Category: EHRs

Oracle Cerner plans to lay off some employees and bring others back to the office full time, the Kansas City Business Journal reported.

New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health is moving from Allscripts to Epic Systems.  

The Department of Veterans Affairs is trying to negotiate a five-year option period for its $10 billion contract with Oracle Cerner as the EHR modernization program has been troubled since its rollout in 2020, FCW reported March 16. 

Interoperability has long been a goal of many in the healthcare industry, with EHR vendors playing a big role in how well providers can share and receive patient data.

In reporting quarterly revenues that missed analysts’ expectations, Larry Ellison, founder and chief technology officer of Oracle, touted the software giant’s push into healthcare — a strategy that doesn’t come without risks, according to a March 17 an…

Wright-Patterson (Ohio) Medical Center will transition to the MHS Genesis EHR system on June 3. 

The Department of Veterans Affairs confirmed that the Oracle Cerner EHR system caused six incidents of “catastrophic harm” to veterans, and four of those incidents led to the death of patients, The Spokesman-Review reported March 15. 

Noting that she’s been dubbed the “most powerful woman in healthcare,” marketing agency C2 Communications named Epic founder and CEO Judy Faulkner one of its five inspirational women in business.

Rochester, N.Y.-based UR Medicine Highland Hospital is integrating Medaptus’ physician assignment software Assign into its Epic EHR system. 

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