EHRs
It’s an exciting time in healthcare as artificial intelligence has moved from concept to capability, offering new ways to reduce…
Democrats on the House and Senate Veterans’ Affairs committees are demanding that the Department of Veterans Affairs explain a contract modification that raised the ceiling on its Oracle Health EHR deal by an amount the agency redacted in contracting documents.…
For the past few years, the question of who would eventually lead Epic after its founder seemed to have a likely answer. Sumit Rana, the Verona, Wis.-based EHR vendor’s president and a developer who joined the company in 1998, was…
Hospitals and health systems are consolidating electronic health record platforms as they work to unify patient information and reduce the number of systems operating across their organizations. The projects vary in scope, with some health systems replacing dozens of legacy…
Making Epic’s Honor Roll comes with more than recognition, and the health systems that disclose their payouts show how widely the amounts vary. Launched in 2017, the EHR vendor’s voluntary Honor Roll Good Maintenance Grant Program provides financial incentives to…
Epic has spent the past several years pulling in many of the country’s largest health systems, a disproportionate share of them leaving Oracle Health. Yet a group of big U.S. health systems still runs Oracle Health as its primary EHR.…
Pittsburgh-based UPMC is working through patient portal, workflow and technical issues following the latest phase of its transition to Epic, TribLive reported Oct. 7. Since the go-live, patients have complained of trouble logging in to the MyUPMC portal, missing information…
Charleston, W.Va.-based Vandalia Health is moving its 16 hospitals and more than 220 ambulatory sites onto Epic, consolidating an EHR footprint that swelled to 27 systems during four years of rapid growth. Vice President and CIO Daniel Stross told Becker’s…
The two most influential figures in the hospital EHR market have reached almost opposite conclusions about how to win it. Judy Faulkner, founder and CEO of Epic, built the nation’s largest EHR vendor by refining a single integrated system, without…
Verona, Wis.-based Epic has received FDA clearance for Deterioration Index Version 2, an updated version of its EHR-embedded tool that flags hospitalized patients at risk of clinical decline. The FDA cleared the software in September through the 510(k) pathway. The…
Health systems are stretched thin. Budgets are tight, turnover is high, and workflow changes arrive faster than education teams can keep up. Yet many training programs still rely on approaches built for a different era: time-intensive, expensive to maintain, and…