Epic Systems Corp. news and information

Hospital systems, especially those that are purchasing physician practices and expanding outpatient clinics to pursue greater care coordination, face a pressing need to track patients no matter where they receive care. Interoperability between EHRs has...
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There are more than 200 mobile healthcare applications co-branded with healthcare organizations available on the two main online app marketplaces, Google Play and the Apple App Store, a new research report shows.
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Gail Carlson, chief nurse executive at 54-bed Alegent Creighton Health Midlands Hospital in Papillion, Neb., needs the same electronic medical-record system for all her hospital's ambulatory and in-patient facilities.
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The star of the Epic Systems Corp. user's group meeting that got underway in Verona, Wis., Tuesday was the venue itself, the cavernous five-story, 11,400-seat Deep Space auditorium that is literally buried into a hillside and designed so the view across the rolling Wisconsin campus would be...
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Physicians say they like to use medical scribes to handle EHR data entry because they find EHRs slow and clunky to use, interfering with their interactions with patients.
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Still recovering from the costly implementation of a new electronic medical-record system, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center will post an operating loss this fiscal year, medical center officials told investors Monday.
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The usability of electronic health-record systems varies widely, and developers of EHRs that do a lot of handholding after the sale score highest on usability ratings, according to a report by health information technology market researcher KLAS Enterprises.
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Epic Systems Corp. sits atop a heap of more than 400 developers of complete electronic health-record systems for ambulatory-care physicians and other eligible professionals who have received federal EHR incentive payments, federal data shows.
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Epic Systems Corp. and Meditech have the most customers receiving federal electronic health-record system incentive payments in the two key categories for hospital systems, federal data show.
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A public official in a small town in Maine claims there are links between the high costs of an electronic health records system and the decision to close tiny St. Andrews Hospital and Healthcare Center in nearby Boothbay Harbor. That may not be the case.
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