Category: EHRs

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

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has identified four major patient safety issues with the problematic Oracle Cerner EHR implementation.

The Department of Veterans Affairs is restructuring its protocol for upcoming Oracle Cerner EHR go-lives by developing a dashboard that determines whether a particular site is ready to migrate to the new system, according to a March 10 report from the …

An IT security leader from EHR vendor Epic and a current and former hospital chief information security officer plan to testify before Congress this week as the federal government looks to get a handle on healthcare cybersecurity.

A Republican House leader not only hopes to end the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs EHR contract with Oracle Cerner but wants the vendor to pay the government back, FedScoop reported.

Larry Ellison, chair and chief technology officer of Oracle, said the software company’s artificial intelligence applications are more valuable to society than ChatGPT because of their ability to improve healthcare.

Epic Systems, the EHR vendor that controls nearly a third of the U.S. hospital market share, is one of the most used vendors among the highest rated health systems in the U.S.

Physicians can openly discuss EHR issues involving the usability of the technology, the American Medical Association said.

EHR vendor Cerner contributed $1.5 billion to software giant Oracle’s $12.4 billion in third-quarter revenue; analysts at FactSet had expected $12.43 billion in revenue. 

Kingman (Ariz.) Regional Medical Center is using Meditech to create patient registries for monitoring patients in a hepatitis C treatment program.