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.
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 New Jersey bucked the norm of buying the off-the-shelf EHR software from the large electronic health records vendors like Epic and Cerner and built something more aligned with what was needed.
In an analysis of Epic’s sepsis model, researchers at the University of Michigan found that it performed “substantially worse” than what the developer reported. According to their analysis, it didn’t detect many undiagnosed sepsis cases, but still gave alerts for one in five hospitalized patients.
Of 26 health systems surveyed by MedCity News, nearly half used automated tools to respond to the Covid-19 pandemic, but none of them were regulated. Even as some hospitals continued using these algorithms, experts cautioned against their use in high-stakes decisions.
After publicly campaigning against the ONC’s planned interoperability rules, Epic Systems said the agency has addressed privacy concerns in the final version of the legislation.
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.
Bluetree, which was founded in 2012 and has more than 140 health system clients around the country, will operate as a separate subsidiary of the not-for-profit health system.
During an event Rock Health Summit in San Francisco, the always quotable Cosgrove shared his thoughts on topics ranging from the V.A. to Theranos to EMRs to where he believed big tech firms can hope to change healthcare.
Thanks to the #MeToo moment, people are increasingly aware that many claims about employer misconduct never see the light of day. The employer’s ability to lock employees into binding arbitration is now, finally, being understood as a way for employers to quash legitimate claims and maintain a culture of abuse and silence.
"I don't really think EHRs are truly walled off in any way," Carl Dvorak, president of Verona, Wisconsin-based Epic, said in an interview at HIMSS. "I just think it's hard."
We will highlight Build My Health's revenue practice management tools, which could help physician practices add up to $250,000 to their practices.
In the healthcare setting, the term "patient flow" is becoming increasingly significant. A new report from KLAS outlines the top vendors offering patient flow solutions.
As part of a new report, KLAS interviewed providers about their adoption of sepsis solutions. KLAS found more and more providers seeking sepsis tools from EHR vendors like Cerner and Epic.
Epic has made a concerted effort to burnish its image in recent months by playing up its Open.epic program, blogging regularly about its customers and by making its executives more accessible to the media than in the past.
Epic will add native telemedicine support to its EHR and offer free site licenses and support to federally qualified health centers.
"The records are right there," said Dr. James McElligot, medical director for telehealth at Medical University of South Carolina. "That is a magical thing for us."