EHR

The digital health record system has been piloted in Hanoi and the Thua Thien-Hue Province.

While there's been progress across government and industry, the agency said the new technology strategy emphasizes health equity, public health, AI and cybersecurity to better connect the health system with health data "for all health IT users."

ChristianaCare and UAB Health are set to make the move to Epic, while Oracle has a new pair of critical access hospitals to its CommunityWorks suite and is looking "beyond the EHR."

An investigation into the incident, now being handled by the Department of Justice, is reportedly trying to determine whether Gov. Tim Walz or Sen. J.D. Vance’s health records were shared as a result of the insider breaches.

It wants the information released so patients, health systems, interoperability advocates and others "can evaluate the facts for themselves."

Robert Slepin, emeritus CIO advisor at Epic, explains why with the story of JCL Connect, a complex business, clinical, and IT infrastructure transformation program at John C. Lincoln Health Network in Phoenix.

Also, Breast Cancer Foundation New Zealand is set to launch a national programme ensuring cancer therapy adherence.

Robert Slepin, who has decades of experience as a health IT leader, offers his considered insights about the art and science of change management – helping health system C-suite and IT execs manage the demands of a fast-changing future.

So says a new OIG audit, which found the VA and Oracle Health have been misaligned in their responses to outages throughout Electronic Health Record Modernization. While the agency has made procedural improvements, it needs to go further, auditors say.

The high-stakes lawsuit alleges that the EHR giant violated federal law prohibiting unfair business practices. Epic, meanwhile, says that Particle has violated HIPAA.