Chicago-based Northwestern Medicine has embedded OpenEvidence’s AI clinical decision-support platform in its Epic EHR, giving physicians, nurses, pharmacists and other clinicians systemwide access at the point of care. Clinicians have been able to launch OpenEvidence directly from Epic since Oct.…

Making Epic’s Honor Roll comes with more than recognition, and the health systems that disclose their payouts show how widely the amounts vary. Launched in 2017, the EHR vendor’s voluntary Honor Roll Good Maintenance Grant Program provides financial incentives to…

Most health systems adopting AI are layering new tools onto hospitals, workflows and IT platforms built decades earlier. The University of Texas at Austin is trying something few organizations get the chance to do: design an academic medical center around…

Health systems are not running out of AI products to consider. The harder problem is deciding which ones warrant the attention and in what order. The market for AI tools has outpaced the governance structures most organizations built to assess…

Epic has spent the past several years pulling in many of the country’s largest health systems, a disproportionate share of them leaving Oracle Health. Yet a group of big U.S. health systems still runs Oracle Health as its primary EHR.…

As hospitals and health systems further embed AI into healthcare delivery, they are increasingly appointing chief AI officers or equivalent senior executives with dedicated responsibility for AI governance, implementation and oversight. The growing presence of these roles reflects the industry’s…

Utah’s experiment with letting AI handle part of a physician’s job grew considerably this month. The state approved what one company calls the nation’s first AI to write new prescriptions, gave two Salt Lake City-based health systems a fast track…

States continue to set their own rules for AI in healthcare, from patient disclosure requirements and limits on AI therapy to guardrails on AI in prior authorization. Lawmakers in 47 states introduced more than 250 bills regulating AI in healthcare…

Pittsburgh-based UPMC is working through patient portal, workflow and technical issues following the latest phase of its transition to Epic, TribLive reported Oct. 7. Since the go-live, patients have complained of trouble logging in to the MyUPMC portal, missing information…

Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City found that adding a brief safety reminder to prompts reduced potentially harmful clinical choices in 19 of 20 large language models tested. The study, published Sept.…