EHRs

A bipartisan group of U.S. senators has reintroduced a bill designed to strengthen the nation’s healthcare cybersecurity. The Health Care Cybersecurity and Resilience Act of 2025 would provide cyberattack prevention grants and training to healthcare organizations and require cybersecurity standards…

Bethlehem, Pa.-based St. Luke’s University Health Network has partnered with Microsoft to boost cybersecurity across its 13-hospital and 67-practice footprint. The health system rationalized its security tool portfolio and increased its data visibility after adding new solutions from the tech…

The early 2025 hack of Oracle Health may have affected as many as 80 hospitals, The Beacon in Kansas City, Mo., reported. Health systems have been notifying patients about the data breach of the EHR company’s legacy Cerner environment one…

Epic founder and CEO Judy Faulkner’s succession plan includes three health system chief executives who will ensure the company stays privately held and does not get acquired after she’s gone, she said Dec. 4 at a Forbes conference. “We have…

Nurses at Sacramento, Calif.-based Sutter Health used to document every time a patient was watching TV or on their phones. No longer. In fact, the 27-hospital system has saved nurses 400,000 EHR clicks a day, the equivalent of 110 hours,…

Noblesville, Ind.-based Riverview Health’s plan to upgrade its EHR system led to a broader management agreement with Fort Wayne, Ind.-based Parkview Health, leaders from both organizations told The Hamilton County Reporter in a Dec. 4 story. Riverview is set to…

CMS relief funding for healthcare providers affected by the Change Healthcare ransomware attack was inconsistently distributed, a new study found. Here are five things to know from the December Health Affairs paper analyzing 8,538 organizations that received advanced and accelerated…

Patients are increasingly uploading test results, medical images and physicians’ notes to ChatGPT for faster responses and second opinions, The New York Times reported. But healthcare experts warn about inaccurate answers and privacy concerns when people feed their electronic medical…

Gillette, Wyo.-based Campbell County Health is implementing ambient listening for clinical documentation from healthcare AI company Abridge. The $425 million rural health system began piloting the technology Dec. 2, integrating the ambient AI into its Epic EHR. Feedback from this…

Improving the EHR experience is emerging as a critical strategy for reducing clinician turnover, according to KLAS Research‘s Dec. 3 “Clinician Turnover 2025” report. The report analyzes data from the Arch Collaborative, including survey responses from physicians and nurses at…