Category: Health IT

Vanderbilt Home Care's Epic transition

Vanderbilt Home Care, the home care division of Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanderbilt University Medical Center, successfully transitioned to Epic for its electronic health records in January, a strategic move to its outdated EHR system.

What Epic's TEFCA push means for hospitals

Epic Systems has committed to transitioning its entire community of hospitals and health systems to the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement by the end of 2025, with all organizations expected to be signed up by the end of 2024. 

Rutgers Health nears Epic EHR completion

Newark, N.J.-based Rutgers Health’s Epic EHR implementation is slated to end its last wave in September. 

Can team-based notes cut EHR time?

Some health systems have turned to a team-based approach to help reduce physicians’ documentation burden in the EHR. But is it working?

8 Epic updates in August

From plans to roll out 20 new programs to aiming to transition all of its customers to TEFCA, here are eight updates on Epic’s operations, software products and partnerships reported by Becker’s Hospital Review in August:

Nebraska health system switches to Epic EHR

Scottsbluff, Neb.-based Regional West Health Services plans to install Epic EHR systemwide in October.

A strategic approach for leveraging Lyapunov functions in health care artificial intelligence

When it comes to science and medicine, knowing where you are and where you want to go is only part of the problem. That’s because no matter how strictly you try to control your system, chaos theory dictates that there will be perturbations which,…

What's next for Epic: 20 new programs coming soon

Epic is developing features for its EHR ranging from artificial intelligence agents in MyChart to more connectivity between payers and providers, the company said at its Users Group Meeting.

Epic's big conference: 6 highlights

Roughly 7,000 of Epic’s customers, many of them from health systems, visited the EHR vendor’s sprawling headquarters in Verona, Wis., from Aug. 19-22 for the company’s annual Users Group Meeting. Here are six highlights from the conference.

Biden Administration Blocks Two Private Sector Enrollment Sites From ACA Marketplace

Regulators have been under the gun to curb unauthorized Obamacare enrollment and switching of plans. Separately, a pending lawsuit was amended with additional defendants and new allegations regarding tactics to garner greater ACA sales commissions.