Category: EHRs

As hospitals and health systems begin moving their EHRs and workloads to the cloud, organizations are beginning to see improvements in efficiencies, up-front infrastructure costs and cybersecurity. 

NextGen Healthcare, an EHR vendor and healthcare software company, launched an ambient listening tool that can generate summaries of patient and clinician conversations. 

Edison, N.J.-based Hackensack Meridian Health has moved its EHR playground workload from its on-premise environment to Google Cloud. 

Harrington Hospital System, based in Southbridge, Mass., went live with an Epic EHR system Oct. 2. 

Epic CEO Judy Faulkner’s net worth is now $7.4 billion, according to Forbes, up 10% from $6.7 billion as reported in 2022. 

One-hundred teammates from Advocate Health, based in Charlotte, N.C., will be traveling to London to help seven hospitals transition to an Epic EHR system.

Epic founder and CEO Judy Faulkner says she tells her 14,500 employees “congratulations” when they do a good job. She saves “thank yous” for people who give her “a ride or a book or a cookie.”

Cleveland-based University Hospitals has completed its transition to Epic, a process that saw the health system convert 5.6 million patient records and scheduling systems into one EHR.

EHR systems can be costly to implement and maintain depending on several factors, including the size and type of healthcare organization, the chosen EHR system, and the complexity of the implementation, which can lead to financial consequences for heal…

Nonprofit digital healthcare innovation group OCHIN is offering its OCHIN Epic EHR system to rural hospitals across the country.