EHRs
It’s an exciting time in healthcare as artificial intelligence has moved from concept to capability, offering new ways to reduce…
The Sequoia Project, the Recognized Coordinating Entity for the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement, updated its TEFCA Governing Council roster Aug. 10, naming 19 representatives from health systems, health information networks, technology vendors and federal agencies. TEFCA is the…
Northeast Georgia Health System has become the fifth health system in the country to deploy Epic’s Chart with Art ambient AI tool for nursing documentation. A pilot group of 15 nurses and two patient care technicians is testing the technology…
The lawsuit Epic filed against Health Gorilla in January is on track to join a newly centralized multidistrict litigation over the data-sharing company’s alleged misuse of patient records. Health Gorilla is a Coral Gables, Fla.-based company that connects healthcare organizations…
Health systems are investing tens of millions, and in some cases more than $100 million, in Epic projects ranging from new EHR implementations to major rebuilds of existing systems. Here are the costs of four recent projects, as reported by…
Hospital executives have had little room to breathe when it comes to big investments. Median hospital operating margins were still hovering near 2% through early 2026, squeezed by rising expenses, an eroding payer mix and softening patient volumes, and finance…
Minneapolis-based Children’s Minnesota is preparing for an Oct. 3 Epic go-live, but the decision behind the implementation was more than a decade in the making. The health system ran Oracle Health in its hospitals and eClinicalWorks in affiliated ambulatory clinics…
York, Pa.-based WellSpan Health expects its quarterly Epic upgrades to become faster and less resource-intensive as a result of the health system’s newly completed migration to Amazon Web Services. “Our future Epic upgrades, which we go through every quarter, will…
For a growing number of health systems, Epic optimization is becoming as consequential as the go-live itself. Epic is continuing to roll out new tools for its customer base in 2026, part of the company’s push to expand the role…
Oracle Health’s month centered on the fallout from last year’s Cerner data breach, a new rural EHR go-live and a fresh look at how its federal contracts stack up against the rest of the industry’s priciest EHR projects. Here are…
When hospitals and health systems started charging patients for MyChart messages amid the pandemic, the reasoning was straightforward: Give clinicians a way to be compensated for the growing volume of medical advice flowing through patient portals, and perhaps slow that…