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Category: Health IT
Why Epic stays open 24/7
Epic staffers field customer requests around the clock — sometimes handling queries for other health IT companies, according to founder and CEO Judy Faulkner.
AI in health care: a synergy of humans and technology
An excerpt from Artificial Intelligence in Medicine: A Compilation of Stories from Doctors Across Multiple Disciplines on AI Breakthroughs, Challenges, and Potentials in the Healthcare System. Imagine having a personal health or administrative assistan…
Private equity firm completes $1.8B acquisition of NextGen
Private equity firm Thoma Bravo completed its $1.8 billion acquisition of EHR vendor NextGen Healthcare.
Allegheny Health Network rolls out teleICU to 6 hospitals
Allegheny Health Network and Highmark Health, both based in Pittsburgh, have launched a new teleICU program spanning across six hospitals.
Indian Health Services selects Cerner
The Indian Health Services, a division of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that provides healthcare to federally recognized tribes, tapped General Dynamics Information Technology to build the agency a new EHR using Oracle Cerner.
Epic expands reach among payers, retail disruptors
Despite Epic’s dominance in the hospital market, a recent series of moves from the EHR giant indicates that it is also trying to expand its reach among the top payers and retail disruptors in healthcare.
Withdrawals and checkups: URMC to provide care at rural banks
University of Rochester (N.Y.) Medical Center is partnering with Five Star Bank to launch health stations that will connect rural patients with live, on-demand telehealth visits.
Judy Faulkner joins Wisconsin CEOs calling for action to build new UW-Madison building
Epic CEO Judy Faulkner was one of 42 CEOs expressing disappointment in the Republican-led Wisconsin state budget committee’s decision to cut funding for a new University of Wisconsin-Madison engineering building, The Daily Cardinal reported Nov. 6.
Epic receives high praise for payer platform, data handling
Epic Systems, the EHR vendor that holds 36% of the acute care hospital market share in the U.S., has gotten high marks regarding its ability to handle data and was able to achieve customer satisfaction with its payer platform.
