EHRs

From new payer collaborations to growing its TEFCA network, here are key updates on Epic’s operations, customer deployments and industry partnerships, reported by Becker’s Hospital Review in November:

North Kansas City (Mo.) Hospital is notifying patients that a cybersecurity breach at EHR vendor Cerner, now known as Oracle Health, exposed some of the hospital’s data. The hospital said it learned that an unauthorized third party accessed information stored…

The U.S. House of Representatives plans to weigh in on a possible five-year extension of the CMS waiver for acute hospital care at home. The House will consider the Hospital Inpatient Services Modernization Act, which would prolong Medicare hospital-at-home reimbursement…

Oracle Health, the nation’s second-largest EHR vendor by hospital market share, had a busy November, from new partnerships to an interoperability advancement. Here are 12 times Becker’s reported on the company in the past month: 1. Oracle Health Information Network…

Cleveland-based MetroHealth, which has used the Epic EHR system since 1999, meets quarterly with Epic founder and CEO Judy Faulkner. “We still have quarterly calls with Judy Faulkner,” David Kaelber, MD, PhD, MetroHealth’s vice president and chief health informatics officer,…

Hospitals have trouble disconnecting from breached IT vendors and AI platforms, compromising their cybersecurity, Black Book Market Research found. Here are seven things to know from the Nov. 24 report that surveyed 250 hospital and health system executives and 109…

Oracle has elected the former chief executive of Quest Diagnostics to its board as the software giant aims to expand its healthcare presence. The company unanimously named Stephen Rusckowski to its Board of Directors on Nov. 18. He was president…

Microsoft rolled out new radiology-specific capabilities for its clinical AI assistant, Dragon Copilot, at the Radiological Society of North America’s 2025 Annual Meeting, expanding the tool’s integration with the company’s PowerScribe One reporting system. Now in preview, the update brings…

U.S. health system venture capital deals spiked during the pandemic before cooling down in the years since, according to a New England Journal of Medicine article. However, academic medical centers, in particular, may need to ramp up their venture capital…

Minot, N.D.-based Trinity Health anticipates a return on investment of nearly $1 billion from implementing Epic, its IT chief told Becker’s. The two-hospital system signed a deal for the new EHR in June with a go-live date of Nov. 1,…