San Antonio, Texas-based University Health is integrating Hyland's OnBase Smart on FHIR system within its Epic Hyperdrive EHR to help capture unstructured patient data.

Here is how much 12 hospitals and health systems are expected to pay for purchasing, installing and upgrading a new or current electronic health record system in 2023, as reported by Becker's:

In 2024, EHR vendor Meditech told Becker's the company is steering its efforts toward crafting sustainable and scalable solutions to tackle healthcare's most pressing challenges, such as workforce issues, financial pressures and the escalating demand for care.

Cleveland-based University Hospitals expects its Epic install to cost about $400 million, a significant drop from the $600 million it had initially budgeted, according to financial documents published Dec. 14. 

Health systems in Colorado, New York and Washington are seeking Epic talent.

Tampa (Fla) General Hospital will transition three hospitals it acquired from Franklin, Tenn.-based Community Health Systems to Epic, a spokesperson confirmed with Becker's.

Minneapolis-based Allina Health will begin charging patients for some messages received through MyChart, Fox 9 reported Dec. 13. 

EHR giant Epic is utilizing predictive models within its workflows with the goal of allowing clinicians to release operating room time they are not using.

Epic Nexus, a subsidiary of Epic, has become one of the initial organizations to receive the Qualified Health Information Network designation.

Approximately half of Cerner's Millennium customers, focused on automating hospitals much like Epic, are expected to transition to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure by February, Larry Ellison, chief technology officer of Oracle, said in a Dec. 11 earnings call.

Since a new EHR system can be so costly, hospital IT executives told Becker's that the key to a successful EHR install is collaboration and keeping the focus on the patient.

Veradigm CEO Richard Poulton and CFO Leah Jones have resigned from their roles at the request of the board. Mr. Poulton has also stepped down from the board while Ms. Jones will serve in a consulting role to provide business-development related services to the company.

Here are the IT-related job openings at the three main EHR vendors: Epic has 31 open IT-related roles, including positions as an integration engineer, software developer and network engineer. Oracle Health has 112 open IT-related roles, including positions as solution architect, data center technician and project manager. Meditech has zero open IT-related roles.

Typically, when a health system is spending $700 million over 10 years, it is building a new hospital. However, for Worcester, Mass.-based UMass Memorial Health, that price tag was for rehauling its IT system and switching to Epic. 

Epic, the giant EHR company, employs about 13,000 people. Health systems need IT workers. It would seem natural they would compete for talent.

Nashville, Tenn.-based Ardent Health Services has restored access to its Epic EHR system after a Nov. 23 ransomware attack temporarily halted access to the application. 

Charleston, S.C.-based Ralph H. Johnson VA Medical Center is planning to upgrade its data center as part of its Oracle Health EHR rollout, Data Center Dynamics reported Dec. 6.

A U.S. Army veteran filed a lawsuit seeking an undisclosed amount of damages from Oracle Health and the federal governments, alleging that the Department of Veterans Affairs' troubled rollout of the Oracle Health EHR system led to a delay in his cancer diagnosis, The Spokesman-Review reported Dec. 4.

Approximately 20% of individuals listed as alive with a severe illness in their medical records were, in reality, deceased, according to findings published Dec. 4 in JAMA Internal Medicine. 

Epic Systems is integrating patients' experience data into its EHR.