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Also: Elevance Health and CDR announced a national primary care platform for risk-based healthcare delivery that takes a whole health approach to improve patient outcomes.

Its new survey of inpatient purchasing finds Epic as the only vendor to increase its net market share in 2023 – gaining 153 new hospital clients and now covering more than half of acute care multispecialty beds nationwide.

As a result of an investigation into overdue financial reports and threats of Nasdaq delisting, Veradigm CEO Richard Poulton and CFO Leah Jones resigned at the request of the company's board on Friday. The IT vendor also announced a billing AI tool.

The goal of the new nationwide ecosystem is to simplify patient access through virtual care pathways that work in tandem with local delivery, enabling higher quality and cost efficiencies for providers, says Transcarent CEO Glen Tullman.

Among its success stories, the health system built an app that identifies more than 10 patients each week with potential malnutrition who then are referred to nutritionists.

By reducing the number of flowsheets and their content, they've made documentation more than 10 minutes faster. Across two years, the number of best practice alerts for nursing was reduced by 86%.

Healthcare IT is an evolutionary process, not a revolution, says one health tech executive.

The electronic health record vendor was accused by the DOJ of "misrepresenting the capabilities of certain versions of its EHR software" and providing kickbacks to customers to drive new sales.

The all-in-one practice management system reduced the amount of time a patient needs to spend in physical therapy, allowing therapists to see more patients without sacrificing the quality of treatment.

Epic achieved the only net positive change across electronic health record vendors, but Oracle Health had the highest growth in the small hospital market, according to the new study.