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.
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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.
4 home care technologies for health systems to prioritize, per AHA
With an aging population dealing with a variety of chronic diseases, health systems should implement leading home care technologies, the American Hospital Association said May 23.
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…
ChatGPT masters USMLE: a real win for AI, but a long way from the art of medicine
In recent years, the advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) has taken the world by storm, with numerous applications in diverse sectors, such as transportation, finance, and medicine. One of the most significant milestones in medical AI is the rec…
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.
Medicare payers vow to keep covering remote patient monitoring
Private insurance companies that contract for Medicare will continue to pay for remote patient monitoring, Politico reported May 23.
Watchdog: VA has no goals to establish user satisfaction with Cerner EHR
The Department of Veterans Affairs has not established goals to assess user satisfaction with its new Cerner EHR system, a May 18 Government Accountability Office report found.
