Category: EHRs

Epic vs. Cerner: EHR market share

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. 

EHR vendors: The big winners from the past 5 years

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.

Oracle Cerner in the last 30 days

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

What Epic is doing to accelerate interoperability

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

4 health systems piloting Microsoft, Epic's generative AI

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. 

Epic in the last 30 days

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…

VA secretary: Cerner EHR troubles won't mean staff, funding cuts at Washington hospital

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…

Epic added 83 hospitals in 12 months

Eighty-three hospitals joined the Epic network in 2022, the most of any EHR vendor last year, according to KLAS Research.

UNC Health CIO says Epic AI pilot will be a 'game changer' for reducing 'pajama time'

UNC Health CIO Brent Lamm told Becker’s that the health system is looking to reduce physicians’ pajama time — time spent on answering patient messages within its My UNC Chart — with Epic and Microsoft’s generative artificial intelligence tool that auto…

EHR vendors ranked by hospital market share gains (and losses)

Here are the EHR vendors that gained — or lost — acute care hospital market share between 2021 and 2022, according to a May 23 KLAS Research report.