EHRs
It’s an exciting time in healthcare as artificial intelligence has moved from concept to capability, offering new ways to reduce…
Hershey, Pa.-based Penn State Health will launch Epic across the health system Oct. 31, moving to a unified EHR and billing system. The transition will also introduce Epic’s MyChart patient portal, replacing five separate patient portals with a single platform,…
The EHR is increasingly becoming the place where health systems encounter, deploy and build artificial intelligence. Recent moves from Epic, Oracle Health and OpenAI, along with deployments at health systems across the country, show AI moving deeper into the systems…
The American Medical Association is urging CMS to maintain its Jan. 1, 2027, electronic prior authorization deadline. CMS broadened prior authorization reform efforts — and built upon payers’ existing commitments — to include providers and EHR vendors. Application programming interface…
Oracle Health spent the first half of 2026 accelerating its push to remake healthcare technology through AI, expanding its footprint across the Department of Veterans Affairs and introducing new interoperability tools, even as the company cut hundreds of jobs tied…
For some health systems, moving to Epic is becoming as much an application-consolidation project as an EHR project. Recent Becker’s reporting shows health systems using Epic implementations and optimization efforts to retire dozens or even hundreds of legacy and third-party…
Philadelphia-based Penn Medicine has launched a multiyear initiative to bring Lancaster (Pa.) General Health and affiliated entities onto its shared electronic health record platform. The PennChart Integration & Expansion Program, or PIE, will move Lancaster General Health and its affiliated…
Valhalla, N.Y.-based Westchester Medical Center Health Network is in the middle of an Epic EHR implementation that’s expected to do more than unify patient records — it will eliminate 88 separate software applications the health system has accumulated over years…
East Adams Rural Healthcare, a Ritzville, Wash.-based rural emergency hospital, has selected Azalea Health as its new EHR vendor. East Adams moved off its previous enterprise EHR platform after determining the system was too complex and costly for an organization…
The House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs has signed and served subpoenas compelling Oracle executive chair Larry Ellison and CEO Mike Sicilia to testify about the company’s $27 billion VA EHR contract. The committee voted 19-0 to force the testimony after…
CMS’ interoperability rule will require many insurers to have application programming interface capabilities by Jan. 1, 2027. The clock is ticking, but some health plans are ahead of the curve. CMS is seeking patient access, provider access, provider directory, payer-to-payer…