Category: Health IT

When Epic created its first billing system, it charged $3,000 — less than it cost the EHR vendor to make.

Cleveland-based University Hospitals CIO Robert Eardley told Becker’s that the guiding principle in its process to convert 5.6 million patient records into a single Epic EHR was ensuring that patient care was seamless and uninterrupted. 

San Diego-based Alvarado Hospital Medical Center will remain on Epic as it is sold to UC San Diego Health for $200 million, a UC San Diego spokesperson told Becker’s.

Memorial Hospital and Health Care Center, based in Jasper, Ind., is offering a MyChart “fast pass” which allows patients to request to be placed on a digital wait list for an earlier appointment time. 

Charlotte, N.C.-based Atrium Health’s primary care physicians have saved approximately 40 minutes on documentation by using ambient technology.

Brookhaven, Miss.-based King’s Daughter Medical Center has decommissioned its legacy EHR, Meditech Magic, and migrated more than 70,000 patient records to an independent clinical data repository. 

As hospitals and health systems begin moving their EHRs and workloads to the cloud, organizations are beginning to see improvements in efficiencies, up-front infrastructure costs and cybersecurity. 

NextGen Healthcare, an EHR vendor and healthcare software company, launched an ambient listening tool that can generate summaries of patient and clinician conversations. 

Edison, N.J.-based Hackensack Meridian Health has moved its EHR playground workload from its on-premise environment to Google Cloud.