Category: EHRs

Epic has been working on interoperability for years and announced new efforts in recent months.

As the federal government and many patients push for a national electronic exchange of health information, big EHR vendors like Meditech will have a lot of say in how quickly we get to that point.

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…

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

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

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

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 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.

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.

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.