After consuming more than a year of preparing, MidMichigan Health has decided a date for its go-live with an Epic Systems EHR that will link 5 of its six medical centers, doctors’ offices and outpatient care facilities.
MidMichigan Health, which is associated with the institute of University of Michigan, pegged the cost of the project at $55 million and officials pointed out that the new EHR would replace multiple vendor systems that needed maintaining several custom interfaces, which had become unsustainable. As such, registration, scheduling and billing will also be on the similar Epic platform.
“When we go live on the day of April 1, we will have more than 750 staff designated as super users who’ll offer support to those using the new system,” MidMichigan Health CIO Dan Waltz stated in a statement. “Our earlier system indicated us that we had a real opportunity to transform the way patient care is delivered. We have analyzed and incorporated best practices into the design of the system and have no doubt this EMR will give our sufferers all that they deserve and more.”
Waltz claimed more than 160 MidMichigan and Epic staff “worked around the clock” preparing for the rollout.
“The advantages of the new EMR to our sufferers are numerous,” Pankaj Jandwani, MD, chief medical information officer at MidMichigan Health, added. “Anywhere the sufferer goes within our system, a MidMichigan provider will have access to their complete medical record.
Jandwani added that the latest EHR would enable patients to do many more things electronically, like schedule appointments online, self-check-in from home or at on-site kiosks, take benefit of virtual care options like telemedicine and e-visits, and view and pay all MidMichigan Health bills from one account.
A second phase of the rollout will link MidMichigan Medical Center in Alpena, Mich. in the month of September 2017, and MidMichigan Home Care in the time period of spring 2018.
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