Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic is taking a different approach with AI and is leaning into its clinicians so that they can develop their own AI capabilities, MITSloan reported March 27. 

OhioHealth Van Wert Hospital has spent $12 million to upgrade its EHR system to CareConnect. 

A watchdog has found that the Department of Veteran Affairs' Oracle Health EHR system has had scheduling errors and pharmacy-related coding problems, which have led to patient safety incidents.

From developing over 60 generative AI models to making its software available on Apple platforms, here are 10 updates on Epic's operations, software products and partnerships reported by Becker's Hospital Review in March:

Grand Rapids, Mich.-based Corewell Health has been busy integrating technology platforms to support enterprise goals of better quality and cost-effectiveness.

A key strategy for access leaders looking to reach more patients is to think “EHR Plus.” 

Expert insights on EHR optimization with Christina Berg, RN MHA The Electronic Health Record (EHR) is a critical tool for healthcare organizations, but maximizing its value requires careful consideration of user adoption.

Epic makes sure to have the latest technology, such as generative artificial intelligence, available from the outset of its EHR implementations, a company leader told Becker's.

Racial and ethnic minorities experienced lower response rates from attending physicians for patient portal messages, but higher response rates from registered nurses, indicating potential disparities in triage prioritization, a March 18 study published in JAMA Network Open found. 

A San Jose, Calif.-based Equinix data center used by Epic experienced a "power issue" that led to a brief outage March 20.

CMS is aiming to solve one of healthcare's most perplexing — and time-consuming — issues: the dreaded prior authorization.

Palo Alto, Calif.-based Stanford Health Care researchers found that using AI in the EHR to assist clinicians with answering patient messages has been able to reduce clerical burden and lower feelings of burnout.

Iowa City-based UI Health Care's new campus plans to go live with an Epic EHR system in May.

Physicians are billing for emails because the deluge of patient portal communications is causing "burnout" and "moral injury" while, at the same time, clinicians are facing declining reimbursement, two physician leaders wrote in Time.

Epic is betting that generative artificial intelligence will be the future of healthcare.

EHR vendor Meditech will embed Microsoft's Nuance DAX Copilot into its Expanse EHR platform. 

Even though Oracle Health is one of the largest EHR vendors in the world, the company does way more than that, its general manager says.

Georgetown, S.C.-based Tidelands Health has completed its $40 million transition to an Epic EHR system. 

Oracle reported a 7% bump in total third quarter revenue to $13.3 billion, but Cerner continues to challenge the tech giant's bottom line.

Meditech is adding ambient listening technology to its Expanse EHR system.