Epic Systems News and Resources for Healthcare

Novant Health Migrates Epic EHR To Healthcare Cloud Environment

July 12, 2019 - Novant Health, a North Carolina-based health system, is migrating its Epic electronic health record (EHR) to a healthcare cloud computing environment to improve efficiencies and meet regulatory requirements. Novant Health was looking for a more predictable cost model and improved business speed and agility for its EHR. It also wanted to avoid the...

Scripps Health Selects Avaya for Health IT Integration Program

March 13, 2019 by Fred Donovan

Scripps Health has turned to unified communications provider Avaya to bring its diverse systems into a comprehensive health IT integration platform. Scripps Health chose the Avaya IX Attendant...

Hasty EHR Integration Would Likely Fail, Warns BI Lahey CEO

March 05, 2019 by Fred Donovan

Failure would likely result from a hasty EHR integration effort, warned Kevin Tabb, president and CEO of Beth Israel (BI) Lahey Health, which was recently formed from the merger of Beth Israel...

Microsoft’s GitHub Acquisition Impacts Healthcare Open Source Dev

June 06, 2018 by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Microsoft announced its acquisition of GitHub, the web-based open source hosting service. Many healthcare organizations use GitHub for health IT related source code, so the acquisition could impact how...

Organizations Choose EDIS Integration Over Usability

October 18, 2017 by Elizabeth O'Dowd

KLAS released its latest report evaluating emergency department information systems (EDIS) integration and usability and rating the top vendors against each other. KLAS focused on the importance of...

EHR Interoperability Transformations Affect HIT Infrastructure

July 24, 2017 by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Surescripts announced the addition of 14 new health systems to its National Record Locator Service (NRLS), which aims to enhance EHR interoperability among disparate healthcare systems. The new health...

Catalogic Releases Expanded Database Virtualization Solution

April 20, 2017 by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Catalogic Software announced the availability of the newest version of its main software product, Catalogic ECX 2.6 featuring expanded in-place database virtualization technology. Catalogic ECX 2.6...