From expanding its collaborative partnerships to hospitals implementing new tools through Epic systems, here are six updates on Epic’s operations, software products and partnerships reported by Becker’s Hospital Review in January.
Category: EHRs
Hackensack Meridian to consolidate patient data via Informatica partnership
Edison, N.J.-based Hackensack Meridian Health partnered with software development company Informatica to improve its data management capabilities, according to a Jan. 27 news release.
5 recent EHR contracts, go-lives
Below are five organizations that announced plans to implement an EHR or deployed a new EHR since Jan. 7.
DOD’s Cerner EHR is 38% deployed: 4 things to know
The Department of Defense’s new Cerner EHR system is about 38 percent deployed, according to a Jan. 26 news release.
4 Cerner execs poised for payouts totaling $64.4M if Oracle deal closes
Oracle’s pending deal to buy Cerner could mean million-dollar golden parachutes for the EHR giant’s C-suite, as well as its former CEO.
4 factors determining how much time clinicians spend in the EHR
Time spent on after-hours EHR documentation is one of the main factors driving clinicians’ burnout. Clinicians’ specialty, gender, region and organizational structure are the four main factors determining how much time they spend on this after-hours wo…
Female clinicians spend more time in the EHR, study finds
Female clinicians see fewer patients per week and spend more time on EHR documentation than their male counterparts, leading to less pay and increased burnout, according to study results released Jan. 26 by EHR company Athenahealth.
Cedars-Sinai’s EHR tool saves nurses hours per week
The neonatal intensive care unit at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles is using an algorithm within its Epic EHR to calculate a score that displays infants’ weight change from birth in an easily accessible time series visualization, EpicShare r…
Integrating text analytics into EHR helps alleviate clinician burnout, study shows
Using advanced text analytics to assess EHR inbox messages can help clinicians improve their workflow and eliminate unnecessary workloads, according to a study published Jan. 20 in the American Journal of Managed Care.
EHR tool decreases clinicians’ phone calls by 60%: Yale exec shares insights
More automated transfers of electronic health information could bring “huge value” to healthcare providers in terms of saving clinicians’ time, according to David Mulligan, MD, chief of transplant surgery and immunology at Yale New Haven (Conn.) Health.
