EHRs
It’s an exciting time in healthcare as artificial intelligence has moved from concept to capability, offering new ways to reduce…
The Department of Veterans Affairs plans to expand its contract with Oracle Health past its current ceiling, already near $10 billion, and extend the deal by three years, FedScoop reported Aug. 12. VA reached its contract ceiling sooner than planned…
Bethlehem, Pa.-based St. Luke’s University Health Network and UnitedHealthcare have automated claim status updates for 88% of the claims exchanged between the two organizations, using Epic’s Payer Platform, according to Epic’s newly released 2026-2027 Almanac. The two organizations turned on…
Oracle Health’s new AI-powered patient portal is now generally available to patients across the U.S. The Oracle Health Patient Portal integrates directly with the Oracle Health electronic health record, giving patients access to their medical records without uploading data into…
With its Open@Epic conference, Epic wanted to reach software developers who had never worked with the company before, according to founder and CEO Judy Faulkner. Its previous developer events brought customers to work directly with Epic’s own engineers, starting with…
The Sequoia Project, the Recognized Coordinating Entity for the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement, updated its TEFCA Governing Council roster Aug. 10, naming 19 representatives from health systems, health information networks, technology vendors and federal agencies. TEFCA is the…
Northeast Georgia Health System has become the fifth health system in the country to deploy Epic’s Chart with Art ambient AI tool for nursing documentation. A pilot group of 15 nurses and two patient care technicians is testing the technology…
The lawsuit Epic filed against Health Gorilla in January is on track to join a newly centralized multidistrict litigation over the data-sharing company’s alleged misuse of patient records. Health Gorilla is a Coral Gables, Fla.-based company that connects healthcare organizations…
Health systems are investing tens of millions, and in some cases more than $100 million, in Epic projects ranging from new EHR implementations to major rebuilds of existing systems. Here are the costs of four recent projects, as reported by…
Hospital executives have had little room to breathe when it comes to big investments. Median hospital operating margins were still hovering near 2% through early 2026, squeezed by rising expenses, an eroding payer mix and softening patient volumes, and finance…
Minneapolis-based Children’s Minnesota is preparing for an Oct. 3 Epic go-live, but the decision behind the implementation was more than a decade in the making. The health system ran Oracle Health in its hospitals and eClinicalWorks in affiliated ambulatory clinics…