The Veterans Health Administration has awarded a renewal contract to maintain and modernize its dialysis electronic medical record software to health IT company Document Storage Solutions.

Epic Systems currently has 6,520 job openings, according to Linkedin. 

Chuck Christian has been working on healthcare data exchange and interoperability for decades.

EHR company Medical Mime has onboarded an unnamed Montana behavioral health system as a client.

Here is how much four health systems are expected to pay for the cost of purchasing and installing a new electronic health record system:

Behavioral health company Eleos Health and visual EHR company The Echo Group are partnering to integrate Eleos Health's augmented intelligence into Echo's clinical billing and EHR systems.

An assessment from the American Academy of Family Physicians' Innovation Lab found that Elation Health's EHR reduced burnout and improved physician satisfaction.

Oakland, Md.-based Garrett Regional Medical Center will receive $650,000 in federal funding to purchase an Epic EHR system, Cumberland-Times News reported Sept. 9. 

Oracle closed its $28.4 billion acquisition of Cerner in June and the company contributed $1.4 billion to Oracle's revenue in the first quarter of 2023, which ended Aug. 31.

Healthcare analytics company Milliman MedInsight's methodologies and analytics will be  integrated into Epic's new Value-Based Performance Management module.

New Oracle Health general manager Travis Dalton plans to look beyond traditional EHR functions in helping hospitals and health systems automate, he said in a Sept. 13 company blog post.

After a physician at Chicago-based Rush University Medical Center noticed he was having to enter his login and password whenever he sent an electronic prescription through its Epic EHR, he went to administrators to change the system, helping save Rush providers time, the American Medical Association reported Sept. 13. 

Congressional Democrats plan to push for a national patient identifier system in the upcoming legislative session, Politico reported Sept. 14.

Below are five health systems that launched a new Epic EHR system or announced plans to do so since Aug. 2. 

The Department of Veterans Affairs is looking to purchase Amazon Web Services' Red Hat and ENCOR training for staff to better equip them for its EHR migration to Oracle Cerner.

Washington County (Iowa) Hospital and Clinics will receive a $753,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to install Epic's EHR system, KCII Radio reported Sept. 13. 

Epic aims to speed up clinical trials and therapy development with a new life sciences program.

McLeansboro, Ill.-based Hamilton Memorial Hospital District is transitioning to the Epic EHR system on Sept. 17.

Software giant Oracle reported an 18 percent jump in 2023 first quarter revenue to $11.45 billion.

Cody (Wyo.) Regional Health will go live with Epic's EHR system on Oct. 1.