Sacramento, Calif.-based Sutter Health is piloting Epic and Microsoft's generative artificial intelligence tool that automatically drafts message responses.

Cape Girardeau, Mo.-based SoutheastHealth will be renamed and transition to an Epic EHR system as it enters into an affiliation with St. Louis-based Mercy, Southeast Missourian reported Aug. 2. 

The House passed appropriations legislation that would give the VA $1.9 billion for its Cerner EHR modernization program if it is signed into law, FedScoop reported Aug. 1. 

Twelve faculty members from Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanderbilt University Medical Center have been appointed to serve two-year terms on specialty steering boards for EHR vendor Epic Systems. 

A July 20 study published in JAMIA found that higher levels of EHR stress were associated with higher levels of burnout among physicians in all specialties. 

Oracle Cerner customers reported challenges with the revenue cycle, poor communication and reliability issues, as the software scored a 67.6 in a 2023 performance report from KLAS Research.

Seattle-based UW Medicine began charging for MyChart on June 27 and said only about 250 messages have incurred a fee, Crystal Gail Rose Kong-Wong, MD, family medicine physician and associate medical director at UW Medicine Primary Care, told Becker's. 

A bill has been proposed to give Cary Medical Center, based in Caribou, Maine, a $9.8 million grant to get an EHR system. 

EHR giants Epic Systems, Oracle Cerner and Meditech are continuing to add hospitals and health systems to their rosters. Here is a look at the hospitals and health systems getting new EHR vendors and who they are switching to in 2023:

Here are five times Becker's reported on EHR vendor Oracle Cerner in the past month.

Hospitals and health systems are adding new software, tools and tech upgrades to their EHRs to build upon their systems' offerings. 

Hospitals and health systems have begun seeing that their physicians have little time during work hours to reply to patient messages, leaving them to attend to this duty after work during "pajama time." This has caused some organizations to start charging for some of these messages so they can lower the volume their staff receives — but is this working?

Epic clients are pleased with the EHR's interoperability and customer experience, though its cost leaves something to be desired, according to a 2023 performance report from KLAS Research.

Black Book Research ranked the top inpatient EHRs for health systems for 2023 based on surveys of 18 performance indicators conducted between the second quarter of 2022 and the third quarter of this year.

Parsons, Kan.-based Labette County Medical Center is receiving a $759,600 grant to help purchase upgrades to its EHR system, KSNT reported July 25. 

Patients at the new $900 million Duluth, Minn.-based Essentia Health-St. Mary's Medical Center will be able to access educational and interactive content in their room's television

Helena, Mont.-based St. Peter's Health is warning of a "temporary disruption" to patients accessing medical records and scheduling appointments caused by the health system's $25 million transition to a new Epic EHR.

From backing a new health data initiative to seeing its workforce jump in size by 18 percent since 2021, here are eight updates on Epic's operations, software products and partnerships reported by Becker's Hospital Review in July:

Daniel Barchi, CIO of Chicago-based CommonSpirit, said large electronic health record implementations often have problems that are far more than just technical, Politico reported July 21.  

Hospital leaders trying to balance the need to reduce the cost of the Epic implementation process and keep the installation program in-house are being very mindful of how they use consultants.