Category: Health IT

AI’s cognitive gap: Why human doctors remain irreplaceable

Around Christmas time every year, The BMJ publishes lighthearted feature articles and original, peer-reviewed research intended to ease physicians into the holiday season and help them escape the drudgery of practice. The 2024 collection of articles is…

How Judy Faulkner teaches good EHR habits

Good EHR habits come down to one thing, according to Epic founder and CEO Judy Faulkner: training.

What's next for Amazon in healthcare?

Amazon plans to accelerate its healthcare ambitions, with a focus on expanding its footprint and leveraging health system partnerships in 2025.

Oracle Health's 2025 vision

Oracle aims to revolutionize the EHR in 2025, transforming it from an administrative burden into a clinical asset powered by AI and machine learning, Seema Verma, executive vice president and general manager of Oracle Health and Life Sciences told Beck…

How to combat charting overload

Charting: It’s a word that can make even the most seasoned clinician’s shoulders tense. In my journey as the nurse practitioner charting coach, I’ve uncovered the shared struggles clinicians face with charting overload, which is why I…

Epic's top 10 moves of '24

Epic maintained its busy pace in 2024, with new health system deals and product launches.

AI hype could undermine its real potential in health care

Imagine if headlines proclaimed, “X-ray sees what doctors can’t” or “Lab test outperforms physicians’ clinical gestalt.” Absurd, right? You can recognize how such claims distort the role these tools play in health ca…

KFF Health News’ ‘What the Health?’: End-of-Year Chaos on Capitol Hill

Democrats and Republicans in the House and Senate successfully negotiated an enormous end-of-Congress health package, including bipartisan efforts to address prescription drug prices — only to see it blown up at the last minute after Elon Musk and President-elect Donald Trump applied pressure. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court accepted its first abortion-related case of the term, and the attorney general of Texas sued a doctor in New York for prescribing abortion pills to a Texas patient. Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico, Jessie Hellmann of CQ Roll Call, and Victoria Knight of Axios join KFF Health News’ Julie Rovner to discuss these stories and more. Also this week, Rovner interviews KFF President and CEO Drew Altman about what happened in health policy in 2024 and what to expect in 2025.

Epic's 2025 priorities

Epic’s roadmap for 2025 focuses on advancing clinician efficiency, enhancing patient empowerment and optimizing operational efficiency.

Florida health system eyes 2025 as 'year of innovation' after Epic go-live

Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based Broward Health has completed its transition to an Epic EHR system, aiming to make 2025 the organization’s “year of innovation,” CIO Steven Travers told Becker’s.