Epic Systems news from FierceEMR
NewsMany ambulatory EMR users not ready for MU
More 80 percent of the nearly 600 ambulatory providers interviewed by KLAS who have purchased an electronic medical record (EMR) are confident they will qualify for Meaningful Use in 2011. However, Read more...
IOM kicks off study of EMR safety as FDA regulation looms
The Institute of Medicine is back on the EMR beat. This week, the IOM Committee on Patient Safety and Health Information Technology held its first meeting as it embarks on a yearlong study of medical Read more...
Epic leads 2010 'Best in KLAS' honorees
Epic Systems is the top-ranked vendor in the 2010 "Best in KLAS" report from industry analyst KLAS Enterprises. Epic, the closely held, Verona, Wis.-based EMR vendor with a knack for winning Read more...
Community hospitals increasingly look to large EMR vendors
Smaller hospitals increasingly are looking to the big clinical information systems vendors for their EMR and other point-of-care IT needs, mainly because they believe the vendors that have Read more...
Hospital system promotes EHR via Twitter, Facebook, YouTube
Texas Health Resources has invested millions toward installing an Epic Systems EHR over the last five years. To spread the word about the advantages of the technology, the 24-hospital system based in Read more...
DoD to replace EMR after $2B upgrade only a mild success
Federal agencies that have their own health systems have been busy pondering the future of their EMRs, and some actually have taken steps forward recently. Of particular note, the Department of Read more...
Epic sales soaring, particularly in home state of Wisconsin
Epic Systems "is winning three to four times more [contracts] than anyone else," KLAS Enterprises Chairman Kent Gale tells the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. And the Verona, Wis.-based vendor is doing Read more...
ARRA fueled doubling of 2009 EMR sales
Fueled by the prospect of federal incentive payments courtesy of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, sales of acute-care EMRs to large hospitals nearly doubled in 2009, according to health IT Read more...
Cost of EMR ownership often much higher than expected
Surprise, surprise! Even as buyers have grown more savvy and able to find a cost-effective EMR, the true cost of ownership of an acute-care EMR often is far higher than expected, KLAS Enterprises Read more...
Report: Epic likely to get massive contract to replace DoD's AHLTA EHR
A week ago, FierceEMR reported that the man who would be top doc at the Pentagon--Dr. Jonathan Woodson, President Obama's nominee for assistant secretary of defense for health affairs--wants the Read more...
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