Racial and ethnic minorities experienced lower response rates from attending physicians for patient portal messages, but higher response rates from registered nurses, indicating potential disparities in triage prioritization, a March 18 study published in JAMA Network Open found. 

A San Jose, Calif.-based Equinix data center used by Epic experienced a "power issue" that led to a brief outage March 20.

CMS is aiming to solve one of healthcare's most perplexing — and time-consuming — issues: the dreaded prior authorization.

Palo Alto, Calif.-based Stanford Health Care researchers found that using AI in the EHR to assist clinicians with answering patient messages has been able to reduce clerical burden and lower feelings of burnout.

Iowa City-based UI Health Care's new campus plans to go live with an Epic EHR system in May.

Physicians are billing for emails because the deluge of patient portal communications is causing "burnout" and "moral injury" while, at the same time, clinicians are facing declining reimbursement, two physician leaders wrote in Time.

Epic is betting that generative artificial intelligence will be the future of healthcare.

EHR vendor Meditech will embed Microsoft's Nuance DAX Copilot into its Expanse EHR platform. 

Even though Oracle Health is one of the largest EHR vendors in the world, the company does way more than that, its general manager says.

Georgetown, S.C.-based Tidelands Health has completed its $40 million transition to an Epic EHR system. 

Oracle reported a 7% bump in total third quarter revenue to $13.3 billion, but Cerner continues to challenge the tech giant's bottom line.

Meditech is adding ambient listening technology to its Expanse EHR system. 

Oracle added a generative artificial intelligence service to its suite of cloud applications, services and analytics capabilities for healthcare customers on March 12.

Palo Alto, Calif.-based Stanford Health Care is rolling out an AI copilot from Microsoft's Nuance enterprisewide after a successful pilot with the technology. 

An Oracle Health implementation in the Chicago area could be a "critical test" for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs EHR rollout, NextGov/FCW reported.

Epic is planning a fantastical theme for its upcoming sixth campus, the Wisconsin State Journal reported March 10.  

Starting March 7, clinicians will have access to Epic for the first time on the Mac App Store.

York, Pa.-based WellSpan Health is embedding an AI tool from Nuance, a Microsoft company, into its Epic EHR system with the aim of automating clinical documentation. 

The average cost per email for patients to message their provider was $39, according to data compiled and reported by Peterson-Kaiser Family Foundation.

Epic, Oracle, Meditech and CVS are among the organizations committing to the Biden administration's "Enhancing Oncology Model," which is a part of the larger Cancer Moonshot initiative.