Category: EHRs

Don Johnson, executive vice president of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure at Oracle, has abruptly left the company, TheRegister reported Jan. 25. 

From plans to put MyChart on smart televisions to new partnerships with health systems, here are four updates on Epic’s operations, software products and partnerships reported by Becker’s Hospital Review in January.

After a year in which it debuted several new software programs and worked with Big Tech companies such as Google and Apple, Epic has big plans and goals for 2023.

A study at Worcester, Mass.-based UMass Chan Medical School is analyzing how to effectively integrate data from wearables into EHRs.

Multiple VA medical facilities across the U.S. reported an EHR slowdown earlier this week, according to The Spokesman-Review.

Several hospitals and health systems now charge patients for electronic messages through patient portals like Epic’s MyChart.

Here is how much three health systems are expected to pay for the cost of purchasing, installing and upgrading a new or current electronic health record system:

Meditech has partnered with interoperability and connectivity services provider MedAllies to integrate clinical direct messaging into its EHR system. 

Boston-based Tufts Medicine reported EHR installation costs of around $70 million last year, according to The Boston Globe.

Memphis, Tenn.-based Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare is moving to an Epic EHR system.