New York City-based NYU Langone Health has launched an EHR feature designed to help clinicians see patients as individuals, not just medical cases. The initiative, called “About Me,” invites patients to share personal details that appear directly in the health…
EHRs / Interoperability
Three health systems have apparently been ensnared in a 2024 hack of EHR vendor Veradigm, formerly known as Allscripts, DataBreaches.net reported. In the December data breach, a cybercriminal used a credential obtained from a Veradigm customer to enter a Veradigm…
Epic founder and CEO Judy Faulkner didn’t get an MBA — and she said the EHR giant wouldn’t look the same if she had. “If I had gotten an MBA, they would likely have taught me how to get venture…
Hospitals are beginning to rethink how new technology reaches the bedside. Instead of introducing tools and workflows from the top down, many health systems are starting earlier in the process — asking nurses to help design the systems they’ll eventually…
Sharp HealthCare has appointed Tommy Korn, MD, as its first chief spatial computing officer — a first-of-its-kind role in healthcare designed to integrate immersive technology into clinical care. When Dr. Korn waved hello during a recent video call, his real…
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An outage at Microsoft’s cloud computing platform affected Epic’s MyChart patient portal, the Independent reported. DownDetector, a crowdsourced interruption-reporting site, showed a big increase in errors Oct. 29 for Microsoft Azure, with MyChart one of the impacted services, according to…
Hospitals are swimming in metrics — quality scores, throughput data, readmission rates, to name a few — but for those responsible for steering a facility’s digital transformation, one question looms above the rest: How to know when technology is actually…
Marshfield (Wis.) Clinic Health System said it responded quickly after a cyberattack on its health plan’s pharmacy benefit manager. Security Health Plan uses MedImpact, which was reportedly hacked by Russian-based ransomware group Qilin. “As soon as we were alerted of…
Oracle Health, the nation’s second-largest EHR vendor by hospital market share, had a busy October with a new product launch and system rollout plans. Here are seven updates on the company in the past month: 1. EHR vendors like Oracle…
New York City-based Mount Sinai Tisch Cancer Center has launched real-time data integration between its EHR and clinical trial platforms. The new system automates the transfer of structured clinical data from Epic into sponsor electronic data capture systems, cutting the…