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. 

EHR vendor Meditech is adding ambient listening and generative artificial intelligence to its EHR software. 

Epic is building roads and buying farmland around its rural Wisconsin headquarters as the EHR vendor constructs a new campus and welcomes loads of new employees, the Wisconsin State Journal reported Sept. 19.

Oracle unveiled new capabilities for its next-generation EHR Sept. 18 at the company's conference in Las Vegas.

Louisiana-based Ochsner Health is piloting a program in which AI will be used to draft simple responses to patient messages it receives in its portal. 

Oracle launched a new generative artificial intelligence healthcare assistant designed to save clinicians time by responding to voice commands.

Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers wants to pull the plug on the Department of Veterans Affairs' Cerner EHR rollout, calling the project a "complete failure." 

Oracle is effectively using generative artificial intelligence to modernize the Cerner EHR, according to Larry Ellison, the software giant's co-founder and chief technology officer.

Health systems in New York City, Colorado, Georgia and Nevada are seeking IT employees to work on their Epic EHR.

When UPMC and Intermountain Health both said in early September they would be switching to Epic, they continued a trend of the biggest U.S. health systems opting for the nation's largest EHR vendor. Hospital CIOs told Becker's they don't see this changing anytime soon.

In 2018, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs tapped Cerner to overhaul its EHR system. Recently, a series of slowdowns, legislative spats and open letters have again turned attention to the VA's EHR overhaul process.

Springfield, Ill.-based Hospital Sisters Health System restored its Epic EHR system and its patient portal Sept. 12 after an Aug. 27 system outage rendered them offline.  

Honolulu-based Rehabilitation Hospital of the Pacific is adding modules of Oracle Health's EHR to its facilities. 

Here are 18 hospitals and health systems that have implemented new EHR systems or announced plans to do so since Aug. 30:

The Department of Veterans Affairs said it plans to resume work on its rollout of its $16 billion Cerner EHR system in the summer of 2024, after halting the rollout to additional facilities in April due to ongoing problems with the system.  

CT Lin, MD, chief medical information officer at Aurora-based University of Colorado Health, said the amount of time physicians spend after work hours answering patient messages is "not sustainable" but that the health system is not yet ready to begin charging for messages, The Sacramento Bee reported Sept. 13.

Toccoa, Ga.-based Stephens County Hospital CEO Van Loskoski said he is looking into getting a new EMR system and vendor as the hospital looks to have a unified system, WNEG News reported Sept. 11. 

Before Judy Faulkner founded Epic, she asked someone who had spun off a lab business from University of Wisconsin-Madison for tips on how to start a company.

Oracle stock dropped 12 percent on Sept. 12, the steepest drop since 2002, after the software giant reported lower-than-expected revenue, CNBC reported.

As hospitals and health systems look for ways to compensate their physicians for the after work hours spent answering MyChart messages, many have been implementing fees for some messages, but some say this could dissuade patients with chronic diseases from messaging providers, The Sacramento Bee reported Sept. 13.