Nonprofit digital healthcare innovation group OCHIN is offering its OCHIN Epic EHR system to rural hospitals across the country.

Here are six facts about Oracle Cerner's place in the EHR market.

Mobile, Ala.-based Ascension Providence Hospital will remain on Cerner as it is sold to USA Health, a spokesperson told Becker's.

Gardner, Mass.-based Heywood Healthcare cited a "lengthy electronic medical record transition" as a factor in its decision to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. 

Several companies and vendors offer EHR systems and services, but companies such as Epic Systems and Oracle Cerner have historically dominated the market. Will this remain true in 2024?

Oracle Cerner, the nation's second-largest EHR vendor by hospital market share, continues to make big moves. Here are seven reported by Becker's in the last 30 days.

Epic has helped pave the way for a tech boom in the Madison, Wis., area and change the community's perception as a "boomerang city," the Badger Herald reported.

Victoria, Texas-based Citizens Medical Center is installing Meditech Expanse as its EHR. 

Research published in March 2022 found that U.S. physicians who use EHRs spend an average of 1.84 hours a day completing documentation outside work hours, and as hospitals and health systems look for ways to alleviate this burden for providers, some are implementing "stupid stuff" initiatives in a bid to simplify the EHR. 

As New York City-based Mount Sinai moves its Epic EHR system to Microsoft's cloud, it has been able to use new technologies such as artificial intelligence to drive greater efficiencies, as well as improve its cybersecurity posture. 

From adding new hospital clients to launching an artificial intelligence-focused partnership with big tech, Meditech has had a busy month.

Honolulu-based Hawaii Pacific Health created an initiative, dubbed "Get Rid of Stupid Stuff," that created simple fixes to tasks within the EHR that clinicians felt were poorly designed, unnecessary or nonsensical, The Harvard Business Review reported Sept. 26. 

Meditech is expanding its artificial intelligence-focused partnership with Google to auto-generate clinical documentation.

Visitors to the conference room adjoining Judy Faulkner's office are greeted by the "culture of Epic," the EHR vendor's founder and CEO wrote.

Veradigm, previously known as Allscripts, said it received a notice from Nasdaq stating that its shares would be delisted due to noncompliance. 

From inking three EHR deals with health systems to reports on its sepsis model accuracy, here are four updates on Epic's operations, software products and partnerships reported by Becker's Hospital Review in the past month:

Hospital IT executives told Becker's that while EHR vendors have begun to adopt innovative technologies, such as generative artificial intelligence, the industry has yet to make the transformative changes that healthcare needs.

Randolph, Vt.-based Gifford Health Care will be switching to Meditech for its EHR after previously using three different systems.

Boston Children's Hospital said it plans to switch to Epic for its EHR in 2024.

San Diego-based Scripps Health said it saw a 50 percent increase in patient messages since the onset of COVID-19, San Diego Business Journal reported Sept. 20.