Samaritan Medical Center in Watertown, N.Y., has received a $20 million grant to upgrade its EHR system. The Statewide Health Care Facility Transformation Grant will allow the hospital to transition to a single, unified platform across its clinics and specialty…
EHRs / Interoperability
EHRs continued to be one of the largest financial investments for health systems in 2025, as several major organizations switched to new platforms over the past year. Here are the 10 most expensive EHR projects that were completed, started or…
Ocean Springs, Miss.-based Singing River Health System said it recently took some IT systems offline after detecting a cybersecurity incident in its “early stages.” The three-hospital system shut down its internet and MyChart access Dec. 23 in response to the…
Epic is collaborating with Philadelphia-based Penn Medicine to enhance outpatient care by embedding new technologies throughout clinical settings. In a LinkedIn post, Epic said it is working with Penn Medicine to develop a more integrated, technology-enabled clinic aimed at improving…
Three health systems reported that patient information may have been involved in a data security incident tied to Cerner, the EHR vendor now known as Oracle Health. Lake Regional Health System (Osage Beach, Mo.), OSF Saint Clare Medical Center (Princeton,…
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From a looming legal challenge to one of the largest single-instance Epic rollouts in the country, here are key updates on Epic’s strategy, customer deployments and industry relationships, reported by Becker’s Hospital Review in December:
New Brunswick, N.J.-based Saint Peter’s Healthcare System selected Epic as its partner for a new centralized EHR platform. The system said Epic will support improvements in patient care by enabling full access to an integrated record across all care settings,…
Looking ahead to 2026, Boston-based Athenahealth is preparing to roll out a reimagined EHR experience centered on AI, with a stated goal of reducing clinician and staff burden while improving revenue cycle performance beyond industry benchmarks. The company said it…
Three U.S. senators have penned a letter to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs expressing apprehensions over the resumption of the agency’s EHR rollout in 2026. The project has been on hold amid technical and patient well-being issues, but the…
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Dec. 22 proposed a rule that would significantly reduce federal health IT certification requirements, revise information-blocking policies and establish a framework to support AI-enabled interoperability. The proposed rule, Health Data, Technology,…