New York City-based Mount Sinai, who has one of the largest production instances of Epic running on Microsoft's cloud, says the move has been able to reduce upfront infrastructure costs and accelerate the health system's integration of AI. 

Epic users can embed AI tools into their workflows in a myriad of different ways.

Epic is integrating new artificial intelligence clinical documentation capabilities for its customers through a partnership with generative AI company Abridge. 

Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanderbilt University Medical Center has started billing patients for MyChart messages that require medical advice.

Since Oracle completed its $28.4 billion acquisition of Cerner in June, the tech giant has made additional progress with its healthcare offerings, Cerner's software and health system partnerships. 

A growing number of health systems are starting to charge patients for asking for their physicians' advice through online patient portals, such as MyChart, with fees ranging from $10 to $98 for those without insurance. 

Providence, R.I.-based Care New England is collaborating with health IT provider Kyndryl to consolidate its EHR systems into Epic and move them onto Amazon Web Services' cloud, as well as outsource some of its IT employees to the company. 

Mishawaka, Ind.-based Franciscan Health based its Epic EHR training on personalized tips and education practices to improve from the 59th to 98th percentile of Epic organizations for net EHR experience score.

Despite some health systems moving away from Oracle Cerner, the EHR vendor has recently picked up community hospital and behavioral health clients. 

Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic plans to charge patients up to $50 for patient portal messages to their providers, the Star Tribune reported Aug. 14.

Nashville (Tenn.) General Hospital is implementing Oracle Health's CommunityWorks EHR system. 

The U.S. EHR market is constantly changing, due to such factors as health system consolidation and hospitals migrating from legacy EHRs.

Epic Systems and Microsoft have had a long-standing partnership, but have since expanded their alliance as they look to develop and integrate generative AI into their products, as well as make Microsoft's cloud platform compatible with running the large EHR system. 

Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanderbilt University Medical Center has rolled out changes to its patient messaging as there has been an increase in messages sent through its patient portals to its providers. 

KLAS rated Epic Systems an "A," Meditech a "B" and Cerner a "D+" in each vendor's 2023 performance and market share overview.

Here are nine notes on Epic's dominance in the U.S. EHR market.

St. Louis-based Mercy has been placed in the top 16 percent of all health systems using the Epic Systems application.

Epic has changed the face of healthcare; becoming the one source of truth and reporting for many organizations. It provides a wide range of comprehensive functionalities across patient experience, clinical documentation, reporting, and the revenue cycle. It has truly transformed the patient experience with portals for convenient appointment scheduling, viewing of medical records, and the ability for patients to easily communicate with their providers. It’s highly customizable and configurable based upon the needs of the organization and can be tailored to tie in with existing workflows. Its interoperability allows streamlined communication and workflows across internal departments with rich data reporting and actionable insights to drive decision making. Lastly, given the critical importance of quality clinical data in healthcare pared with regulatory compliance such as HIPAA, Meaningful Use and MACRA, Epic helps organizations maintain data security and avoid compliance related fines and penalties.

Epic clients can now run their EHR databases on Microsoft's Azure Large Instances, with New York City-based Mount Sinai becoming the first.

When Cleveland Clinic said in 2022 it would charge patients up to $50 for sending certain MyChart messages to their physicians, many in the healthcare industry took notice. And suddenly hospital leaders had a decision to make.