The Department of Veterans Affairs has not established goals to assess user satisfaction with its new Cerner EHR system, a May 18 Government Accountability Office report found. 

Chapel Hill, N.C.-based UNC Health will pilot Epic and Microsoft's generative artificial intelligence tool that automatically drafts message responses.

Epic continued to pull away from the competition in 2022, adding dozens of hospitals and thousands of hospital beds to its EHR market share, a May 23 KLAS Research report found.

Leading health systems from across the country such as Stanford Health Care and Mayo Clinic have pledged to use Epic's software to share health information with the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement. 

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Spokane, Wash.-based Mann-Grandstaff VA Medical Center said it has a projected $35 million budget deficit due largely in part to its troubled Cerner EHR system, which in turn is forcing the hospital to cut staff, The Spokesman-Review reported May 21. 

Below are three health systems and hospitals that have implemented or announced plans to implement an EHR system from Meditech, as reported by Becker's since March 8:

Since Oracle completed its $28.4 billion acquisition of Cerner in June 2022, the tech giant has made multiple changes to Cerner's leadership, software offerings, employee count and operations. 

Closing the "evidence gap" to allow providers to deliver more informed care will require better coordination between physicians and data scientists with access to years of patient records, data leaders from Palo Alto, Calif.-based Stanford Health Care and Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic wrote May 17 in Harvard Business Review.

Oracle has reportedly cut 3,000 jobs from Cerner, with layoffs hitting sectors such as marketing, engineering, accounting, legal and product, Business Today reported May 18.

Artificial intelligence voice assistant company Suki has integrated with EHR vendor Epic Systems, allowing customers to use its ambient note-generating capabilities.

Alliance, Neb.-based Box Butte General Hospital went live with its new Meditech EHR system on May 1, Alliance-Times Herald reported May 17.

The Department of Veterans Affair has renegotiated its $10 billion contract with Oracle, which dramatically increases the company's accountability for the troubled VA Cerner EHR system. 

Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare is seeking out clinical informatics experts that can help install the health system's new Meditech Expanse EHR system. 

From teaming up with Zoom to integrate telehealth capabilities into its EHR software to partnering with the FDA to develop AI tools that can extract clinical notes from EHRs, here is the latest in Cerner partnerships in 2023: 

EHRs erode the well-being of healthcare teams, taking away from their human needs such as developing relationships and building trust, a study in JAMA Network Open found.

VA Roseburg (Ore.) Health Care System is one of the few VA medical facilities to go live with the Cerner EHR system, but due to its ongoing troubles, it will reset the system to fix its issues, The News-Review reported May 12. 

NextGen Healthcare, a provider of EHR software, is facing seven lawsuits after a March data breach compromised the protected health information of more than 1 million patients, Bloomberg Law reported May 12. 

Mishawaka, Ind.-based Franciscan Health has added electronic check-in options to its Epic EHR system.

Newmarket, N.H.-based Community Health Access Network, a network that delivers training and assistance to 250 providers across New Hampshire, Vermont and Texas, is tapping athenaOne as its new EHR partner.