Category: Health IT

Lawmakers introduce patient-matching bill for EHRs

U.S. lawmakers introduced bipartisan legislation Feb. 16 to better match patients with their EHRs.

Oracle adds new integration to EHR

Oracle Health EHR, formerly recognized as Cerner Millennium, is adding a new integration called the Oracle Identity Governance.

Montana health system switches to Epic

A Montana health system plans to go live with a new Epic EHR on March 1, KRTV reported.

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Oracle Health EHR turns VA medical centers 'upside down'

U.S. Rep. Matt Rosendale of Montana, chair of the House Veterans’ Affairs Subcommittee on Technology Modernization, said VA medical centers running on the Oracle Health EHR system have been turned “upside down.”

How much 4 health systems are paying for EHRs

Here is how much four health systems are expected to pay or have paid for the cost of purchasing, installing and upgrading a new or current electronic health record system:

How a health system removed 'pebbles in the shoe' from its EHR

One health system eased physician burnout by removing “pebbles in the shoe” from its EHR, the American Medical Association reported.

Virtual visits down at Kaiser Permanente

Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente furnished tens of millions of virtual visits and online prescription orders in 2023, though patients’ use of those digital tools was down from previous years.

Why Trinity Health is spending $800M on Epic

Livonia, Mich.-based Trinity Health is nearly three-fourths of the way through an $800 million Epic rollout that is bringing the EHR to 101 hospitals.

HHS adds 2 networks to hospital data exchange

Two more health information networks have been added to a nationwide data exchange used by hospitals and health systems, HHS said Feb. 12.