Category: EHRs

EHR giants Epic Systems, Oracle Cerner and Meditech are continuing to add hospitals and health systems to their rosters. Here is a look at the hospitals and health systems getting new EHR vendors and who they are switching to in 2023:

Here are five times Becker’s reported on EHR vendor Oracle Cerner in the past month.

Hospitals and health systems are adding new software, tools and tech upgrades to their EHRs to build upon their systems’ offerings. 

Epic clients are pleased with the EHR’s interoperability and customer experience, though its cost leaves something to be desired, according to a 2023 performance report from KLAS Research.

Black Book Research ranked the top inpatient EHRs for health systems for 2023 based on surveys of 18 performance indicators conducted between the second quarter of 2022 and the third quarter of this year.

Parsons, Kan.-based Labette County Medical Center is receiving a $759,600 grant to help purchase upgrades to its EHR system, KSNT reported July 25. 

Patients at the new $900 million Duluth, Minn.-based Essentia Health-St. Mary’s Medical Center will be able to access educational and interactive content in their room’s television

Helena, Mont.-based St. Peter’s Health is warning of a “temporary disruption” to patients accessing medical records and scheduling appointments caused by the health system’s $25 million transition to a new Epic EHR.

From backing a new health data initiative to seeing its workforce jump in size by 18 percent since 2021, here are eight updates on Epic’s operations, software products and partnerships reported by Becker’s Hospital Review in July:

Daniel Barchi, CIO of Chicago-based CommonSpirit, said large electronic health record implementations often have problems that are far more than just technical, Politico reported July 21.