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…
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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…
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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…
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…