Category: Health IT

AdventHealth's Epic install expenses hit $355M last year

Altamonte Springs, Fla.-based AdventHealth continued efforts to implement Epic EHR across its system last year, and aims to finish the final two waves of go-lives in the first and third quarters of 2023.

National telehealth utilization fell 3.7% in October

National telehealth utilization declined by 3.7 percent in October, according to Fair Health’s Monthly Telehealth Regional Tracker. 

Veradigm adds 6 new payer, 30 RCM clients in Q4

EHR vendor Veradigm, formerly known as Allscripts, said it added six new payer and 30 new revenue cycle management clients in the fourth quarter.

The CHIPHIT complex and the future of health care: Can we create a low-cost, high-quality system?

The high cost, low quality, and systemic inequities of the U.S. health care system have prompted its redesign. The current health care system is now controlled by consolidated health care institutions, insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies, and…

Number of MyChart messages drops after hospitals start billing for them, study finds

MyChart messages declined at San Francisco-based UCSF Health after the health system started billing for them, though clinicians rarely charge patients for them, a JAMA study found.

Teladoc revises 2022 Q4 revenue projections

Teladoc released revised quarterly guidance narrowing its revenue range to an estimate between $633 million and $640 million for the fourth quarter and to $2.403 billion to $2.41 billion for 2022. 

Behavioral Telehealth Loses Momentum Without a Regulatory Boost

As flexible treatment options spurred by the covid pandemic wane, patients relying on medications classified as controlled substances worry that without action to extend the loosened rules, it’ll be harder to get their meds.

Where Judy Faulkner ranks among wealthiest Wisconsin residents

Judy Faulkner, founder and CEO of EHR vendor Epic, is the third-richest person in Wisconsin, according to a list compiled by Stacker.

Oracle Cerner, Meditech execs to lead EHR Association

Leaders from EHR vendors such as Oracle Cerner and Meditech were named to the Electronic Health Record Association’s executive committee for 2023.

Intermountain, Omada partner on virtual diabetes care

Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Healthcare’s value-based care subsidiary, Castell, has partnered with virtual chronic care provider Omada Health to offer virtual diabetes care and prevention to patients.