EHRs

Healthcare providers and EHR vendors have joined a CMS pledge to streamline the prior authorization process. The agency previously brought the nation’s largest payers together to address the issue, cutting more than 6 million prior authorizations and readying for the…

A Wisconsin judge has dismissed a lawsuit against Epic that challenged the EHR vendor’s noncompete agreements. Life sciences tech firm Veeva Systems sued Epic in January, claiming the EHR company’s employment clauses — such as not working for competitors for…

While Epic regularly picks up health system clients from other EHR vendors, the company says it has only ever lost one customer. And that organization came back a year later. “I think they thought that the other [EHR] system might…

With nearly 18 million U.S. employees, healthcare is the largest private-sector employer in the nation, yet the industry’s workforce has consistently been characterized by shortages, stress and burnout, according to a report from the National Center for Health Workforce Analysis…

The resumption of the Oracle Health implementation at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has so far been “phenomenal,” the agency’s secretary told lawmakers. The VA relaunched the EHR at four Michigan medical centers in April after a three-year hiatus…

As health systems look to ease documentation burdens and return clinicians’ focus to the bedside, Baton Rouge, La.-based FMOL Health is rapidly scaling Epic’s ambient AI charting tool after an early pilot showed strong clinician buy-in. The health system is…

Michigan Medicine is notifying about 551 patients of a privacy incident involving unauthorized access to medical information through a national health information exchange after its EHR vendor Epic flagged unusual activity. The Ann Arbor-based academic medical center said it was…

As a result of implementing Epic, Lewiston, Maine-based Central Maine Healthcare is planning to lay off 38 IT workers, Sun Journal reported April 28. A spokesperson for the health system system told the publication that the reductions are tied to…

FMOL Health has launched a systemwide rollout of Epic’s AI-powered charting tool aimed at reducing administrative burden and improving patient care. The Baton Rouge, La.-based health system is deploying Epic AI Charting, known as “Chart with Art,” across its hospitals…

Epic Systems was named to Time’s list of the most influential health and life sciences companies of 2026. The ranking, released April 27, is part of Time’s expanded TIME100 Companies franchise, which now includes sector-specific lists highlighting organizations shaping their…