Category: EHRs

Vanderbilt Home Care, Vanderbilt Medical Center’s home-based care program, went live with an Epic EHR system on Jan. 16. 

Albany (N.Y.) Medical Center went live with an Epic EHR system on March 2. 

Rockledge, Fla.-based Health First plans to spend more than $160 million over the next two years to transition to an Epic EHR system.

The company formerly known as Allscripts plans to turn its fortunes around by using generative artificial intelligence to find insights in its decades’ worth of patient data, Forbes reported April 18.

In a move to bolster patient safety and caregiver well-being, Cleveland Clinic has integrated a feature within its Epic EHR system aimed at preparing staff for encounters with patients presenting known risks. 

UC San Diego Health has been piloting the use of generative artificial intelligence in its Epic EHR system to help draft responses to patient messages and found that the tool is assisting physicians in drafting more empathetic responses. 

EHR vendor Epic Systems told customers in a notice that it is cutting off data access to a startup called Particle Health, alleging that the company has been misusing patient data, CNBC reported April 12.

The VA aims to resume its Oracle Health EHR rollout before the end of fiscal year 2025, after pausing the $16 billion initiative in 2023, Nextgov reported April 11. 

Patient portal messages make up only a small percentage of the healthcare services patients get billed for, a new study found.

Epic founder and CEO Judy Faulkner is happy when her employees don’t know what EBIDTA stands for.