Chief Medical Information Officer, Matt Dunn, DO (left) and Ed Roy, RN look at an electronic medical records system at Memorial Hospital. The hospital will begin using the Epic medical records system on Dec. 1. (RACHEL ANDREWS DAMON PHOTO)
Tele-Talk question: What do you think of the latest step in Memorial Hospital’s MaineHealth unification, going to the Epic electronic records system?
Chief Medical Information Officer, Matt Dunn, DO (left) and Ed Roy, RN look at an electronic medical records system at Memorial Hospital. The hospital will begin using the Epic medical records system on Dec. 1. (RACHEL ANDREWS DAMON PHOTO)
A little over a year after Memorial Hospital’s trustees voted in favor of unification with MaineHealth, the North Conway hospital went live Saturday with the Epic electronic records system. According to Memorial’s interim CEO, Lee Myles, close to half of all hospitals in the U.S. already use Epic, and the much-anticipated switch will allow diagnostic and other data to be seamlessly shared and analyzed both internally and externally.
This week’s Tele-Talk question: What do you think of the latest step in Memorial Hospital’s MaineHealth unification, going to the Epic electronic records system?
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