EHRs

From legal developments to expanding use of its AI tools, Epic continues to evolve across the healthcare landscape. Here are 11 updates on the company’s operations, products and partnerships that Becker’s Hospital Review reported in March:

Ten health systems participating in a national research network have integrated polygenic risk results into their EHRs, enabling more than 70% of high-risk patients to receive direct outreach. The project, part of the eMERGE Genomic Risk Assessment Network, involved nearly…

At Tampa (Fla.) General Hospital, opening a patient chart may soon begin with a question, not a click. The organization is among the first to experiment with Epic’s conversational AI tool, Ask Art. Ask Art functions similarly to consumer AI…

As the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs resumes its Oracle Health EHR rollout, the agency plans to prove doubters wrong because the implementation is “different this time,” a project leader said. The VA is scheduled to install the EHR at…

Trinity Health is notifying patients of a potential unauthorized disclosure of health information involving a third-party participant in an electronic data-sharing network. The Livonia, Mich.-based nonprofit said it learned Jan. 13 from a data exchange partner that patient information may…

As of February, a share of payers and providers had not yet started working toward the application programming interface requirements established by CMS’ interoperability and prior authorization final rule, according to survey results released March 10 by the Workgroup for…

OSF HealthCare Saint Katharine Medical Center in Dixon, Ill., is set to transition to a new electronic health record system April 1, Shaw Local reported March 17. The hospital will go live with an Epic EHR as part of an…

Vanderbilt University Medical Center experienced an EHR outage of approximately four hours, a spokesperson for the Nashville, Tenn.-based health system confirmed to Becker’s. The outage, which was not tied to a cyberattack or ransomware event, caused Vanderbilt University Hospital to…

Aspen (Colo.) Valley Health has launched a partnership with another Colorado hospital to expand access to Epic’s electronic health record platform for rural providers while maintaining local governance. Through Epic’s Community Connect program, Aspen Valley Health will extend its EHR…

Epic and several health systems have filed a stipulated judgment and proposed permanent injunction with telehealth company GuardDog Telehealth that, if entered by the court, would bar the company from accessing certain national health data-sharing networks and require it to…