What You Should Know: - Intermountain Health, one of the largest not-for-profit healthcare systems based in Salt Lake City announced the implementation of Epic’s enterprise EHR platform across the organization by the end of 2025. Intermountain’s current contract with Cerner is slated to end by November. - The deployment will establish a single, unified EHR platform across 33 hospitals and 385 clinics across seven states to optimize cost savings, patient experience, and interoperability.
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UPMC to Replace Oracle Cerner with Epic Enterprise EHR by 2026
What You Should Know: UPMC announced it is replacing Oracle Cerner with Epic’s enterprise EHR platform to create a unified platform across its health system, representing more than six million patient records. UPMC previously deployed Epic in its outpatient space, Pittsburgh Post Gazette reports.UPMC cites lowering operational costs, optimizing security, and improving patient engagement as reasons for the EHR replacement.Migration of all UPMC patient records to Epic’s EHR platform is expected
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Suki Launches Enhanced Ambient Integration with Cerner EHR
What You Should Know: Building upon the introduction of bi-directional ambient sync for Epic, Suki, the leader in voice artificial intelligence (AI) technology for healthcare, is announcing a similar enhancement for Cerner.The most recent iteration of Suki Assistant empowers Cerner users to expedite the creation of clinical documentation with greater ease and efficiency, thereby alleviating cognitive load and reducing documentation time. Through the utilization of ambient
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Nashville General Hospital Deploys Oracle Health EHR
What You Should Know: Safety net hospital Nashville General Hospital today announced a strategic partnership with Oracle Health to implement its CommunityWorks EHR platform. Oracle Health’s CommunityWorks will replace multiple systems with one united EHR that will enable clinicians to access patient records from the 150-bed hospital and more than 20 outpatient and clinic settings across the county. CommunityWorks EHR Implementation Benefits Oracle Health’s
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Get Well to Roll Out New Social Determinants of Health Screening Solution Nationwide
What You Should Know: Get Well, a global leader in digital patient engagement, today announced it has expanded its industry-leading digital patient engagement portfolio to include new social determinants of health (SDOH) screening solutions.The new solution will be available to more than 200 enterprise healthcare organizations nationwide that are using GetWell Inpatient, an interactive patient care and hospital experience management product, at no additional cost. Enabling Enterprise
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KLAS: Ambulatory and Enterprise EMR Interoperability 2023
What You Should Know: Interoperability is a continued area of critical focus for the healthcare industry, according to a new report by KLAS.For its latest report, KLAS talked to vendor-identified deep adopters to take a holistic look at the current state of interoperability in ambulatory and enterprise EMRs and measure how close we are to an ideal state. The results reveal each vendor’s strengths and weaknesses within various areas of interoperability. Exploring Ambulatory and
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LifeOmic Launches Patient Engagement App to Automate Patient Pathways
What You Should Know: LifeOmic, a healthcare technology company powering precision health with its end-to-end software solution, the LifeOmic Platform, today announced the launch of its Patient Mobile App. LifeOmic’s Patient Mobile App enables the two-way connection between the healthcare team and patient. With the LifeOmic Patient Mobile App, healthcare providers have access to a highly configurable solution that integrates directly into their existingworkflows to meet
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FDA & Cerner Enviza Collaborate to Develop AI Tools for Drug Safety
What You Should Know: - Cerner Enviza, an Oracle company, and FDA’s Sentinel Innovation Center are teaming up to develop AI tools to extract and assess clinical notes to better understand drug safety. - Teaming with John Snow Labs, Cerner Enviza will use AI and NLP to develop tools to extract information from clinical notes within the EHR to better aid in better understanding the effects of medicines on large populations. The project known as the Multi-source Observational
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KLAS Reveals Some Providers Lack Confidence in Oracle Cerner’s Roadmap/Vision
What You Should Know: Cerner, one of the major software vendors in healthcare IT, has gone through significant changes over the last year and a half. In October 2021, they announced a new CEO and introduced RevElate as their go-forward patient accounting platform. Two months later, Oracle announced their intent to acquire Cerner. Customers soon reached out to KLAS, wanting to know about their peers’ experiences with these changes.To gather this information, KLAS has been meeting regularly
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KLAS: State of Small-Hospital Patient Accounting 2023
What You Should Know: - Small hospitals are changing their EMRs and patient accounting systems at a greater rate than that of their large-hospital counterparts. Most market selection energy is going to Oracle Health (Cerner), MEDITECH, and Epic; small hospitals also use other vendors like athenahealth, CPSI, and MEDHOST. - While many vendors offer viable clinical systems, there are significant differences across the customer experience with patient accounting that should not be overlooked
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