After a physician at Chicago-based Rush University Medical Center noticed he was having to enter his login and password whenever he sent an electronic prescription through its Epic EHR, he went to administrators to change the system, helping save Rush …
Congressional Democrats plan to push for a national patient identifier system in the upcoming legislative session, Politico reported Sept. 14.
Below are five health systems that launched a new Epic EHR system or announced plans to do so since Aug. 2.
The Department of Veterans Affairs is looking to purchase Amazon Web Services’ Red Hat and ENCOR training for staff to better equip them for its EHR migration to Oracle Cerner.
Washington County (Iowa) Hospital and Clinics will receive a $753,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to install Epic’s EHR system, KCII Radio reported Sept. 13.
Epic aims to speed up clinical trials and therapy development with a new life sciences program.
Teladoc named Saranya Loehrer, MD, as chief health equity officer.
Cody (Wyo.) Regional Health will go live with Epic’s EHR system on Oct. 1.
Amazon recently announced plans to shut down Amazon Care, an in-home and virtual health care service. The reasons cited were attributed to a significant overlap of services with the One Medical chain of clinics, which Amazon purchased in July of this y…
The codes used by U.S. medical providers to bill insurers haven’t caught up to the needs of trans patients or even international standards. Consequently, doctors are forced to get creative with what codes they use, or patients spend hours fighting big out-of-pocket bills.
