EHRs
It’s an exciting time in healthcare as artificial intelligence has moved from concept to capability, offering new ways to reduce…
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…
The CIO of Washington, D.C.-based Children’s National Hospital is eager to move to Epic as the organization awaits better revenue cycle and patient experience capabilities. The pediatric health system said in June it would transition to the new EHR by…
Donate Life America has recognized Epic for a new feature that allows patients to sign up to be organ donors in MyChart. The nonprofit presented the EHR giant with the 2025 James S. Wolf, MD, Courage Award for the patient…
Healthcare continues to pay a significant financial toll for ransomware attacks, the U.S. Treasury Department found. Here are four things to know from the December report, where the U.S. Treasury Financial Crimes Enforcement Network analyzed Bank Secrecy Act data involving…
Boston-based Athenahealth will offer Microsoft Dragon Copilot as a new ambient documentation option within its EHR, athenaOne, in the first half of 2026. The partnership adds Dragon Copilot to athenaOne’s Ambient Notes, a fully integrated AI tool that creates clinical…
The American Hospital Association is advising hospitals and health systems to fix a cybersecurity flaw that received the highest vulnerability score possible. The remote code execution vulnerability affects applications using React 19, a free, open-source program for building web and…