EHRs

When Judy Faulkner was starting Epic in the late 1970s, she got an assist from Neil Pappalardo, the late founder of EHR company Meditech. “He and others at Meditech shared advice with me; for example, how to assign offices, what…

A large Baltimore-area health system with an Oracle Health EHR has deployed the company’s cloud-based patient access platform to modernize its contact center operations. “Historically, health systems supported these workflows using on-premises infrastructure sized for peak demand,” a Feb. 18…

Providence, R.I.-based Care New England has partnered with Rhode Island College in Providence to create a pipeline of digitally educated, EHR-trained nurses and healthcare administrators, Tomas Gregorio, chief digital information officer of the health system, told Becker’s. The partnership, announced…

Health systems that acquired former Dallas-based Steward Health Care hospitals have described significant electronic health record and billing-related costs during transition periods, The Boston Globe reported Feb. 18. Boston-based Boston Medical Center Health System, Providence, R.I.-based Brown University Health and…

Laurel, Miss.-based South Central Regional Medical Center has set the record for the most groups to simultaneously go live on Epic’s diagnostic lab data-exchange platform. Nine organizations signed on to Aura as part of South Central Regional Medical Center’s Jan.…

Northwell Health, HCA Healthcare and UPMC are in the midst of major EHR transitions slated for completion over the next several months and years. Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare, a 190-hospital system, is working to move its entire enterprise to the…

Door County Medical Center in Sturgeon Bay, Wis., has launched an Epic EHR system through a partnership with Hospital Sisters Health System, based in Springfield, Ill., an arrangement that connects patient records across the organizations and reduces paperwork for shared…

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is set to resume its Oracle EHR rollout at four Michigan medical centers in the spring. The system will be deployed in April at VA Detroit Healthcare System, VA Saginaw Healthcare System, VA Ann…

Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare recently expanded its new Meditech EHR to 43 hospitals, with a leader emphasizing that “interoperability is not optional.” The 190-hospital network is continuing a multiyear project to move the enterprise to Meditech’s Expanse platform, with more…

The next phase of the EHR is arriving quickly, and it is no longer just about documentation. Major EHR vendors have accelerated AI rollouts in recent weeks. On Feb. 2, Oracle Health expanded its Clinical AI Agent to automate order…