Epic is welcoming generative AI’s entrance into healthcare. The company is expanding its existing collaboration with Microsoft by integrating OpenAI services, such as GPT-4, into its EHR. The partners have already begun piloting OpenAI services at a few health systems, including UC San Diego Health, UW Health and Stanford Health Care.
Ultimately, the question is whether technology can provide a positive path forward. The answer will not rest in the capabilities of the modern EHR.
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.
A webinar sponsored by Intelligent Medical Objects April 11 will explore how payers are meeting the needs of the 2016 21st Century Cures Act when it comes to providing unfettered access to structured medical data for members.
It’s rare to find a clinician who raves about their organization’s EHR. A new KLAS report shed light on some of the key factors that contribute to clinicians' EHR dissatisfaction — including excessive alerts, downtime and inefficient training processes.
Elation Health announced its acquisition of medical billing company Lightning MD — a deal the company made to help it become an all-in-one technology platform for primary care providers. Lightning MD stood out from other medical billing startups because of its ease of use, Elation CEO Kyna Fong said.
Two Congresspeople recently introduced a bill seeking to terminate the VA's Oracle Cerner EHR rollout. The legislation said that the project is too flawed and costly to carry on — the lawmakers called for VA facilities to revert back to the department’s internally developed EHR.
At the Abarca Forward conference earlier this year, George Van Antwerp, managing director at Deloitte, discussed how social determinants of health and a personalized member experience can improve medication adherence and health outcomes.
The healthcare industry needs a regulated system that can live in between the health information management and release of information departments. It is time for both sides of this network to fully address the need to create a digital pipeline that delivers the request of information and records between two parties.
Instead of EHR companies trying to build solutions in-house, collaborating with a patient engagement technology provider is the simplest and most cost-effective way for them to deliver the communication link demanded by today’s healthcare consumer.
"An IT security issue” has been impacting several of CommonSpirit Health's facilities across the country. Some of its hospitals in Nebraska, Iowa and Washington have taken their EHRs offline due to the incident. Experts say the incident serves as an important reminder that providers need to go all in on cybersecurity, as healthcare organizations remain a prime target for hackers.
The future of healthcare is unfolding with interoperability and FHIR at the forefront. Access to data can lead patients and healthcare teams to make better, more informed and effective decisions about clinical care.
We will highlight Build My Health's revenue practice management tools, which could help physician practices add up to $250,000 to their practices.
The CDS Hooks API is a new specification that builds on FHIR, describing how EHRs can automatically invoke external platforms or apps. For the first time, by CDS Hooks invoking FHIR apps, EHR-only users can have insights relevant to the clinical situation and within their EHR workflow based on data sourced outside of it. CDS Hooks is potentially a powerful way to ensure that all patient data can be accessed via the EHR.
The 2022 U.S. Hospital Market Share report from KLAS states that other than government contracts, "no net-new large health systems have selected Cerner since 2013" though the EMR vendor scored big among small hospitals with less than 200 beds. MEDITECH had major wins among small and large hospitals.
Clinton, Missouri-based Golden Valley Memorial Healthcare is the first to deploy Meditech's solution, Expanse Genomics. It allows providers to analyze and parse genetic results into actionable data that is displayed directly in patient charts, according to Meditech.
EHR powerhouse Epic Systems sued Tata Consultancy Services in 2014 for stealing trade secrets and the court awarded Epic $940 million, which was reduced to $420 million in 2017 and again to $280 million in 2020. The Supreme Court this week rejected Epic's request to raise the amount back up to $420 million.
In a sit-down interview after my onstage fireside chat with rival Cerner CEO David Feinberg at ViVE, Epic CEO Judith Faulkner aimed to set the record straight about Epic's capabilities in AI, interoperability as well as describe what developments she is excited about in healthcare.