Epic Systems

Epic, NextGen Healthcare, athenahealth Boast Top EHR Training

by Christopher Jason

Epic, NextGen Healthcare, and athenahealth led the top large ambulatory EHR vendors in quality EHR training and clinician preparedness, according to a recent KLAS report. Although high-quality EHR...

Epic Systems, athenahealth, MEDITECH Top 2021 Best in KLAS Awards

by Christopher Jason

Epic Systems proved its supremacy over its EHR vendor competitors, taking home 11 Best in KLAS 2021 awards, highlighted by the Top Overall Software Suit for the 11th straight year and the Top Overall...

Epic Systems Awarded 2021 Best in KLAS for Top Overall Suite

by Christopher Jason

For the 11th straight year, Epic Systems was awarded the top overall software suite in the 2021 Best in KLAS health IT rankings. Overall, Epic earned 11 awards, including the top overall physician...

University of Arkansas Taps Epic EHR to Enhance Interoperability

by Christopher Jason

The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Regional Campuses have implemented Epic EHR to boost interoperability across its nine clinical locations. For the last eight years, UAMS Medical...

Epic, Cerner, Health IT Vendors Form Digital COVID-19 Vaccine Coalition

by Christopher Jason

Several health IT vendors, organizations, and stakeholders, including Epic and Cerner, announced the formation of the Vaccination Credential Initiative (VCI), which aims to give individuals digital...

Ohio Health System to Implement Epic EHR After Partnership With OSU

by Christopher Jason

Ohio-based Adena Health System announced it will implement Epic EHR after expanding its partnership with The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. Providing care to more than 400,000...

UVM Health Delays Epic EHR Implementation After Cyberattack, COVID-19

by Christopher Jason

The University of Vermont (UVM) Health Network announced it will revise and delay its upcoming Epic EHR implementation phases following a major cyberattack and subsequent COVID-19 vaccine...

Year in Review: Most Read EHR, Interoperability Stories of 2020

by Christopher Jason

As one of the most tumultuous years in healthcare delivery draws to a close, the most read stories of 2020 spotlight the biggest concerns, challenges, and innovation areas that were top of mind for...

Epic Systems Tops Major EHR Vendors in Health IT Interoperability

by Christopher Jason

Epic Systems is leading the way among EHR vendors and is making strides toward universal interoperability and patient data sharing, according to KLAS’s EMR Interoperability 2020...

Epic Systems Hits Record 221M Patient Data Exchanges in October

by Christopher Jason

Epic Systems has announced it facilitated over 221 million patient data exchanges through its Care Everywhere platform in October, a roughly 40 percent increase from the same time last year. As the...

UC San Diego Accelerates Interoperability with Local EHR Integration

by Christopher Jason

Integrating EHRs from a learning institution and its affiliated academic medical center boosts interoperability and improves patient care and patient safety, according to a study published in the...

4-State Health System Taps Epic to Boost Interoperability

by Christopher Jason

Ballad Health, a health system serving 21 counties across Tennessee, Virginia, North Carolina, and Kentucky, deployed Epic Systems EHR, in an effort to ensure interoperability among its over 20...

Top EHR Implementations of 2020, So Far

by Christopher Jason

When the novel coronavirus began its spread across the United States, it transformed healthcare in its entirety. That includes the health IT sector, where EHR vendors had to brainstorm and develop new...

Epic Systems Tool to Boost EHR Data Exchange for Payer, Providers

by Christopher Jason

Epic Systems has announced a partnership with Health Care Service Corporation, a Mutual Legal Reserve Company (HCSC), to create an interoperable information exchange between providers, payers, and...

Epic Systems Takes the Leap to Remote, Virtual EHR Implementation

by Christopher Jason

Valley Children’s Healthcare, which provides care for over 1.4 million children in the Madera County area of California, has completed a remote, virtual EHR implementation with Epic Systems. This...

Epic Systems Community Connect Users Completely Unsatisfied

by Christopher Jason

Midsize to large ambulatory health facilities that choose Epic System’s Community Connect model are less satisfied than those that choose to work directly with the vendor, according to a 2020...

Epic, Cerner Win Most EHR Contracts Among Community Hospitals

by Kate Monica

Epic and Cerner won more EHR contracts with community hospitals than any other vendor over the past 12 months, according to an April 2018 KLAS report. The report focused on the EHR selection,...

Allscripts Debuts Machine Learning, Cloud-Based EHR System Avenel

by Kate Monica

This week at HIMSS18 in Las Vegas, Allscripts debuted a machine learning EHR system — Avenel — designed to reduce time spent on clinical documentation and boost EHR usability for...

2017 KLAS Report Names Epic, InterSystems Worldwide Frontrunners

by Kate Monica

EHR purchasing spiked worldwide with Epic Systems and InterSystems snagging more clients than their competitors in 2016, according to the most recent. Research shows the factors fueling most global...

EHR Success story: a large California facility’s experience with EHR

by kathy.tong@bmhcc.org

“With EHR, the record is available when and where I need it. Paper charts used to get lost; that’s not a problem anymore.” That’s how Anne Thompson of Palo Alto Medical...