EHRs

Trinity Health, a 92 hospital system headquartered in Livonia, Mich., is nearing completion of its $800 million EHR rollout and expects to be the largest single‑instance Epic user in the country next year, according to CEO Mike Slubowski. Mr. Slubowski…

Mt. San Rafael Hospital and Clinics in Trinidad, Colo., is moving to an Oracle Health EHR system. The 25-bed critical access hospital will implement the Oracle Health Foundation EHR along with the company’s Clinical AI Agent, a voice-driven tool that…

The Department of Veterans Affairs has not fully implemented most recommendations from the Government Accountability Office related to its EHR modernization program, GAO officials told Congress. Carol Harris, GAO’s director of information technology and cybersecurity, presented the findings during testimony…

Oracle’s new world headquarters in Nashville, Tenn., will cost $4.5 billion, the Nashville Business Journal reported. The price tag for the 80-acre project with 2.7 million square feet of building space was previously estimated to be $1.2 billion and $2…

EHRs need to be interoperable, secure and automated for healthcare to thrive, according to Seema Verma, executive vice president and general manager of Oracle Health and Life Sciences. Here are five EHR notes from her Dec. 9 blog post on…

Seventeen healthcare organizations using Epic’s software connected to a federally backed health information network in November. The organizations began participating in the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement in November, an Epic spokesperson told Becker’s. TEFCA, a government-led initiative launched…

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit Dec. 10 against EHR vendor Epic, accusing the company of monopolizing the EHR market and engaging in deceptive practices that restrict parents’ access to their minor children’s medical records. The lawsuit claims…

UT Health Austin (Texas) intends to go live with a new inpatient Epic EHR on the same day it opens its new multibillion-dollar academic medical center. With the net-new implementation, the health system will be able to easily adopt many…

St. Louis-based BJC HealthCare said it is following state and federal privacy laws after misleading social media claims regarding parental MyChart access, First Alert 4 reported. A viral post asserted that the health system revokes parents’ access to their children’s…

Fifty-seven hospitals and health systems are calling on HHS to drop a proposed HIPAA security update they say would impose undue financial and time hardships on them. In a letter to HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the organizations said…