Paramus, N.J.-based Bergen New Bridge Medical Center expects a return on its new Epic EHR — its “largest strategic investment” — in two to three years, the hospital’s chief executive told Becker’s. The 1,070-bed, county-owned safety-net hospital plans to go…

Epic is working with the Social Security Administration and Chicago-based Access Community Health Network to make it easier for patients to apply for disability benefits. The connection is intended to modernize the disability insurance application process, ease administrative work for…

At UCI Health, the promise of AI is not measured by hype or speed, but by a simple question: “What problem are we trying to solve?” Deepti Pandita, MD, UCI Health’s chief medical information officer, said that question guides nearly…

A candid look at how the RhythmX AI Precision Care Platform powers personalized care, optimizes referrals and unlocks measurable financial impact, while streamlining clinician workload. During a recent Becker’s webinar, The Future is Live: How Trailblazing Health Systems Are Revolutionizing…

Lewes, Del.-based Beebe Healthcare is investing time and resources into unifying its Epic EHR into a single instance, according to a report from CoastTV, an NBC affiliate. The transition will also add MyChart access to all Beebe patients, including the…

Chicago-based CommonSpirit Health partnered with ESO to enable real-time data exchange between its five Utah hospitals and EMS agencies across Salt Lake, Davis and Utah counties. The program, which launched July 1 and was announced September 25, connects nearly 4,000…

Epic revealed several new data-sharing features at an interoperability conference Sept. 25 at its Wisconsin headquarters. Over 745 billion data exchanges happened in the past year using Epic’s publicly available application programming interfaces, or APIs, the EHR vendor said. Here…

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs plans to launch its new Oracle Health EHR at three to six medical centers at a time when it resumes the rollout in 2026, MeriTalk reported. The VA paused the EHR implementation in 2023…

A federal judge has ruled that parts of a class-action lawsuit against St. Louis-based Ascension over a ransomware attack in 2024 can move forward, while other claims will be dismissed. The lawsuit, filed in May 2024 by former patients, accuses…

The coming expiration of CMS’ hospital-at-home waiver is sowing confusion and uncertainty among health system executives who oversee the programs. Some leaders told Becker’s that if the CMS waiver expires Sept. 30 without an extension, they would have to end…