Category: Health IT

How Kaiser Permanente's EHR evaluates medical devices

Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente uses EHR data to track the quality and safety of medical devices, aiming to provide better, more personalized patient care.

¿Cómo Se Dice? California Loops In AI To Translate Health Care Information

State officials want to use artificial intelligence to translate public health care and social services documents and websites, which they say will speed up translations, save money, and improve Californians’ access to critical information. But some IT and language experts worry AI may introduce errors in wording and understanding.

Why saving interstate telehealth should matter to you  

As cancer clinical trialists with sub-specialized practices, we treat patients from across the country. But while they must travel for treatment, there are clear occasions where we recognize that advice and consultation by telephone, video, and patient…

'I don't ever trust Epic to be correct': Nurses raise more AI concerns

Nurses continue to voice concerns about artificial intelligence and its integration into EHRs, saying the technology is ineffective and interferes with patient care.

Ascension restores EHR systemwide

St. Louis-based Ascension has restored EHR access across its health system following a May 8 cyberattack.

How Kaiser keeps telehealth alive despite industry decline

While telehealth usage has declined across the healthcare industry since its peak during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, Kaiser Permanente’s phone and video visit rates remain significantly higher than pre-pandemic levels, Desiree Gandrup-Dupr…

VA extends EHR contract with Oracle

The Department of Veterans Affairs has extended its contract with Oracle Health by 11 months as part of its ongoing EHR modernization project. 

Atrium Health adopts digital payments from Epic

Charlotte, N.C.-based Atrium Health built a digital payment platform with Epic that is moving the health system away from paper billing.

How Penn uses medical assistants to tackle MyChart messages

Philadelphia-based Penn Medicine reduced patient portal messages to physicians by having medical assistants triage the communications.

The hospital that was too small to work with Epic

Boulder (Colo.) Community Health, a hospital composed of 2,400 employees, was once too small to work with EHR vendor Epic, hospital CEO and President Robert Vissers, MD, told the Denver Business Journal in a June 11 article.