Texas AG is suing Epic Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton files an antitrust and consumer protection petition alleging that Epic maintains monopoly power. It says that Epic controls more than 90% of US patient records, locks in hospitals through extreme switching costs, restricts competitor access to data, and imposes no-hire restrictions on employees. The petition also argues that Epic… Read More »
AI Scribe by Epic Next week is the UGM? Look for the announcement. Why does it take so long to switch from Cobol or perhaps MUMPS? It is always amazing to us the resistance to efficiency that institutions have. Banks, restaurants, and airlines still running on Windows 97 e.g. Why do I have to type so much stuff? … Read More »
EPIC Goes AI From fiercehealthcare.com 4/18 Announcement from HIMSS by EPIC that it is collaborating with Microsoft and Azure OpenAI services on AI services. They are not showing any live demo. In Brief Summary reduces administrative burden with message response UC San Diego Health, UW Health in Madison and Stanford Health Care A lot like restaurants where the… Read More »
Epic and Google Partner on AI & Analytics Wait long enough and natural fit companies eventually partner, even after deliberately not partnering anymore. Google Cloud and Epic, one of the largest medical records software companies in the U.S., inked an infrastructure agreement to enable hospital customers to run their Epic workloads on the tech giant’s cloud technology. From… Read More »
EPIC EHR News More big hospitals are looking to integrate into a single EHR and EPIC seems to be the preferred option to do that. The uncertainty from Oracle, a traditional SQL database company, migrating its backend to Cerner might be one factor. A benevolent dictatorship is better than a dictatorship was one quote. Allscripts has suffered. Worth… Read More »
Epic EHR Upgrade From Beckers Hospital Review – 8/2/2022 Winchester, Va.-based healthcare system Valley Health is spending $50 million to install their own Epic EHR system, the Northern Virginia Daily reported August 1. Valley Health has used Epic EHR through a partnership with Falls Church, Va.-based Inova Health System since 2014. Valley Health is installing its own upgraded version of… Read More »
Cleveland Clinic digital health initiative Epic EHR From Epic At Cleveland Clinic, neurologists and neurosurgeons reach patients who are experiencing strokes even if they’re hundreds of miles away. Clinicians in a mobile stroke treatment unit use telehealth to bring remote neurologists to patients in seconds, and this approach has helped stroke patients receive potentially life-saving anti-clot medication 40 minutes… Read More »
Improved medical record management means better care during COVID-19 pandemic Reported by UCSD Nov 2020 — November 12, 2020 | Jackie Carr Across the nation, top universities offer comprehensive health services to more than 20 million students in the form of primary, urgent and mental health care services. Management of medical records within student health centers is often outdated and… Read More »
EHR Market Share News KLAS full Reference article on Becker May 2020 Epic and Cerner maintained the largest shares of the EHR market for acute care hospitals in 2019. However, Cerner experienced a net decrease in market share for the first time since 2010, according to a recent KLAS Research report. For its “U.S. Hospital EMR Market Share 2020”… Read More »
EHR Epic full article at FierceHealthCare Apr2020 – by Heather Landi | Apr 22, 2020 11:57am A typical hospital EHR project can take at least a year. A team at health IT giant Epic has been able to stand up technology at field hospitals in COVID hot spots in a matter of days. In all, the Wisconsin-based EHR vendor has helped to… Read More »