Category: EHRs

7 Epic updates in June

From building a digital payment platform with a health system to detailing plans to partnering with a genetic testing company, here are seven updates on Epic’s operations, software products and partnerships reported by Becker’s in June:

Oracle rolls out ambient clinical documentation tool

Oracle introduced a new AI-powered clinical documentation tool designed for its ambulatory care customers. 

Oracle Health's biggest moves in 2024

From tapping the former head of CMS under the Trump administration to oversee its EHR division to snagging new health system partnerships, here is a look at EHR vendor Oracle Health’s biggest moves so far in 2024: 

How Kaiser Permanente's EHR evaluates medical devices

Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente uses EHR data to track the quality and safety of medical devices, aiming to provide better, more personalized patient care.

'I don't ever trust Epic to be correct': Nurses raise more AI concerns

Nurses continue to voice concerns about artificial intelligence and its integration into EHRs, saying the technology is ineffective and interferes with patient care.

Ascension restores EHR systemwide

St. Louis-based Ascension has restored EHR access across its health system following a May 8 cyberattack.

VA extends EHR contract with Oracle

The Department of Veterans Affairs has extended its contract with Oracle Health by 11 months as part of its ongoing EHR modernization project. 

Atrium Health adopts digital payments from Epic

Charlotte, N.C.-based Atrium Health built a digital payment platform with Epic that is moving the health system away from paper billing.

How Penn uses medical assistants to tackle MyChart messages

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

The hospital that was too small to work with Epic

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.