Epic go-live finally arrives for St. Charles after 2-years of prep

Healthcare IT News: Oregon-based St. Charles Health System will go live with a $79.5 million Epic EHR implementation on April 7, after two years of planning and development. As EHR projects are some of the most challenging tech launches and Epic is known to be a complicated system, the planning stage was crucial to the project.

Before signing with Epic in 2016, St. Charles was running on two platforms: one for inpatient and the other for ambulatory services. EHR Project Director Chad Cagnolatti said that due to the organization’s strategy to have a more fully interoperable system, “Epic was a natural choice in that objective.”

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