Category: EHRs

St. Peter’s Health, based in Helena, Mont., spent $25 million to switch to an Epic EHR system. 

Hospitals and health systems are most pleased with Epic’s Beacon for their medical oncology EHR, KLAS Research reported.

“AI as a co-pilot will be the next phase of the electronic health record,” Eric Alper, MD, chief clinical informatics officer of Worcester, Mass.-based UMass Memorial Health, told Worcester Business Journal. 

Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic is using Google Cloud’s generative artificial intelligence application that uses an AI-based chatbot to receive questions, pull information from internal web pages and documents and summarize information from EHRs to …

Here are four health systems that have implemented or announced plans to implement new EHR systems since May. 17. 

Columbus (Neb.) Community Hospital is expanding its partnership with digital health company Altera Digital Health to use the Paragon EHR for seven more years.

Iowa City-based University of Iowa Hospitals is adding Bio-key’s PortalGuard to its Epic EHR as the health system migrates from Epic Hyperspace to the Epic Hyperdrive user interface.

Spokane, Wash.-based Mann-Grandstaff VA Medical Center’s regional director said the hospital won’t cut staff due to its projected $35 million budget deficit in which its troubled Cerner EHR system plays a large role, The Spokesman-Review reported June …

While Epic continues to dominate the EHR vendor market in the United States, it ranks tenth outside the U.S., trailing its closest American competitor, Oracle Cerner, a June 8 KLAS Research report found.

McLeansboro, Ill.-based Hamilton Memorial Hospital has received a $895,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to help fund its Epic EHR system, WSIL reported June 7.