Health systems have been moving their EHRs to the cloud in recent years to better manage their data. Here are six things to know about two of those migrations, according to a July 8 Amazon blog post: 1. Boston-based Tufts…
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Franklin, Tenn.-based Community Health Systems expects to save $20 million to $40 million over the next year through its use of the Oracle cloud application suite. The 75-hospital system has adopted the software giant’s finance, supply chain and human capital…
As EHR use settles into being the norm across the healthcare industry, organizations are tasked with utilizing their chosen platforms in the most efficient and effective ways. Many are turning to outside firms to optimize their EHR use and workflows…
Hannibal (Mo.) Regional Healthcare System plans to go live with Epic on July 9. The one-hospital system is switching to the new EHR from Veradigm, formerly known as Allscripts. “We ask for your patience as our team gets used to…
Eighty-five percent of hospital EHR users rank workflow efficiency as the top driver of EHR satisfaction, Black Book Research reported. Here are EHR companies ranked by their workflow efficiency scores (out of 10) based on the health IT researcher’s survey,…
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Epic founder and CEO Judy Faulkner compares her health system customers to her children. “When my children were young, they would sometimes ask me, ‘Who do you love best?’” she recalled in a July 7 blog post. “The answer was…
Recent buzz about AI in healthcare has largely highlighted its ability to automate time-consuming, tedious work. There is certainly merit to this pursuit, given that physicians spend about one-third of their working hours in the EHR and on administrative tasks.…
Epic strengthened its international position in the global hospital EHR market in 2024, according to a new report from healthcare research firm KLAS. The report, “Global Acute Care EHR Market Share 2025” is based on EHR sales in 2024 confirmed…
Los Angeles-based UCLA Health has developed an AI model that transforms electronic medical records into text to improve emergency care decisions. The Multimodal Embedding Model for EHR platform converts tabular data into “pseudonotes” that look like clinical documentation, enabling AI…
HHS’ assistant secretary for technology policy/ONC is easing testing requirements on EHR companies. ONC will not enforce a mandate that “health IT developers successfully test the real world use of their technology for interoperability in the type of setting in…