Category: Health IT

Oracle Health, formerly known as Cerner, is the second-largest EHR vendor in the U.S. Here are six updates on the company from August.

Atlanta-based Emory Healthcare developed an Epic application that alerts clinicians when patients with sepsis might benefit from a different treatment.

Geisinger, based in Danville, Pa., has achieved a 40% reduction in the average length of emergency department provider notes by using tools within its Epic EHR system.

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Medical Center, successfully transitioned to Epic for its electronic health records in January, a strategic move to its outdated EHR system.

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. 

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

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

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:

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