Utilization management (UM) is a painstakingly manual process that adds administrative burden, increases healthcare waste and complicates payer-provider dynamics — yet does not necessarily improve patient care.

Medicare has granted waivers to 256 hospitals in 37 states to conduct hospital-at-home programs, but uncertainty over Medicare's future involvement has been hindering these programs from being adopted more widely, The New York Times reported Nov. 19. 

Indianapolis-based Community Health Network is notifying patients that some of their protected health information may have been sent to Meta and Google. 

Epic has entered into big partnerships this year with Amazon Web Services and Google, and added capabilities to the MyChart app. The company also joined the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement to improve health data interoperability and launched a…

Banning, Calif.-based San Gorgonio Memorial Hospital said a cybersecurity incident disrupted its IT operations.

Patients can now see most of their physicians' notes about their visits, but not many are taking advantage of this newfound transparency, The Atlantic reported.

Three members of Congress wrote a letter to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs expressing concerns that the problematic rollout of the Oracle Cerner EHR at the agency could have played a role in the deaths of two veterans.

Raintree Systems, an EHR company for rehab and therapy providers, has released a new EHR app for applied behavior analysis providers.

Munster, Ind.-based Community Healthcare System has won the 2022 Aspire Innovation Award from Ultimate Kronos Group for its use of Dimensions employee self-scheduling technology.

Varadraj Gurupur, PhD, an associate professor at Orlando-based University of Central Florida's School of Global Health Management and Informatics, has developed an algorithm that can help fill in incomplete EHRs.