HSHS St. Joseph’s Hospitals in Breese and Highland to Launch New Epic Electronic Health Record System
(BREESE AND HIGHLAND, IL) – HSHS St. Joseph’s Hospitals in Breese and Highland will soon go live with Epic, a new electronic health record (EHR) system as part of their ongoing commitment to patient safety while also continuing to streamline health information sharing with other providers.
With the addition of both St. Joseph’s Hospitals in Breese and Highland, Hospital Sisters Health System (HSHS) is completing a four-year $112 million initiative to ensure that patients and providers served by HSHS hospitals and their affiliated partners (Prairie Cardiovascular and HSHS Medical Group) have access to the most advanced electronic health record currently available.
Information contained in the EHR includes care orders, test results, physician notes and reports, as well as patients’ medical history. Epic provides a technology platform for this information to be shared with nurses, physicians and other caregivers in one integrated system. It will enhance transparent communication across locations and specialties. The go live date for both hospitals in is Saturday, June 8.
“Epic is a widely used health record system, used not only by our HSHS hospitals, but also by many of our physician partners, like HSHS Medical Group and Prairie Cardiovascular Consultants,” said Whitney Mendoza, IT service manager for both St. Joseph’s Hospitals. “By using the same EHR, clinicians will have access to more complete and accurate information about the care of their patients at either of our hospitals or at any of our clinics.”
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