EHRs

Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente has agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit for $46 million over claims it shared patient data with tech companies. Several patients sued the health system in 2023, asserting that its consumer-behavior tracking technologies transmitted their personal…

Hospital and health system leaders expect strong gains from AI and other digital tools in 2026, Black Book Market Research reported. Here are four things to know from the survey of 202 health system executives and 84 board members published…

Several health systems are making major bets on new Epic EHR platforms and expect to see substantial returns, with leaders pointing to application consolidation, efficiency gains and reduced administrative burden as key drivers. Minot, N.D.-based Trinity Health expects its Epic…

Coming from a family of “healthcare people” has given Epic founder and CEO Judy Faulkner a leg up in the industry, she said. Ms. Faulkner has eight working-age physicians in her family, and her father was a pharmacist while her…

EHR vendors have expanded their patient-record sharing capabilities in recent years, but clinicians still report little improvement in how usable that data is, a Dec. 1 report from KLAS Research found. The report examines provider-to-provider record exchange, third-party application integration…

Newark, Del.-based ChristianaCare is the latest health system to confirm it was affected by a cybersecurity incident involving its EHR vendor, Oracle Health, formerly known as Cerner. In a post on its website, the system said an unauthorized third party…

New York City-based NYU Langone Health recently launched About Me, an initiative that allows patients to share short personal details with their care teams. When admitted, each patient is asked to complete the sentence: “We want to get to know…

Best Buy took a $192 million accounting loss after ending its hospital-at-home partnerships with health systems. The tech retailer recorded the pretax, noncash asset impairments related to Best Buy Health in the third quarter of fiscal 2026, according to a…

While Epic sends staffers to health systems to educate healthcare workers about its EHR, the dynamic goes the other way as well. Health systems around the country routinely dispatch employees to Epic’s massive headquarters in small-town Wisconsin to learn how…

Apple continues aggressively hiring for jobs focused on enhancing the health features of its devices.  Here are six healthcare-related jobs for which Apple is hiring for in November: