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Wolters Kluwer Health has collaborated with Epic to offer an integrated suite combining UpToDate Lexidrug, Medi-Span, and UpToDate Patient Education directly within Epic EHR workflows.The combined offering targets safety-net institutions facing budget and resource constraints, including rural hospitals, Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs), state hospitals, tribal healthcare organizations, and small ambulatory practices.The integrated bundle consolidates three
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Mount Sinai Medical Center Extends Epic’s Ambient AI to Inpatient Nursing
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Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami Beach has launched "Chart with Art," Epic's ambient AI documentation tool, for its inpatient nursing staff.The deployment makes Mount Sinai the first health system in Florida and the fourth nationwide to extend Epic's ambient listening technology to bedside nurses.The platform operates in both English and Spanish, accommodating a primary care community where over 30 percent of patients speak Spanish as their primary language.Inpatient
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MUSC Health Expands Epic-Integrated AI Agent “Emily” to Retail and Specialty Pharmacy Workflows
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MUSC Health expanded "Emily," its conversational AI agent built on SoundHound AI's platform, into retail and specialty pharmacy operations following 2.2+ million successful patient calls since its 2024 initial deployment.The expanded platform represents one of the first agentic voice implementations integrated directly into an Epic EHR environment for real-time transactional workflows.Patients can process prescription refills, receive real-time status updates, check
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RWJBarnabas Links Real-Time Epic EDI Alerts Directly to Rapid Response Teams
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A multi-hospital, 23,132-patient study led by RWJBarnabas Health and Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School (DOI: 10.1056/AIoa2500973) evaluated an enterprise rollout of the Epic Deterioration Index (EDI).Following implementation across 11 acute care hospitals, in-hospital mortality among high-risk patients (EDI score >60)dropped from 23.1% to 18.6%, representing an 18% reduction in the risk-adjusted odds of death.Rather than relying solely on passive EHR
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Nabla Launches On-Device Clinical Dictation App Native to macOS and Integrated with Epic
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Nabla has launched Nabla Dictation for Mac, an AI-native clinical speech-to-text application engineered specifically to run locally on Apple Silicon hardware.Rebuilt using Swift and Apple’s Core ML Tools, the platform executes speech activation, speech-to-text, and medical vocabulary post-processing on the Apple Neural Engine—eliminating cloud token costs, network latency, and server-side audio processing.Integrates natively into Epic workflows (including Epic Hyperdrive
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We Spent a Decade Filling EHRs. It’s Time to Make Them Pay Us Back.
A few years ago, a physician I worked with told me that her young daughter had started greeting her at the door with a question: “Mommy, how many charts do you have to finish today?” Her daughter had learned that the higher the number, the less of her mother she was going to get that night.
That story has stayed with me through more than two decades in clinical informatics, because it captures something the data has been telling us for years. Recent research from the American Medical
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Lapsi Health Partners with Redox to Integrate Keikku Clinical AI Platform Directly Into EHR Infrastructure
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Dutch-American clinical AI developer Lapsi Health has partnered with healthcare data interoperability leader Redox to natively connect Lapsi’s Keikku Clinical Platform into health system Electronic Health Record (EHR) environments.Addresses "point-solution fatigue" by embedding ambient clinical documentation, contextual reference, and diagnostic insights directly into existing chart workflows so clinicians never have to leave the EHR.Taps into the Redox Connection
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MEDITECH Partners with SPiER to Expand Expanse Depression and Suicide Prevention Toolkit
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MEDITECH has expanded its Depression and Suicide Prevention Toolkit within the Expanse EHR platform, embedding gold-standard clinical workflows to mitigate suicide risk across inpatient, ambulatory, and emergency departments.MEDITECH collaborated with the non-profit SPiER to secure copyrights and directly integrate validated, evidence-based tools into point-of-care clinical workflows.The toolkit leverages embedded surveillance tools to push real-time notifications to care
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KLAS Arch Collaborative 2026 Report: Early Insights into Epic AI Adoption and Clinician Experience
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Early metrics from the KLAS Arch Collaborative 2026 report confirm that clinicians using at least one artificial intelligence tool score 7 percentage points higher in believing the EHR enables operational efficiency compared to non-users.While clinical satisfaction surges as practitioners adopt up to four distinct AI tools, it rapidly plateaus; introducing five or more applications adds workflow clutter and digital noise rather than driving incremental value.A massive
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KLAS Releases Global Hospital EHR Market Share 2026 Report: Purchasing Decisions Hit 5-Year Low
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The KLAS Healthcare IT Insights division has published its flagship Global Hospital EHR Market Share 2026 report, revealing that total global EHR purchasing decisions plummeted to an almost five-year marketplace low.A strict capital tightening is reshaping international margins; the volume of impacted healthcare facilities (447 hospitals) and active clinical beds (81,261) represented the lowest deployment volume tracked by KLAS in at least a decade.Monolithic
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