CONWAY — On Saturday, Memorial Hospital will flip a switch to usher in a new era.
The much-anticipated Epic electronic records system will replace three systems now in place at Memorial to let doctors quickly access lab work and other test results as well as data from medical visits at the North Conway hospital and throughout the MaineHealth system.
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