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UC San Diego Health has launched a new "mission control center" to improve patient flow and care coordination throughout the hospital. Optimizing flow across UCSD’s three hospitals requires knowing when a patient should be ready to go home. UCSD uses Epic to help physicians record how long they expect a patient will be hospitalized—and to say what needs to be done before discharge. That information flows right over to each patient’s nurses and case managers, helping those folks prevent bottlenecks and get patients home sooner. Great work, folks! Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gX77a678

Moving from 10 EHRs to a single, integrated platform certainly is “an organization transformation.” Our friends at UPMC are set to go live with the first wave of their Epic install—covering around 40% of the organization—in September. In this article, Chris Carmody, UPMC’s CTO, shares his perspective on the journey. From Chris: "The more you plan, the more open and transparent discussions you have with all the key stakeholders, the better position an organization will be in...this is not an IT project by any means. It's enabled by IT, but this truly is an organization transformation that we're embarking on." An EHR implementation is a big lift for any organization, large or small. Congrats to everyone at UPMC for all of your hard work so far! Read more: https://lnkd.in/gBKRcZch #healthcare #healthIT #innovation

Ready for Friday already? Us too—but maybe not for the same reason as you. Friday is Pi Day. March 14th. At Epic—a proud haven for nerds—we honor the day all week. There’s a lot in store: the Pi-K run/walk (that’s 3.14k) so staff can preemptively burn a few calories, an open mic session where performers have 3 minutes and 14 seconds to showcase their talents in front of their colleagues, and the first ever Pi-Ku poetry contest where we ditch the traditional 5-7-5 haiku format for something more well-rounded (3-1-4 syllables!). The main event: delicious hand pies made by our culinary team, served precisely at 1:59 PM. This year’s flavors are chocolate, cherry, and the “Epic’s choice” winner, peach! 🥧

Dental care is health care. Today we celebrate the contributions dentists have on oral health and well-being.   Oral health is closely linked to overall health, and poor oral hygiene can contribute to or worsen other health conditions like heart disease, diabetes, Alzheimer’s, and arthritis.   Wisdom, Epic’s dental application, gives dentists a comprehensive view of the patient’s dental chart alongside the rest of their medical record—medical history, allergies, medications, and more—so they can make informed decisions and better care for the patient as a whole. #Healthcare #HealthIT #DentalCare

Calling all health IT innovators! Mark your calendars for the first-ever Open@Epic Conference—an event where industry leaders and developers come together to explore new ways to connect with health systems that use Epic. This is your chance to dive into the latest APIs and integration tools, hear directly from experts driving collaboration in healthcare technology, and network with peers who are shaping the future of digital health. 📅 See you this September! Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gTCfFrKU #HealthIT #Healthcare #Interoperability

To our friends here at HIMSS: if your first night in Vegas wasn’t too wild, stop by our booth to say hello. Actually, stop by either way. We love a great story 😉 Here’s what you can expect: https://lnkd.in/eFs4r38E

Got a few minutes? Take a look at our 2024 Year in Review. It’s our way of recognizing what Epic community members have achieved together over the past year, and a great reminder of why we do what we do. Congrats to all of our customers!

We’ve added to Showroom. About a year ago, we launched showroom.epic.com to provide a single place to see many of the products that work with Epic. There are now 7 products listed in Workshop (new, collaborative development), 26 products in Toolbox (products in specific categories that follow integration best practices), and 789 products listed in Connection Hub (any product with a live connection at an Epic site). Now, Toolbox has a new category: Identity Verification for MyChart. When patients create or recover MyChart accounts, they need to prove that they are who they say they are. Apps in this category can help make that easy. We’re kicking things off with CLEAR. You might know them from your local airport. Showroom has a lot going on, and we’re going to do a better job of sharing more with you here. Look out for more in the coming weeks. #healthcare #healthIT #collaboration

More time with patients, less time on the road. That’s what GBMC HealthCare and Gilchrist, a non-profit provider that offers end-of-life care and home care for patients with serious illnesses, saw when they partnered to implement a new map-based scheduling feature in Epic. Using Epic, schedulers at GBMC and Gilchrist can visualize their home visits within their local communities, allowing them to create more efficient driving routes. Home care aides now spend 15% less time driving and complete 2,600 more home visits each year, resulting in more than $800,000 saved annually. Great work, folks! #Healthcare #HealthIT #HomeCare

The temperature these days is pretty negative. Like…negative 5 on the way to work. (Brrrr!🥶) The best way to warm things up? We’ve found a cozy fire will do. Here's to winter warmth!