EHRs
It’s an exciting time in healthcare as artificial intelligence has moved from concept to capability, offering new ways to reduce…
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…
Epic will provide software to Quest Diagnostics under a new deal to improve digital connectivity with health systems and other providers. The EHR company, which has been expanding its laboratory footprint in recent years, inked a deal with the lab…
Epic Systems and Particle Health are clashing over how their antitrust lawsuit should move forward, with each side telling a federal judge that the other is misinterpreting her recent order. New York City-based Particle Health, a health data exchange startup,…
Oracle Health has signed a $218 million deal with the state of New York to build an EHR for its 24 psychiatric hospitals and over 300 outpatient programs. The New York State Office of Mental Health now uses multiple EHRs,…