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Software systems that store patients' clinical histories and act as the transactional record for care delivered in hospitals and clinics.
One reporter who registered at 25 clinics and hospitals in seven states says an Ohio hospital will not follow its own policy on recordings. The essay says patients who refuse broad consent can be turned away, and later opt-out routes can be too confusing to use.
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Healthleap has raised $38 million for software that reads clinicians' notes overnight to flag malnutrition and delirium. Whether a hospital earns back the fee depends on someone acting on each flag and on finance agreeing how to credit the savings.
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Texas's attorney general puts the breach of Oracle Health's legacy Cerner systems at nearly 20 million people, according to Bloomberg. Oracle has not confirmed the figure, far above the counts in earlier state filings and patient notices.
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Researchers who surveyed 564 physicians found that data quality and system usability shape cognitive load through separate pathways. For leaders who blame a stalled rollout on user resistance, it means testing data and design separately before more money goes to training.
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Epic has stopped most product development for roughly six weeks while it fixes MyChart flaws that an AI model uncovered, according to TechCrunch. No list of affected portal setups is public yet, so hospitals cannot check theirs against one.
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Carnegie Mellon's Synthetic Hospital benchmark found agent wrappers often lowered scores for 10 models reading 1,268 synthetic multi-visit patient charts. The models found facts in the charts but struggled to combine them, so a scaffold that adds retrieval steps may be working on the wrong weakness.
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STAT reports investigators are asking about Epic's employee non-competes and its control of hospital data access. No charges are near, but procurement assumptions should move now.
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