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. 

So far, in 2023, Becker's has reported on hospitals in Texas, Vermont, Ohio, Nebraska and Illinois switching to Meditech.

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. 

Harrington Hospital System, based in Southbridge, Mass., went live with an Epic EHR system Oct. 2. 

Epic CEO Judy Faulkner's net worth is now $7.4 billion, according to Forbes, up 10% from $6.7 billion as reported in 2022. 

One-hundred teammates from Advocate Health, based in Charlotte, N.C., will be traveling to London to help seven hospitals transition to an Epic EHR system.

Epic founder and CEO Judy Faulkner says she tells her 14,500 employees "congratulations" when they do a good job. She saves "thank yous" for people who give her "a ride or a book or a cookie."

Cleveland-based University Hospitals has completed its transition to Epic, a process that saw the health system convert 5.6 million patient records and scheduling systems into one EHR.

EHR systems can be costly to implement and maintain depending on several factors, including the size and type of healthcare organization, the chosen EHR system, and the complexity of the implementation, which can lead to financial consequences for health systems. 

Nonprofit digital healthcare innovation group OCHIN is offering its OCHIN Epic EHR system to rural hospitals across the country.

Here are six facts about Oracle Cerner's place in the EHR market.

Mobile, Ala.-based Ascension Providence Hospital will remain on Cerner as it is sold to USA Health, a spokesperson told Becker's.

Gardner, Mass.-based Heywood Healthcare cited a "lengthy electronic medical record transition" as a factor in its decision to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. 

Several companies and vendors offer EHR systems and services, but companies such as Epic Systems and Oracle Cerner have historically dominated the market. Will this remain true in 2024?

Oracle Cerner, the nation's second-largest EHR vendor by hospital market share, continues to make big moves. Here are seven reported by Becker's in the last 30 days.