KLAS global share, RHTP momentum, and the ePA countdown.
Prepared for healthcare CIOs, CMOs, and health system operators. Coverage window: prior week plus highly relevant recent context. Every item carries a source and suggested strategic follow-ups.
Epic keeps winning globally while Oracle Health wobbles. KLAS Global 2026: Epic +34 international hospitals in 2025, nearly all Community Connect; Oracle logged 34 hospital losses. Global purchasing at its lowest volume in a decade.
AI governance is now the job, not the pilot. Accountability, hallucination control, and stack simplification have replaced deployment as the CIO's central challenge, the week's dominant theme across the trades.
The regulatory clock ticks on two fronts. HIPAA Security Rule final action targeted July 2027; CMS FHIR ePA compliance lands Jan 1, 2027; AMA SNOMED-to-CPT mappings and the CMS Connectathon are the concrete signals.
KLAS: Epic grows global share; Community Connect is the vehicle
34 hospitals (6,580 beds) added internationally, all but one via Community Connect, including a 9-hospital Ontario consortium replacing MEDITECH Expanse.
MEDITECH launches RHTP Resource Center for rural hospitals
Support for applications under the $50B Rural Health Transformation Program. Retention strong: 84% of deciding MEDITECH customers chose Expanse.