Category: EHRs

New York City-based Mount Sinai, who has one of the largest production instances of Epic running on Microsoft’s cloud, says the move has been able to reduce upfront infrastructure costs and accelerate the health system’s integration of AI. 

Epic is now offering both voice assistant-based artificial intelligence and generative AI within its EHR offerings.

Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanderbilt University Medical Center has started billing patients for MyChart messages that require medical advice.

Providence, R.I.-based Care New England is collaborating with health IT provider Kyndryl to consolidate its EHR systems into Epic and move them onto Amazon Web Services’ cloud, as well as outsource some of its IT employees to the company. 

Mishawaka, Ind.-based Franciscan Health based its Epic EHR training on personalized tips and education practices to improve from the 59th to 98th percentile of Epic organizations for net EHR experience score.

Despite some health systems moving away from Oracle Cerner, the EHR vendor has recently picked up community hospital and behavioral health clients. 

Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic plans to charge patients up to $50 for patient portal messages to their providers, the Star Tribune reported Aug. 14.

Nashville (Tenn.) General Hospital is implementing Oracle Health’s CommunityWorks EHR system. 

The U.S. EHR market is constantly changing, due to such factors as health system consolidation and hospitals migrating from legacy EHRs.

Epic Systems and Microsoft have had a long-standing partnership, but have since expanded their alliance as they look to develop and integrate generative AI into their products, as well as make Microsoft’s cloud platform compatible with running the larg…