Judy Faulkner Shares 3 Strategies that Fuel Epic’s Success
During a recent panel, Epic CEO Judy Faulkner gave some insight about how she runs her company and why she thinks its employees enjoy coming to work.
Unpacking the Epic-Particle Health Dispute: When It Started, What’s Being Alleged & What It Means for the Industry
Following a months-long dispute, data platform Particle Health filed an antitrust lawsuit against Epic, alleging that the EHR giant is using its dominance in the market to prevent competition in the payer platform space. Particle believes the lawsuit is an “unprecedented challenge” to Epic’s market power, while Epic thinks the startup’s claims are “baseless.”
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Transforming Patient Care: The Role of AI-Powered Assistants
The progress in artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping patient care, across various dimensions, from facilitating faster discharge to curating treatment plans and suggesting lifestyle changes.
UNC Health CMIO: Clinicians and AI Must ‘Synergistically Work Together’
AI is meant to have a synergistic relationship with clinicians rather than replace them, pointed out David McSwain, chief medical information officer at UNC Health, during an interview at HIMSS24. In his view, both humans and AI are fallible, but their errors are usually of a different type — so both should be working together to reduce the overall error rate.
9 ViVE Announcements You Don’t Want to Miss
This year's ViVE conference featured a variety of news announcements — from company launches to new products to partnerships to acquisitions and more. In this list, MedCity News compiled short summaries for nine of the conference's most notable announcements.
Highmark Health Collaborates with Epic, Google Cloud To Improve Payer/Provider Coordination
Epic’s Payer Platform is being integrated with Highmark’s claims data on Google Cloud, the companies announced Monday at ViVE. This will give providers better insight into patients' health.
Epic Is Integrating Abridge’s Generative AI Tool Into Its EHR
Epic announced that it will integrate Abridge’s clinical documentation tool into its EHR workflow. The startup’s generative AI tool listens to visits and creates a near-instant summary that adheres to physicians’ prototypical note structure.
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Market Trends to Watch for Health Systems and Their Specialty Pharmacies
The future looks bright for the integrated specialty pharmacy model – for health systems, providers, and most importantly, for patients.
How Should Providers Deploy Large Language Models? Experts Weigh In
The use of LLMs in healthcare is still quite new, so health systems want to deploy these tools in the least risky way possible. A panel of experts explained how they think health systems can do this during MedCity's INVEST conference — some of their advice included starting with deployment in nonclinical settings and partnering with incumbent vendors rather than startups.
Epic Integrates Suki’s Voice Assistant Into Its EHR
Suki recently announced one of its biggest partnerships to date: it is integrating its voice assistant into Epic’s EHR. The startup's assistant can be thought of as like Apple’s Siri or Amazon’s Alexa — but for doctors.
Epic to Integrate GPT-4 into Its EHR Through Expanded Microsoft Partnership
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.
A Look at the 5 Companies at the Top of This Year’s ‘Best in KLAS’ Rankings
Epic, Nordic, Impact Advisors, The Chartis Group and Medasource were the five companies with the best performances in this year’s Best in KLAS Awards. KLAS Research named Epic as the top overall software suite for the thirteenth year in a row.
Health Executives on Digital Transformation in Healthcare
Hear executives from Quantum Health, Surescripts, EY, Clinical Architecture and Personify Health share their views on digital transformation in healthcare.
KeyCare gets $24M to expand the only virtual care platform built on Epic
KeyCare, the country’s only virtual-first care platform built with Epic, recently closed a $24 million Series A funding round. It will use the money to go live at more health systems and onboard more virtual care providers to its platform.
To improve EMR satisfaction, work on speed and reliability first
Providers would be wise to improve their EMR system response time and reliability, as these two measures critically influence clinician satisfaction. These improvements are acutely needed amid healthcare’s workforce shortage — burnout and EMR dissatisfaction are key factors associated with clinicians' likelihood to resign.
Surescripts webinar highlights: Interoperability progress depends on how you look at it
Register to view a webinar, sponsored by Surescripts, highlighting progress made on interoperability and what's needed to improve and expand it.
New EMR report shows Cerner continuing to lose market share in the U.S. despite what Feinberg said
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.
Exploring the next chapter of interoperability
A webinar, sponsored by Surescripts on April 28, will include: Surescripts CEO Tom Skelton, Epic CEO Judy Faulkner, Healthcare Leadership Council President Mary Grealy, and UC San Francisco Assistant Professor of Medicine A. Jay Holmgren. Register today!