Category: EHRs

EHR vendors had a busy year. Here is the top news that Becker’s covered on EHR vendors Meditech, Allscripts and Athenahealth in 2022.

Cerner generated $1.5 billion in revenue for Oracle in the second quarter of 2022. 

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs plans to hire 1,000 IT workers to help with the implementation of its Oracle Cerner EHR, FedScoop reported.

From entering into an agreement with Google Cloud to updating some of its EHR capabilities to become more compatible with Apple, here are 12 of Epic’s biggest moves in 2022: 

Patients sending negative words in EHR messages isn’t associated with provider burnout, a study in JAMA Network Open found, but natural language processing may identify ways to filter them out and otherwise improve the patient experience.

Epic is introducing a connection hub where developers can indicate that their software is interoperable with the EHR vendor.

UCSF Health and UCSF Dentistry, both based in San Francisco, have merged medical and oral health records into its Epic EHR system. 

An employee of Sacramento, Calif.-based UC Davis Health accessed the health system’s electronic health records system without proper cause, potentially compromising the personal information of 408 patients. 

Epic has been working with Big Tech companies lately to help hospitals and health systems better manage their EHRs.