Category: Health IT

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. 

Northwell to provide telehealth services to the U.S. State Department

Northwell Direct, an employer health services provider owned by New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health, has been selected to provide telehealth consulting services to medical providers in the U.S. State Department. 

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.

UPMC hospital snags grant to expand telehealth services

Health plan Univera Healthcare awarded a grant to Jamestown, N.Y.-based UPMC Chautauqua to expand its behavioral telehealth services, The Post-Journal reported May 30.

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.

Top 10 remote patient monitoring platforms, per KLAS

As healthcare increasingly moves to the home, KLAS Research scored the top remote patient monitoring vendors used by hospitals and health systems in a May 30 report.

Why electronic health records are failing patients: the dark side of copy and paste [PODCAST]

Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Catch up on old episodes! Join us for an insightful conversation with Erica E. Remer, a physician and clinical documentation specialist, as we explore the challenges and pitfalls of electronic medical records (EHRs)…

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…