EHRs
It’s an exciting time in healthcare as artificial intelligence has moved from concept to capability, offering new ways to reduce…
In the past year-plus, Epic has ended its startup codevelopment program and rolled out its own ambient AI scribe to compete directly with the companies that helped popularize the category in the first place. It’s a live example of the…
Epic’s September included a reported pause on most technology development to focus on cybersecurity, new AI deployments and integrations, expanded patient communication capabilities and continued growth across health systems. Here are 11 Epic updates from September:
Epic’s Hello World communication platform helped health systems prevent more than 3.4 million patient no-shows nationwide over the past 12 months, and the company has now added a feature that shows patients a branded caller ID before they answer. Hello…
The American health record was not designed with patients in mind. Records are stored by hospital systems, formatted by the EHR vendor each institution uses and largely inaccessible to patients who see multiple providers or cross institutional lines. Larry Ellison,…
Oracle unveiled its Oracle Health Oncology EHR at the Oracle Health and Life Sciences Summit in Orlando, Fla. The cancer-specific EHR is built on the company’s AI-powered ambulatory EHR. The system brings together oncology workflows, AI-driven clinical intelligence drawn from…
Epic said its technology roadmap remains unchanged after CEO and founder Judy Faulkner disclosed the EHR vendor had paused most technology development to focus on cybersecurity. Ms. Faulkner told attendees at Modern Healthcare’s Leadership Summit that the pause involves hundreds…
Hershey, Pa.-based Penn State Health will launch Epic across the health system Oct. 31, moving to a unified EHR and billing system. The transition will also introduce Epic’s MyChart patient portal, replacing five separate patient portals with a single platform,…
The EHR is increasingly becoming the place where health systems encounter, deploy and build artificial intelligence. Recent moves from Epic, Oracle Health and OpenAI, along with deployments at health systems across the country, show AI moving deeper into the systems…
The American Medical Association is urging CMS to maintain its Jan. 1, 2027, electronic prior authorization deadline. CMS broadened prior authorization reform efforts — and built upon payers’ existing commitments — to include providers and EHR vendors. Application programming interface…
Oracle Health spent the first half of 2026 accelerating its push to remake healthcare technology through AI, expanding its footprint across the Department of Veterans Affairs and introducing new interoperability tools, even as the company cut hundreds of jobs tied…