Category: EHRs

OhioHealth Van Wert Hospital has spent $12 million to upgrade its EHR system to CareConnect. 

A watchdog has found that the Department of Veteran Affairs’ Oracle Health EHR system has had scheduling errors and pharmacy-related coding problems, which have led to patient safety incidents.

From developing over 60 generative AI models to making its software available on Apple platforms, here are 10 updates on Epic’s operations, software products and partnerships reported by Becker’s Hospital Review in March:

Racial and ethnic minorities experienced lower response rates from attending physicians for patient portal messages, but higher response rates from registered nurses, indicating potential disparities in triage prioritization, a March 18 study published…

A San Jose, Calif.-based Equinix data center used by Epic experienced a “power issue” that led to a brief outage March 20.

CMS is aiming to solve one of healthcare’s most perplexing — and time-consuming — issues: the dreaded prior authorization.

Palo Alto, Calif.-based Stanford Health Care researchers found that using AI in the EHR to assist clinicians with answering patient messages has been able to reduce clerical burden and lower feelings of burnout.

Iowa City-based UI Health Care’s new campus plans to go live with an Epic EHR system in May.

Physicians are billing for emails because the deluge of patient portal communications is causing “burnout” and “moral injury” while, at the same time, clinicians are facing declining reimbursement, two physician leaders wrote in Time.

Epic is betting that generative artificial intelligence will be the future of healthcare.