From detailing plans to release AI validation software to expanding its payer platform, here are 12 updates on Epic's operations, software products and partnerships reported by Becker'sin April:
- Epic Systems broke ground on its newest campus and said it is continuing to grow its workforce and customers.
- Vanderbilt Home Care, Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanderbilt Medical Center's home-based care program, went live with an Epic EHR system.
- Albany (N.Y.) Medical Center went live with an Epic EHR system.
- Rockledge, Fla.-based Health First said it plans to spend more than $160 million over the next two years to transition to an Epic EHR system.
- On April 11, Epic Systems notified customers it is cutting off data access to a startup called Particle Health, alleging the company has been misusing patient data.
- Epic's founder and CEO, Judy Faulkner, wrote in a blog post that the company was once a victim of industrial espionage.
- Epic's nurse-sensitive indicators and outcomes were integrated into Press Ganey's National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators.
- Springfield, Mo.-based Jordan Valley Community Health Center said it is moving to an Epic EHR system.
- Epic Systems told Becker's it is releasing AI validation software.
- Epic's Payer Platform expanded to include Cohere Health's artificial intelligence-driven prior authorization solutions.
- Orange, Calif.-based UCI Health said it will transition four former Tenet hospitals it acquired to an Epic EHR system.
- Epic implementations can take years but health systems can start going live with the EHR in a matter of months, Epic implementation executive Nick Frenzer told Becker's.