What's Happening With Epic?
(Originally published on LinkedIn)
Partnerships
Epic has taken multiple efforts to ensure the highest level of connectivity, interoperability and access to information across health systems and healthcare providers.
Epic and Connected Care have partnered in July to implement its digital health record platform. Through Connected Care's platform of physician-led companies, Hospitals, medical groups, health plans, and independent practice associates will gain access to additional technology, services and products
In June, Epic partnered with Humana. As Epic first payer partnership, Humana is planning to integrate its real-time benefits check tool into Epic's electronic prescribing workflow. This will improve interoperability and transparency across providers
Epic added American Well's virtual care platform and several other programs to its App Orchard. This will allow Epic to conduct American Well-powered telehealth appointments and providers to use American Well's telemedicine carts to digitally partner with non-Epic medical facilities
Go-lives and implementations announced in the last 120 days
According to Becker's Healthcare, there have been 11 Epic EHR implementation announcements and go-lives in the last 120 days. Here is the list:
Sidney Regional Medical Center: Go-live in June 2020
Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Tower Health in West Reading, PA finished implementing 25 physician practices and five hospitals totaling 4,500 new users that went through 1,200 training classes
The University of Vermont Medical Center filed to add two additional hospitals to its $150+M Epic implementation with go-live in 2021
Novant Health migrated its Epic system to the cloud platform off of Virtustream
Tanner Health in GA launched Epic at 40 outpatient clinics and urgent care facilities. They have been a partner with Epic since March of 2017 to implement its five hospitals in November
Piedmont Columbus Regional, who started with Epic in 2012, launched Epic across several campuses within their $30M project to have a single records system at Piedmont Healthcare
Mohawk Valley Health System in NY deployed Epic in June
Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital in FL implemented Epic to align with the rest of the Johns Hopkins Medicine network
Baptist Health Floyd launched Epic in June to align with the with the other hospitals in the Baptist Health network
Owensboro Health Muhlenberg Community Hospital completed its 18 month, $2M implementation