Category: EHRs

The key to an affordable Epic install

Hospital executives told Becker’s that the key to a successful and affordable EHR implementation is creating a thorough plan, utilizing all your resources and looking to the future. 

Oracle Health signs on 5 critical access hospitals

Five community and critical access hospitals have selected Oracle Health’s CommunityWorks as their new EHR system. 

John Muir Health integrates generative AI within Epic EHR

Walnut Creek, Calif.-based John Muir Health is partnering with Ambience Healthcare, a healthcare artificial intelligence company, to integrate its generative AI scribe within its Epic EHR.

What 5 hospitals pay their Epic talent

Health systems in California and New York are hiring for Epic-related roles that could pay more than $100,000 per year.

Hospital embarks on 'Epic Refuel Project'

EHRs have vast capabilities, and most health systems aren’t optimizing their investment simply because they haven’t realized the full potential of the technology.

How Providence is streamlining electronic message triage

A group of clinicians, informaticists and AI specialists at Renton, Wash.-based Providence collaborated to create ProvARIA to organize inbox messages based on content and urgency.

Why Epic stays open 24/7

Epic staffers field customer requests around the clock — sometimes handling queries for other health IT companies, according to founder and CEO Judy Faulkner.

Private equity firm completes $1.8B acquisition of NextGen

Private equity firm Thoma Bravo completed its $1.8 billion acquisition of EHR vendor NextGen Healthcare.

Indian Health Services selects Cerner

The Indian Health Services, a division of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that provides healthcare to federally recognized tribes, tapped General Dynamics Information Technology to build the agency a new EHR using Oracle Cerner.

Epic expands reach among payers, retail disruptors

Despite Epic’s dominance in the hospital market, a recent series of moves from the EHR giant indicates that it is also trying to expand its reach among the top payers and retail disruptors in healthcare.