EHRs

Milford (Mass.) Regional went live with UMass Memorial Health’s Epic EHR system April 1. Milford Regional joined UMass Memorial Health in 2024. A spokesperson for UMass Memorial Health told Becker’s the Epic go-live was “one of many significant integration milestones…

CMS plans to host a virtual event for healthcare interoperability executives this summer. The seventh-annual CMS & Health Level Seven International Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources Connectathon takes place July 14-16. The gathering will comprise “healthcare interoperability leaders, implementers and innovators…

Epic has launched a new initiative to track health conditions at the county level and issue alerts when unusual trends emerge. The feature, called Health Alerts, uses statistical models applied to real-world medical records to identify when rates of specific…

Health systems using Epic are the first in the U.S. to begin sharing patient records with the Social Security Administration through a new federal interoperability framework. The connection is enabled through the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement, or TEFCA,…

UF Health in Gainesville, Fla., has gone live with a modernization of its Epic EHR system, a move executives say will help standardize workflows, reduce variation and improve care delivery across the system. Stephen Motew, MD, president and CEO of…

Veradigm has named Christian Greyenbuhl its next CFO. Mr. Greyenbuhl joins the company from Ministry Brands, which provides software tools for churches and nonprofits, according to an April 6 Veradigm news release. He has served as Ministry Brands’ CFO since…

Epic is inviting app developers and other healthcare experts to its headquarters in Wisconsin to build a more connected data ecosystem. The second annual Open@Epic conference will take place in October in Verona, Wis. Since the first event, held in…

The conversation around safe and effective use of artificial intelligence (AI) has largely focused on issues like bias in training data and bad outputs like hallucinations. But as pilots evolve into enterprise-wide deployments, our industry cannot overlook how human users…

Health systems are beginning to operationalize a new layer of AI within Epic, with early deployments spanning patient communication, clinical documentation, workflow automation and decision support. This offers a clearer view into how the EHR is evolving into an embedded…

Grand Marais, Minn.-based North Shore Health is examining whether to swap EHR vendors, WTIP reported. The one-hospital system uses Meditech but is evaluating a switch to Epic through a Community Connect partnership with a larger system, according to the March…