Since the federal government pushed the use of electronic health records in 2009, there has been a race among vendors to sell the software solutions to health systems, reports Modern Healthcare. In 2017, Cerner and Epic were used by approximately the same percentage of acute-care hospitals. By the end of 2022, Epic was in 35.9% of hospitals compared with 24.9% from Cerner/Oracle Health, according to KLAS Research. Those statistics underplay Epic’s dominance inside the biggest hospitals. Read more.
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