EHRs

For most patients, the steady advance of healthcare interoperability has been an unambiguous good. A medical record that arrives before the patient means faster, better-informed care in the emergency department or specialist’s office. For a smaller group of patients, that…

Cambridge (Mass.) Health Alliance has recognized Epic founder and CEO Judy Faulkner with its Art of Healing Award for her philanthropic contributions to the safety-net health system. Epic’s charitable giving has funded programs expanding patient access at Cambridge Health Alliance,…

Epic holds 43.7% of the acute care EHR market, and a growing share of that expansion runs through hospitals that never signed a direct contract with the company. Through Epic’s Community Connect program, smaller organizations join a larger health system’s…

The U.S. acute care EHR market has shifted considerably over the past five years. Per Becker’s reporting of KLAS data, Epic has grown its share of acute care hospitals from 31% in 2021 to 43.7% in 2025. Oracle Health, which…

Oracle said June 10 it expects its Oracle Health business to reach double-digit revenue growth in fiscal 2027, driven by a new AI-powered overhaul of the Cerner EHR. The projection came as Oracle reported record fourth-quarter and full-year fiscal 2026…

Health systems typically spend years absorbing the cost and disruption of implementing EHRs. Now, a growing number of CIOs say the calculus is shifting — and the driver is AI. The EHR’s value is not primarily what it delivered in…

Sacramento, Calif.-based Sutter Health opened a centralized capacity management center to coordinate patient flow, effectively adding 12 beds per day to system capacity, according to an Epic case study. The 27-hospital system launched the command center in January 2025, using…

The Department of Veterans Affairs rolled out its federal EHR system, Oracle Health, to four additional facilities in Ohio and Kentucky, marking the agency’s second wave of deployments in 2026. Here are three things to know about the rollout: The…

Two of the country’s largest health systems reached new milestones in their Epic EHR rollouts, reflecting the continued push by major systems to consolidate sprawling technology portfolios onto a single platform. Chicago-based CommonSpirit Health announced June 2 that 65% of…

Judy Faulkner, founder and CEO of Epic, has earned a top spot on Forbes’ annual list of America’s Richest Self-Made Women, coming in at No. 3 with an estimated net worth of $9.6 billion. Forbes released the list June 3.…