EHRs
It’s an exciting time in healthcare as artificial intelligence has moved from concept to capability, offering new ways to reduce…
Rob Allen doesn’t pretend the pace of change is easy. As president and CEO of Intermountain Health — a six-state system headquartered in Salt Lake City with 34 hospitals, more than 400 clinics, and an insurance arm covering more than…
Atrium Health, part of Charlotte, N.C.-based Advocate Health, said a data security incident involving EHR vendor Oracle Health may have exposed patient information tied to legacy systems used before the organization transitioned to other EHR platforms. The incident affected certain…
Epic founder and CEO Judy Faulkner is enlisting the help of health system executives to ensure the company she started in a basement in the late 1970s never gets sold. As part of her succession plan, the 82-year-old has dedicated…
Bethlehem, Pa.-based St. Luke’s University Health Network has greatly expanded the use and capabilities of Epic since launching the EHR 10 years ago. Here are four things to know about St. Luke’s Epic journey, according to a May 5 blog…
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…