Hospitals and health systems shouldn't "nickel and dime" patients by charging for MyChart messages as it could discourage them from seeking care, the co-directors of the Center for Patient Partnerships wrote in the Wisconsin State Journal.

New York City-based NYU Langone Health is implementing language interpretation company Voyce's app into its Epic EHR system.

Here are the top five EHR vendors for integrated practice management for health systems, as ranked by Black Book Research.

The Sequoia Project, an EHR interoperability project that counts Epic and the American Medical Association among its founding members, has named a health IT leader from Palo Alto, Calif.-based Stanford Health Care to its board.

Chicago-based CommonSpirit Health has robust data sharing and collection to address social determinants of health in the communities it serves, ONC said in a new report.

EHR vendor Epic's headquarters in Verona, Wis., is complete with castles, wizards and dragons, WIProud reported.

A U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs official said the rollout of the Oracle Cerner EHR could be delayed further because of its research functionality and academic affiliations, FedScoop reported Feb. 22.

After scouring more than 373,000 diagnoses in EHRs, researchers at Epic found that the COVID-19-induced drop in cancer screenings did not lead to a significant spike in breast, cervical or colon cancer cases.

State funding for an Epic EHR at Augusta University's Medical College of Georgia was cut from $105 million to $50 million, WRDW reported Feb. 21. 

Researchers from Cleveland Clinic and Cleveland-based MetroHealth System are using a $3.14 million grant to create "digital twins" from EHR data to reduce health disparities.

Miami-based Nicklaus Children's Hospital renewed its Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society Stage Seven award, a designation that was given to the pediatric hospital for the effective use of its Oracle Cerner EHR.

St. Louis Park, Minn.-based Care Counseling, a behavioral health system, has selected Opus EHR as its EHR vendor.

Pacific Dental Services and High Point (N.C.) University are partnerting to expand the use of the Epic EHR system to the university's dental school and associated dental practices.

Health system interoperability is seeing improvement, as 88 percent of organizations report that they are involved in an EHR data exchange, according to a January report from ONC. 

Here are three hospitals and health systems that have implemented new EHR systems or announced plans to do so since March 31:

More than 7 in 10 healthcare organizations use EHRs to collect information on social determinants of health, but more standardization is needed to fully realize the potential of this data collection, according to a February report from the American Health Information Management Association.

Livonia, Mich.-based Trinity Health made a huge investment in a platform dubbed TogetherCare, powered by Epic, and for good reason.

The Department of Veterans Affairs is delaying the Oracle Cerner EHR rollout at the VA Ann Arbor (Mich.) Healthcare System until late 2023 or early 2024, FedScoop reported Feb. 16. 

Bellaire, Texas-based Harris Health System has extended its Epic EHR to the roughly 10,000 inmates in Houston's Harris County Jail.

Electronic health record vendors Epic, Oracle Cerner and Meditech are partnering with startups and various healthcare companies to upgrade their offerings for hospitals and health systems.