EHRs
It’s an exciting time in healthcare as artificial intelligence has moved from concept to capability, offering new ways to reduce…
New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health has developed a firearm safety screening tool that is now available to health systems nationwide through Epic. The tool was integrated into Epic’s May 2026 software release, allowing Epic customers to adopt Northwell’s firearm…
Epic founder and CEO Judy Faulkner said the EHR vendor’s interoperability push over the past two decades has improved care and saved lives. The company launched Care Everywhere in 2008, allowing patients to share their electronic medical records across disparate…
Physicians use Alexa at home and Siri on their iPhones. When will they have the same experience in the hospital or clinic with the EHR? While EHR vendors offer voice activation today, health system IT leaders told Becker’s clinician adoption…
I have spent most of my career building software that helps physicians take care of patients. Too much of what the HCIT industry has built serves billing, compliance, and documentation requirements — all real needs, but not the core need…
Major EHR vendors are racing to dominate healthcare AI, but IT leaders at health systems say their AI strategies extend far beyond their EHR vendors. Epic, Oracle Health and Meditech, the three largest EHR vendors in the U.S., have leaned…
Cleveland Clinic has become the national leader in organ donor registration via MyChart after Epic launched the new feature a year ago. Here are six things to know from a May 27 Epic news release: 1. Cleveland Clinic has had…
Epic is continuing to grow its hospital EHR market share lead, though its gains weren’t as pronounced in 2025 as in previous years. Here are 14 things to know about the EHR giant’s run of success: 1. Over 325 million…
Interoperability has been a priority in healthcare for decades, but for many organizations, the journey remains unfinished. In a webinar hosted by Becker’s Healthcare and featuring leaders from across the industry, panelists examined the persistent gaps in data exchange and…
Sioux Falls, S.D.-based Avera Health plans to go live with Epic on May 30. The health system, which has over 40 hospitals across South Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska and North Dakota, said in July 2024 it was installing the new…
Epic continues to expand its footprint across health systems through new implementations, product updates and partnerships. In the past 30 days, organizations have gone live on Epic, adopted new artificial intelligence tools within the EHR, and participated in federal data-sharing…