Even though ChatGPT for Healthcare can now integrate with Epic, health system leaders told Becker’s that generative AI does not get closer to the medical record unless its output can be traced, checked and audited against the chart and a…
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Over a six-year period, Medicare may have spent $380 million on organs that were not ultimately used in covered enrollee transplants, according to a September HHS Office of Inspector General report. Under federal law, Medicare can only reimburse certified transplant…
Some of Annapolis, Md.-based Luminis Health’s patients are being rerouted to other facilities and its physicians are reverting to paper charts as a cybersecurity incident continues to disrupt electronic systems. Luminis Health first disclosed the incident Sept. 1, though community…
MyChart hasn’t been hacked. Nobody’s data has leaked out of Epic Systems’ platform, and the company says its security is unaffected. And yet dozens of health systems, from academic medical centers to rural critical access hospitals, have spent the past…
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Healthcare employment continued to trend up in August, adding 12,900 jobs, though at a slower pace than the average monthly gain of 32,000 over the prior 12 months, according to the Sept. 4 jobs report from the U.S. Bureau of…
Epic remains the dominant EHR vendor among the nation’s largest health systems by revenue — 21 of the top 25 run on it in whole or in part. But a handful continue to use Meditech or Oracle Health instead. Here…
The largest publicly traded for-profit health systems have been active on the M&A front in 2026, but the moves they are making are not bringing new hospitals into the fold. Instead they are acquiring digital health platforms, expanding outpatient networks…
Artificial intelligence is reshaping health IT at a pace that many healthcare organizations are struggling to match. From ambient documentation and clinical decision support to agentic AI that can act inside the EHR, the tools available to clinicians and administrators…