Category: EHRs

3 ways health systems are using Epic to optimize patient care, operations

From integrating revenue cycle management platforms into Epic’s EHR system, to using Epic applications to provide patients with individualized cancer treatments, here are three ways health systems are using Epic to provide better patient care and impro…

What Epic, Oracle Cerner pay for 5 IT roles

Epic Systems pays its software engineers $25,492 more than Oracle Cerner, according to average salary postings from payscale.com. 

4 health systems installing new EHRs

Here are four health systems that have implemented new EHR systems since Aug. 2. 

eClinicalWorks moves EHR to Microsoft cloud in $100M deal

eClinicalWorks is moving its EHR to Microsoft Azure and plans to invest $100 million in the tech giant.

MercyOne to switch from Cerner to Epic EHR

MercyOne health system will transition to Epic EHR in the coming months to align with Livonia, Mich.-based Trinity Health, which fully acquired the Clive, Iowa-based health system Sept. 1.

Hospitals that share public health data will get better Medicare rates

Hospitals are eligible for increased financial incentives if they share data with public health authorities as part of a new CMS rule, Pew reported Aug. 31.

Oracle Cerner exec calls agreement ‘leap’ toward interoperability

The news that an EHR vendor consortium is signing on to a new federal health information sharing effort is a huge step toward creating a national healthcare data exchange, an Oracle Cerner executive wrote in an Aug. 31 blog post.

Meditech software helps reduce C. diff cases, canceled tests at Ohio hospital

Hospital-acquired infections at Southern Ohio Medical Center in Portsmouth have fallen since it implemented a software program from Meditech, the EHR vendor said Aug. 30.

Novant Health integrates RCM system into its Epic EHR

Winston-Salem, N.C.-based Novant Health has partnered with healthcare billing company Cedar to add a post-visit billing and payment platform management system into its Epic EHR system.  

UCI Health using natural language processing to extract clinical information from EHRs

Orange County, Calif.-based UCI Health has partnered with biomedical tech company Melax Tech to implement its natural language processing technology into its data science platform.