Mark Loftis, a Cushing, Okla.-based chiropractor and medical supply company owner, has been sentenced to 14 years in prison for a telemedicine-driven scheme that billed federal health programs more than $30 million for durable medical equipment that beneficiaries did not…

Democrats on the House and Senate Veterans’ Affairs committees are demanding that the Department of Veterans Affairs explain a contract modification that raised the ceiling on its Oracle Health EHR deal by an amount the agency redacted in contracting documents.…

For years, the dominant model for health system technology relationships followed a predictable arc. A vendor sold a product, supported an implementation, and largely exited. Whether the tool delivered on its original promise became the health system’s problem to work…

Hospitals and health systems are consolidating electronic health record platforms as they work to unify patient information and reduce the number of systems operating across their organizations. The projects vary in scope, with some health systems replacing dozens of legacy…

Chicago-based Northwestern Medicine has embedded OpenEvidence’s AI clinical decision-support platform in its Epic EHR, giving physicians, nurses, pharmacists and other clinicians systemwide access at the point of care. Clinicians have been able to launch OpenEvidence directly from Epic since Oct.…

Making Epic’s Honor Roll comes with more than recognition, and the health systems that disclose their payouts show how widely the amounts vary. Launched in 2017, the EHR vendor’s voluntary Honor Roll Good Maintenance Grant Program provides financial incentives to…

Most health systems adopting AI are layering new tools onto hospitals, workflows and IT platforms built decades earlier. The University of Texas at Austin is trying something few organizations get the chance to do: design an academic medical center around…

Health systems are not running out of AI products to consider. The harder problem is deciding which ones warrant the attention and in what order. The market for AI tools has outpaced the governance structures most organizations built to assess…

Epic has spent the past several years pulling in many of the country’s largest health systems, a disproportionate share of them leaving Oracle Health. Yet a group of big U.S. health systems still runs Oracle Health as its primary EHR.…

As hospitals and health systems further embed AI into healthcare delivery, they are increasingly appointing chief AI officers or equivalent senior executives with dedicated responsibility for AI governance, implementation and oversight. The growing presence of these roles reflects the industry’s…