St. Charles Health Picks Epic as its EHR vendor

Health Data Management’s weekly roundup of health Information Technology contracts and deployments involves a move to the Epic electronic health records (EHRs) system by a four-hospital system in Oregon and the shift to a critical alert call system/real-time location system by a Six-hospital organization.

• St. Charles Health System, with 4 hospitals serving the Bend, Ore. region, is going with Epic as its next electronic health records (EHRs) vendor. The agency is in the final stages of contract negotiations and laying out the implementation timeline. Contract signing is hoped by mid-summer with a project kickoff in early fall. St. Charles hopes to hire more than 100 persons to staff its execution team and has begun recruiting.


• Six-hospital Genesis Health System facilitating the Quad Cities region of Iowa and Illinois is live in 4 hospitals with a critical alert nurse call system from Critical Alert Systems and Stanley Healthcare. The agency expects the new technology to assist to make better the HCAHPS scores, clinical staff productivity and operational efficiency. Stanley brings a real-time location system to the program.


• Open MRI of Allentown, Pa., will execute the eRAD radiology information system and supporting modules to automate more of its clinical and business workflows and make better the scheduling. The contract involves an insurance verification system. Open MRI, doing business as Allentown Diagnostic Imaging, also will utilize the new technology to supporting qualifying for Stage 2 EHR meaningful use incentive payments.


• Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust in the UK, hopes to go live on MEDITECH 6.0 by the end of the month May. The agency treats more than 30,000 sufferers yearly across ten sites. It also has a new specialist cancer center in Liverpool.