EHRs

EHR-related complaints that may sound mundane — extra clicks, redundant alarms and data scattered across systems — can reflect a deeper frustration, healthcare executives told Becker’s.   Michelle Charles, DNP, RN, chief nursing informatics officer for Fort Wayne, Ind.-based Parkview Health,…

From releasing new data-sharing features to increasing its revenue, here are 19 updates on Epic’s operations, software products, and partnerships reported by Becker’s Hospital Review in September:

Epic’s entry into the fast-growing ambient speech market is drawing strong interest from its customers, according to a Sept. 26 report from KLAS Research. At its annual UGM conference in August, Epic announced it will release a native clinician-facing ambient…

EHR vendor Veradigm, formerly known as Allscripts, started notifying patients Sept. 22 of a 2024 data breach. The company said it became aware of the December incident in July. A hacker used a credential obtained from a Veradigm customer to…

Paramus, N.J.-based Bergen New Bridge Medical Center expects a return on its new Epic EHR — its “largest strategic investment” — in two to three years, the hospital’s chief executive told Becker’s. The 1,070-bed, county-owned safety-net hospital plans to go…

Epic is working with the Social Security Administration and Chicago-based Access Community Health Network to make it easier for patients to apply for disability benefits. The connection is intended to modernize the disability insurance application process, ease administrative work for…

Lewes, Del.-based Beebe Healthcare is investing time and resources into unifying its Epic EHR into a single instance, according to a report from CoastTV, an NBC affiliate. The transition will also add MyChart access to all Beebe patients, including the…

Chicago-based CommonSpirit Health partnered with ESO to enable real-time data exchange between its five Utah hospitals and EMS agencies across Salt Lake, Davis and Utah counties. The program, which launched July 1 and was announced September 25, connects nearly 4,000…

Epic revealed several new data-sharing features at an interoperability conference Sept. 25 at its Wisconsin headquarters. Over 745 billion data exchanges happened in the past year using Epic’s publicly available application programming interfaces, or APIs, the EHR vendor said. Here…

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs plans to launch its new Oracle Health EHR at three to six medical centers at a time when it resumes the rollout in 2026, MeriTalk reported. The VA paused the EHR implementation in 2023…