EHRs

Fourteen clients have renewed their contracts with Altera Digital Health for its Sunrise EHR. The health systems that signed multiyear contracts for Sunrise include Phoenix Children’s, St. Mary’s, Ohio-based Grand Lake Health System and New Britain, Conn.-based Hospital for Special…

Epic is rolling out disease outbreak alerts in spring 2026 to flag when conditions such as measles or salmonella increase above expected levels. The Health Alerts feature will include data down to the county level, according to a Feb. 24…

Oracle Health has launched a device validation program aimed at standardizing how medical devices connect to health systems and electronic health records. The company introduced the Oracle Health Device Validation Program in the U.S. on Feb. 25. The initiative is…

Most health systems continue their digital transformation journeys with investments in innovations like virtual care platforms, AI-powered clinical tools, and remote patient monitoring innovations. But as investment accelerates, health system leaders are increasingly tasked with substantiating the return on that…

From rolling out AI Charting to being named the top Overall Health System Suite by KLAS, here are nine updates on Epic’s operations, software products and partnerships Becker’s Hospital Review reported in February:

Health systems have been demoing and exploring the adoption of Epic’s new AI scribe that will likely reshape the ambient clinical documentation market. Epic released AI Charting in early February, intensifying competition in the growing market for AI tools that…

If healthcare IT were golf, CIOs would take a few mulligans. Choosing and installing an EHR is one of the biggest, most complicated decisions IT leaders will ever make. Reflecting on their implementations, four executives shared hard-earned lessons around training…

Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tenn., has identified more than 70 medical conditions that consistently preceded Alzheimer’s disease diagnoses using EHR data from two large patient databases. Researchers analyzed longitudinal EHRs from the MarketScan database of more than 150…

Mount Gilead, Ohio-based OhioHealth Morrow County Hospital has gone live with Epic as part of a $6 million IT investment. The hospital adopted Epic on Feb. 22 as its parent system, Columbus-based OhioHealth, brings newly acquired facilities onto its EHR,…

HHS’ Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy is offering $500,000 for health IT developers to turn raw EHR data into actionable insights for clinicians and patients. The EHIgnite Challenge, which launched Feb. 23, will grant $10,000 to each of nine winners…