Category: EHRs

Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanderbilt University Medical Center has rolled out changes to its patient messaging as there has been an increase in messages sent through its patient portals to its providers. 

KLAS rated Epic Systems an “A,” Meditech a “B” and Cerner a “D+” in each vendor’s 2023 performance and market share overview.

Here are nine notes on Epic’s dominance in the U.S. EHR market:

St. Louis-based Mercy has been placed in the top 16 percent of all health systems using the Epic Systems application.

Epic clients can now run their EHR databases on Microsoft’s Azure Large Instances, with New York City-based Mount Sinai becoming the first.

When Cleveland Clinic said in 2022 it would charge patients up to $50 for sending certain MyChart messages to their physicians, many in the healthcare industry took notice. And suddenly hospital leaders had a decision to make.

Oracle Health will soon be right in the middle of healthcare’s American “mecca” when its parent company opens a new $1.35 billion facility in Nashville, Tenn., the Nashville Business Journal reported.

Cleveland-based University Hospitals tapped Harris Data Integrity Solutions to clean up Concord Township, Ohio-based Lake Health’s patient index before transitioning to Epic.

Milwaukee-based Froedtert Health has agreed to pay a $2 million settlement after a patient-led lawsuit accused the health system of sharing patient data put into MyChart with Facebook, Milwaukee Business Journal reported Aug. 7. 

Here are three hospitals and health systems switching to Epic Systems in 2023, as reported by Becker’s since Aug. 2: