Category: EHRs

With a net worth of $7.4 billion, Epic founder and CEO Judy Faulkner ranked third on Forbes’ June 1 list of the richest American self-made women.

The Florida legislature passed an update to the Florida Electronic Health Records Exchange Act banning healthcare organizations using certified health record technology from storing EHR data outside the continental U.S., its territories and Canada, The…

The Bellevue (Ohio) Hospital went live with its new EHR system, Meditech Expanse, on June 1. 

EHR vendor Epic Systems continues to be the leader in the EHR hospital market share, with 83 hospitals joining its network in 2022, compared to Oracle Cerner, which only added 22. 

From 2017 to 2022, Epic was by far the most successful EHR vendor and the only one to gain hospital beds, according to KLAS Research.

Here are seven news items about EHR vendor Oracle Cerner reported on by Becker’s in the past month.

Epic has been working on interoperability for years and announced new efforts in recent months.

EHR vendor Epic Systems and Microsoft are training Azure OpenAI on a large collection of information so it can asynchronously draft responses to patient messages for providers, and hospitals and health systems have already begun piloting it. 

From adding 23 hospitals and health systems to the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement to working with Microsoft to train its Azure OpenAI to draft clinicians’ messages to patients, here are five updates on Epic’s operations, software produ…

Denis McDonough, the secretary of veterans affairs, said he will further investigate claims that Spokane, Wash.-based Mann-Grandstaff VA Medical Center would have to cut staff due to a projected $35 million budget deficit caused largely by its Cerner E…