An Epic EHR conversion reaches nearly every part of a health system. It affects clinical care, revenue cycle, patient access, data, interfaces, devices, training, and support. A complete build does not mean the organization is ready. Leaders still need timely decisions, validated workflows, usable history, prepared users, and a practical transition plan. The eight pitfalls […]
Epic's Agent Factory and Curiosity raise a bigger question: Is your health system ready to govern AI agents? Here's how to prepare before 2027.
Epic Beacon is Epic's oncology and hematology application for adult and pediatric care. It connects treatment plans, therapy ordering and administration, staging, longitudinal tracking, and registry reporting with the rest of the patient's record. Oncology treatment is complex and safety-critical, so a Beacon implementation cannot belong to the application team alone. Clinical, pharmacy, nursing, informatics, […]
Epic Rover puts selected Epic workflows on supported handheld devices. With the right configuration, clinicians can use it for barcode medication administration, specimen collection, vital signs, task review, chart access, and other work at the bedside. The healthcare organization deploys and manages Rover; it is not a stand-alone consumer app. What users can do with […]
Is your healthcare organization using Epic to its full capacity? While many hospitals and health systems turn to Epic for their electronic health record system (EHR), a gap occurs between implementation and adoption. However, Epic’s Gold Stars program provides a roadmap that can help healthcare organizations bridge this gap and maximize their investment. Epic’s Gold […]
Healthcare organizations have traditionally treated their Electronic Health Record (EHR) and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems as separate IT application support functions. Different application managed services (AMS) vendors. Different governance structures. Different support organizations. Different conversations. The operational model behind Continuous Managed Services is platform-agnostic: it supports EHR and ERP platforms across the healthcare enterprise. […]
Epic OpTime is Epic's perioperative application for surgical and procedural care. It brings case scheduling, preoperative readiness, intraoperative documentation, supplies and implants, status tracking, charges, and reporting into a connected workflow for operating rooms and ambulatory surgery settings. OpTime is often used alongside Epic Anesthesia and other Epic clinical and revenue cycle applications. The exact […]
If your health system has been live on Epic for several years, you've probably had some version of this conversation. The CFO asks what the organization is getting from its Epic investment. The CMIO says clinicians are drowning in documentation. The IT director says the build queue is underwater. Everyone agrees something should change. Nobody can say, with evidence, what to fix first. Most tenured Epic […]
Not every healthcare AI job involves building a model. The field also needs people who understand clinical workflows, prepare reliable data, manage products, protect privacy, evaluate risk, and help new tools fit into everyday work. For most job seekers, the strongest path is to add practical AI knowledge to an established healthcare or technology specialty. […]
Epic Beaker is Epic's laboratory information system (LIS) for hospitals, clinics, patient service centers, and reference laboratories. It gives laboratory teams a place to manage orders, specimens, testing, results, and reports while keeping that information connected to the broader patient record. Beaker is commonly divided into two applications: Beaker Clinical Pathology (CP): Supports clinical laboratory workflows […]
Oracle Health Patient Accounting (OHPAC), also known as RevElate, is a major advancement in healthcare revenue cycle technology. Rather than forcing organizations to choose between a standalone patient accounting platform and a clinically integrated revenue cycle, OHPAC combines the strengths of both approaches. Dedicated patient accounting solutions, like OHPAC, allow for greater flexibility, scalability, and […]
The small town where I grew up had about 750 people and a county hospital. The hospital is gone now. The nearest emergency room sits more than 30 minutes away on a two-lane road. Since 2010, more than 200 rural facilities have closed or ended inpatient care. Mine was one of them. That experience is […]