EHRs

Oracle is cutting thousands of jobs as the company shifts its investments to AI infrastructure, CNBC reported March 31. The software giant, which acquired EHR company Cerner in 2022 and dubbed it Oracle Health, started notifying workers of the reductions…

Sacramento, Calif.-based Sutter Health has become the first health system to go live with Epic’s Emmie, an AI chatbot for patients. Emmie answers patients’ health questions “within the privacy and context of their medical record,” according to a March 31…

Clewiston, Fla.-based Hendry Regional Medical Center has selected Meditech’s Expanse EHR, replacing multiple legacy systems with a single platform. The critical access hospital will transition from four disparate systems to a unified patient record designed to improve care coordination and…

Charlotte, N.C.-based Advocate Health has been using Epic’s new Agent Factory, which creates and monitors agentic AI tools that reason, decide and act within workflows. “By combining Epic’s Agent Factory Platform capabilities with Advocate Health’s scale, clinical insight, and commitment…

In March, Oracle Health expanded the capabilities of its note generation tool and moved more hospitals onto its EHR, readying to resume its U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs rollout. “The ultimate signal of success is that the organization moves faster…

As health systems increasingly standardize on platforms like Epic and Workday, Springfield, Mo.-based CoxHealth took an aggressive approach: implementing both within months — without slowing operations. The six-hospital network pulled off the feat, going live with the enterprise resource planning…

Laurel, Miss.-based South Central Regional Medical Center is spending about $115 million on a new Epic EHR over the next 10 years to boost data-sharing in its region, improve the patient experience and help with physician recruitment, executives told Becker’s.…

Titusville, Fla.-based Parrish Healthcare has inked a deal with Meditech to implement its Expanse EHR across the health system’s 208-bed hospital and ambulatory clinics. The health system said it looks forward to enhanced mobile and AI capabilities, an improved user…

Baton Rouge, La.-based FMOL Health was an early adopter of Epic’s new AI scribe after finding the application accurate and cost-effective and working with the EHR vendor to make improvements, a leader told Becker’s. The nine-hospital system signed an enterprise…

Health IT leaders increasingly see vendor consolidation as central to achieving interoperability, but most organizations lack the tools to fully realize it, a March 24 survey from CliniComp found. The findings are based on a survey of CIOs conducted by…