Hospitals and physicians are paying millions of dollars for a hidden fee to receive reimbursement from payers electronically, ProPublica reported Aug. 15.

Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanderbilt University Medical Center has started billing patients for MyChart messages that require medical advice.

Since Oracle completed its $28.4 billion acquisition of Cerner in June, the tech giant has made additional progress with its healthcare offerings, Cerner's software and health system partnerships. 

A growing number of health systems are starting to charge patients for asking for their physicians' advice through online patient portals, such as MyChart, with fees ranging from $10 to $98 for those without insurance. 

Providence, R.I.-based Care New England is collaborating with health IT provider Kyndryl to consolidate its EHR systems into Epic and move them onto Amazon Web Services' cloud, as well as outsource some of its IT employees to the company. 

St. Louis-based SSM Health and Siemens Healthineers entered into a 10-year partnership in which Siemens will provide software, technology and on-site training to the health system. 

Mishawaka, Ind.-based Franciscan Health based its Epic EHR training on personalized tips and education practices to improve from the 59th to 98th percentile of Epic organizations for net EHR experience score.

Definitive Healthcare, an information services provider for healthcare commercial intelligence, has expanded the data within its Atlas Technology Install Dataset, which will provide updates to over 1.7 million technology installations for healthcare systems.

San Diego Health Connect will implement 4medica's cloud-based Data Quality Platform across its 62 participants throughout San Diego and Imperial County.

Parkersburg, W.Va.-based WVU Medicine Camden Clark Medical Center is the latest health system caught up in a massive, worldwide data breach.