Category: EHRs

Philadelphia-based Penn Medicine reduced patient portal messages to physicians by having medical assistants triage the communications.

Boulder (Colo.) Community Health, a hospital composed of 2,400 employees, was once too small to work with EHR vendor Epic, hospital CEO and President Robert Vissers, MD, told the Denver Business Journal in a June 11 article. 

From plans to launching a new app for Apple’s Vision Pro headset to releasing artificial intelligence validation software, here is a look at EHR vendor Epic Systems’ biggest moves so far in 2024: 

St. Louis-based Ascension brought EHRs back online in Illinois and Wisconsin and said it remains on track to reinstate digital medical records across all 140 of its hospitals by June 14.

EHR vendor Epic Systems has entered into a new partnership with GeneDx, a genetic testing company.

An unpublished survey from the Department of Veterans Affairs revealed that its new Oracle Health EHR system is not helping improve patient care, Bloomberg reported June 7.

St. Louis-based Ascension is updating its patient portal in six markets after restoring the EHRs there following a May 8 cyberattack.

Some Novant Health patients have run into issues with MyChart as the Winston-Salem, N.C.-based health system unifies its patient portal platform, WWAY3 reported.

Madison, Wis.-based UW Health’s collaboration with Microsoft and Epic in their AI pilot program, aimed at facilitating the drafting of physician messages to patients, has resulted in the creation of more than 3,000 messages.

Epic held its inaugural European Group Meeting in May to discuss how the EHR giant’s hospital clients on the continent are using its digital tools.