Category: EHRs

Mayo embraces 'citizen development' for AI

Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic is taking a different approach with AI and is leaning into its clinicians so that they can develop their own AI capabilities, MITSloan reported March 27. 

OhioHealth hospital spends $12M on EHR upgrade

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

VA's Oracle Health EHR faces more scrutiny

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.

Epic in the last 30 days

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:

Attending physicians less likely to respond to minorities' messages: Study

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…

9 Epic hospitals affected by data center outage

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

How CMS is digitizing prior authorizations to save $15B

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

Stanford lightens cognitive EHR burden for physicians

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.

New UI Health campus to go live with Epic

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

Why physicians are charging for emails

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.