Nurses' satisfaction with EHRs is increasing, though challenges with reliability and response times remain opportunities for improvement, according to an Aug. 20 report from KLAS Research.

Idaho-based critical access hospitals St. Mary's Health in Cottonwood and Clearwater Valley Health in Orofino plan to install to Meditech Expanse across their entire networks.

The venture capital arms of Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente and two other health systems participated in a $10.5 million funding round Aug. 20 for a supply chain tech startup.

A Georgia hospital confirmed it fell victim to a ransomware attack.

Health systems are joining forces with university health technology experts to tackle a major hurdle in the adoption of advanced artificial intelligence tools in healthcare: bias, Politico reported Aug. 19. 

In February, Allina Health made the strategic decision to transfer approximately 2,000 IT and revenue cycle employees to UnitedHealth Group's Optum. This move proved to be highly advantageous when the CrowdStrike IT outage impacted the organization.

Renton, Wash.-based Providence's facility in Hyderabad, India, is ramping up its IT workforce to more than 3,500, The Times of India reported Aug. 14. 

McLaren Health Care confirmed that its Aug. 6 IT disruption was the result of a ransomware attack.

Forbes picked the best EHRs of 2024 in 10 different categories.

Epic continues to focus on artificial intelligence-powered predictive models and generative AI to boost its EHR. But what comes next?