Best Buy took a $192 million accounting loss after ending its hospital-at-home partnerships with health systems. The tech retailer recorded the pretax, noncash asset impairments related to Best Buy Health in the third quarter of fiscal 2026, according to a…
EHRs / Interoperability
While Epic sends staffers to health systems to educate healthcare workers about its EHR, the dynamic goes the other way as well. Health systems around the country routinely dispatch employees to Epic’s massive headquarters in small-town Wisconsin to learn how…
Apple continues aggressively hiring for jobs focused on enhancing the health features of its devices. Here are six healthcare-related jobs for which Apple is hiring for in November:
From new payer collaborations to growing its TEFCA network, here are key updates on Epic’s operations, customer deployments and industry partnerships, reported by Becker’s Hospital Review in November:
North Kansas City (Mo.) Hospital is notifying patients that a cybersecurity breach at EHR vendor Cerner, now known as Oracle Health, exposed some of the hospital’s data. The hospital said it learned that an unauthorized third party accessed information stored…
The U.S. House of Representatives plans to weigh in on a possible five-year extension of the CMS waiver for acute hospital care at home. The House will consider the Hospital Inpatient Services Modernization Act, which would prolong Medicare hospital-at-home reimbursement…
Oracle Health, the nation’s second-largest EHR vendor by hospital market share, had a busy November, from new partnerships to an interoperability advancement. Here are 12 times Becker’s reported on the company in the past month: 1. Oracle Health Information Network…
Cleveland-based MetroHealth, which has used the Epic EHR system since 1999, meets quarterly with Epic founder and CEO Judy Faulkner. “We still have quarterly calls with Judy Faulkner,” David Kaelber, MD, PhD, MetroHealth’s vice president and chief health informatics officer,…
Hospitals have trouble disconnecting from breached IT vendors and AI platforms, compromising their cybersecurity, Black Book Market Research found. Here are seven things to know from the Nov. 24 report that surveyed 250 hospital and health system executives and 109…
Oracle has elected the former chief executive of Quest Diagnostics to its board as the software giant aims to expand its healthcare presence. The company unanimously named Stephen Rusckowski to its Board of Directors on Nov. 18. He was president…