EHRs

A federal judge has ruled that some complaints against Change Healthcare over the 2024 cyberattack can move forward. Judge Donovan Frank decided Dec. 19 to allow some claims to proceed against the UnitedHealth Group claims processing subsidiary and dismiss others,…

Orlando (Fla.) Health is consolidating its newly acquired mainland U.S. hospitals to a single instance of Epic to save money from “economies of scale,” its IT chief told Becker’s. The $9.9 billion organization launched the EHR at three Florida facilities…

As cyber incidents and system outages become more frequent across healthcare, chief nursing informatics officers say their biggest EHR reliability fears are less about downtime itself and more about what happens to nursing care when digital systems degrade without clear…

HCA Healthcare UK has implemented Meditech Expanse, a cloud-based EHR system, across its 11 acute care facilities and dozens of outpatient locations. The unified platform provides clinicians with a consolidated view of patients’ health records, enhancing safety and improving workflow…

Raleigh, N.C.-based WakeMed Health & Hospitals will open four Rezilient with WakeMed CloudClinics in January through a partnership with hybrid care provider Rezilient Health. The clinics will offer same-day primary and specialty care consults using Rezilient’s telehealth-enabled CloudClinic model, which…

The Justice Department has agreed to narrow a subpoena issued to Pittsburgh-based UPMC, saying it will now seek only anonymized patient medical records after patients raised privacy concerns in court. The subpoena is part of a broader federal investigation into…

Memphis, Tenn.-based Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare is the latest health system to report being impacted by an early 2025 data breach involving Oracle Health. In April, the EHR vendor notified the six-hospital system about the January hack of legacy Cerner…

CMS launched an interoperability pledge program in July to spur information-sharing efforts. But how does it differ from TEFCA, aka the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement? Steven Posnack, principal deputy assistant secretary for technology policy at HHS, addressed that…

Nearly 8 in 10 acute care nurses say they lose time each week to unproductive charting, and those facing the heaviest documentation burdens are significantly more likely to experience burnout and consider leaving their jobs, according to a Dec. 16…

Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., is urging 10 of the largest electronic health record vendors to give patients more control over who can access their health information. The move follows multiple warnings from the Department of Defense’s inspector general about potential…