Columbia, Md.-based MedStar Health has been on a years-long journey to reduce the documentation burden for its clinicians and has recently inked an expanded partnership with AI-powered voice assistant platform Suki AI in order to do so.

An Oklahoma City hospital has selected Meditech Expanse for its EHR.

Oracle Health Chair David Feinberg, MD, said the company's AI-powered voice recognition tool, the Clinical Digital Assistant, can compile patient records, generate visit notes for providers and respond to specific patient inquiries, the Nashville Post reported Oct. 9. 

Carequality, an interoperability network, released findings from a previous dispute between Epic Systems and startup Particle Health. 

Epic wrote to HHS asking for changes to a proposed interoperability rule.

With more than 14,000 employees and hundreds of thousands of job applications last year alone, Epic has refined the best way to find talent.

A little more than one year ago, Cleveland-based University Hospitals completed its transition to Epic, a process that converted 5.6 million patient records and scheduling systems into one EHR.

The American Hospital Association expressed its opposition to parts of a new HHS interoperability rule aiming to facilitate better healthcare data exchange.

For any hospital CEO, making significant decisions is a key part of the job, and the approach taken to evaluate options and reach conclusions can offer valuable insights.

During a visit to Wisconsin, Federal Trade Commission Chairwoman Lina Khan left open the possibility of the agency intervening in ongoing litigation involving Epic Systems, ABC affiliate WKOW reported Oct. 3. 

Cybersecurity, reducing EHR burden, and innovation are the top three priorities for health system CIOs over the next several months, according to Penn Medicine CIO Michael Restuccia.

Indianapolis-based IU Health plans to switch to Epic for its EHR.

Newark, Del.-based ChristianaCare plans to switch from Oracle Health to Epic for its EHR.

Lake Charles (La.) Memorial Health System went live with an Epic EHR system on Oct. 1. 

Epic's EHR contains an enterprise view where health system executives can check out performance indicators and detect trends across their organizations.

The biggest contributor to clinician burnout is "present-day EHRs," a Oct. 1 report from Health Note found. 

Efforts to transition from paper medical records to electronic health records (EHRs) have been wildly successful over the last fifteen years or so. After all, nearly all U.S. hospitals now leverage an EHR. However, the complexities of healthcare and technology have manifested at that intersection. Traditional EHRs have not delivered true interoperability, downtime remains a hindrance for many and usability issues abound. In fact, one recent survey found that nearly 57% of physicians say they find it difficult to document patient care using the EHR. What was supposed to alleviate clinician burden has actually made that burden heavier to carry.  

From plans to rollout 20 news programs to facing an antitrust lawsuit, here are 9 updates on Epic's operations, software products and partnerships reported by Becker's Hospital Review in September:

Oracle Health, the EHR company formerly known as Cerner, had a busy September. Here are 10 headlines from the month.

VA employees wrongly accessed the medical records for both vice presidential candidates JD Vance and Tim Walz, according to The Washington Post.