Category: EHRs

Four EHR companies were named winners of 2024 MedTech Breakthrough Awards.

Health systems that have recently moved from an Oracle Health EHR system to an Epic version say they made the move due to Epic’s tools and its ability to exchange information easier, Bloomberg reported May 9. 

After Oracle acquired Cerner for $28.4 billion in June 2022, the company lost at least a dozen of the EHR vendor’s large clients, Bloomberg reported May 9.

Epic’s EHR got its name from the word for a Greek poem, or “a glorious recounting of events,” in this case the story of a patient, according to company founder and CEO Judy Faulkner.

Epic’s EHR got its name from the word for a Greek poem, or “a glorious recounting of events,” in this case the story of a patient, according to company founder and CEO Judy Faulkner.

The chief research information officer of Yale New Haven (Conn.) Health is one of the newest governing council members for Epic’s Cosmos research network.

Ridgewood, N.J.-based Valley Health System’s new “smart hospital” in Paramus, N.J., is using Meditech’s Expanse EHR system. 

Fifteen years after meaningful use incentives propelled the shift to EHRs, health system leaders told Becker’s that digitizing medical records has been a net positive for the industry — with some caveats.

Cybersecurity, artificial intelligence and moving beyond just EHRs are top priorities for Oracle Health, its leader told the Nashville (Tenn.) Business Journal.

The purchase of a new Epic EHR has contributed to Cleveland-based University Hospitals’ operating losses in 2022 and 2023, Cleveland.com reported May 3.