Category: EHRs

Epic, Press Ganey to integrate patient experience data into MyChart

Epic Systems has partnered with consumer experience company Press Ganey to integrate patient experience data into MyChart. 

Meditech shows off embedded Google Health search function in EHR

EHR vendor Meditech will lead a presentation on how it embedded Google Health’s search and summarization capabilities into clinician workflows at the HIMSS 2023 conference in April. 

32 new community hospitals, patent lawsuit win: 11 Oracle Cerner headlines from February

From signing 32 community hospital contracts to winning a federal patent infringement lawsuit, here are 11 times Becker’s reported on EHR vendor Oracle Cerner in the past month.

UC San Diego Health to share EHR with El Centro Regional Medical Center

UC San Diego Health said it is in discussion to share an EHR system with El Centro (Calif.)  Regional Medical Center as part of a move to stabilize the hospital after its acting CEO and CFO resigned in January. 

Viewpoint: Don't 'nickel and dime' patients by charging for MyChart messages

Hospitals and health systems shouldn’t “nickel and dime” patients by charging for MyChart messages as it could discourage them from seeking care, the co-directors of the Center for Patient Partnerships wrote in the Wisconsin State Journal.

NYU Langone adds interpretation tech to Epic EHR

New York City-based NYU Langone Health is implementing language interpretation company Voyce’s app into its Epic EHR system.

Top 5 vendors for health system practice management EHRs, per Black Book Research

Here are the top five EHR vendors for integrated practice management for health systems, as ranked by Black Book Research.

Stanford health IT exec joins leaders from Highmark, Kaiser, Epic on Sequoia Project board

The Sequoia Project, an EHR interoperability project that counts Epic and the American Medical Association among its founding members, has named a health IT leader from Palo Alto, Calif.-based Stanford Health Care to its board.

CommonSpirit Health a model for social determinants data sharing via EHRs: ONC

Chicago-based CommonSpirit Health has robust data sharing and collection to address social determinants of health in the communities it serves, ONC said in a new report.

Hogwarts in Wisconsin? Epic's campus designed after 'Harry Potter'

EHR vendor Epic’s headquarters in Verona, Wis., is complete with castles, wizards and dragons, WIProud reported.