What You Should Know:
- Oracle Health has announced a major breakthrough with its next-generation Electronic Health Record (EHR), which is now certified and available for adoption by ambulatory customers in the U.S..
- The new EHR earned the ONC Health IT certification from the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) and successfully met the DEA’s Electronic Prescriptions for Controlled Substances (EPCS) compliance requirements. These certifications confirm the platform meets
Read More
Electronic Health Records (EHRs) | Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) | News, Analysis, Insights - HIT Consultant
Natera Integrates Oncology Testing into Flatiron’s OncoEMR® to Streamline Cancer Care
What You Should Know:
- Natera, Inc., a global leader in cell-free DNA and precision medicine, and Flatiron Health, a healthtech company focused on oncology solutions, have announced the integration of Natera’s oncology testing portfolio into OncoEMR®, Flatiron’s cloud-based Electronic Medical Record (EMR) platform.
- The two-way integration allows for seamless electronic ordering and results delivery of Natera's oncology tests, including the molecular residual disease (MRD) test
Read More
AvaSure Achieves Epic Toolbox Designation for Inpatient Virtual Care
What You Should Know:
- AvaSure, the market leader in acute virtual care, is proud to announce that its Virtual Care Platform has achieved designation in Epic’s Toolbox for the Inpatient Virtual Care category.
- This recognition confirms that AvaSure’s Virtual Care Platform has successfully met Epic’s recommended practices for integration and functionality in this category.
AvaSure Earns Epic Toolbox Designation, Advancing Intelligent Virtual Care Integration
AvaSure®—a pioneer in
Read More
athenahealth Unveils AI-Native Clinical Encounter to Reimagine the Future of EHRs
What You Should Know:
- athenahealth, a leading provider of network-enabled software and services for healthcare practices and systems nationwide, today introduced its AI-native clinical encounter, a reimagined experience that anticipates clinicians’ needs, surfaces relevant insights at the moment of care, and drafts documentation, orders, and diagnoses based on the clinician-patient conversation.
- This new AI-native experience will transform the EHR from a system of record into
Read More
VectorCare Launches SMART on FHIR App to Transform Patient Logistics and Discharge Coordination
What You Should Know:
- VectorCare, a provider of modern patient logistics and care coordination technology, today announced the launch of its new SMART on FHIR app, now featured in the Epic App Market.
- The app allows healthcare systems using major EHRs, including Epic, Cerner, and Allscripts, to embed VectorCare's full patient logistics management capabilities directly within their existing workflows. The goal is to transform how hospitals coordinate discharges and
Read More
WellSky Launches AI Ambient Listening in Specialty Care EHR to Cut Documentation Time by 41%
What You Should Know:
- WellSky, a leading health and community care technology company, announced the launch of an AI-powered ambient listening feature within its Specialty Care electronic health record (EHR) solution.
- Enabled by Suki, a pioneer in healthcare AI, the WellSky Ambient Listening solution is designed to deliver secure, efficient, and intelligent documentation directly into the clinical workflow of providers in behavioral health, rehabilitation, and long-term
Read More
Datavant and athenahealth Partner to Automate Medical Record Release at Scale
What You Should Know:
- Datavant, a data collaboration platform, and athenahealth, Inc., a provider of network-enabled software and services announced an anticipated partnership aimed at transforming the historically manual and fragmented process of medical record requests and releases.
- By bringing together athenahealth’s market-leading EHR platform with Datavant’s expertise in health data exchange, the companies plan to build a modern, comprehensive infrastructure for data
Read More
Beyond EHR Migration: Why Legacy Data is the Strategic Asset Healthcare CIOs Can’t Ignore
When healthcare organizations undertake system transitions, whether migrating to a new EHR, consolidating platforms through M&A, or onboarding new providers through collaborative systems like EPIC Community Connect, the focus is often on what’s ahead. New systems. Streamlined operations. Integrated care. But what’s left behind matters just as much.
Legacy data has long been seen as a liability, whether it be a cost center, a compliance risk, an operational hurdle– or all the above. Yet
Read More
Epic Outlines Roadmap for Next-Generation Data Sharing at Open@Epic
What You Should Know:
- Nearly 1,000 experts gathered at the developer-focused Open@Epic conference to discuss the future of healthcare data sharing.
- During the event, Epic outlined its plans for expanding interoperability, simplifying patient-driven data connections, and enhancing support for app developers. In the past year alone, over 745 billion data exchanges took place using Epic’s publicly available APIs.
Easier Patient-Driven Data Connections
Epic's new
Read More
The New Digital Frontier: How QHIN-Connected EHRs Level the Playing Field for Community Hospitals
In the past, technology was often used as a wedge against local hospital independence. Big systems would offer subsidized EHRs, and in exchange, small hospitals would give up control—over workflows, over data, over their futures. “Community Connect” models promised integration but too often delivered dependency.
That doesn’t have to be the future.
Thanks to the emergence of Qualified Health Information Networks (QHINs) under TEFCA, the national interoperability infrastructure is finally
Read More
