The absence of bedside phones in UCHealth's new behavioral health unit was an intentional design choice for safety and security reasons, but this meant that patients could not call the kitchen to order their meals like the rest of the health system. Instead of having nursing staff call orders for the patient, UCHealth gave nurses access to Illumia, their existing MyChart-integrated meal orders app, to order through instead. To properly map allergies to automated dietary compliance systems, they updated how they handled documentation from free text to coded, system-recognized allergies. Whereas the alternative of having nursing staff call orders would've resulted in longer wait times for other patients, this solution ensured that the call center was not bogged down. Now, 99% of the meal orders are inputted through the app for this unit, allowing patients to receive their meals safely and on time. Read more: https://lnkd.in/gPGys8hC
Happy Fresh Veggies Day! Epic employees can reserve a garden plot in the organic community garden on the Verona campus to grow vegetables, herbs, and flowers for personal use. Lettuce know what you think of the gardeners’ bountiful harvest!
Each year in Verona, the first week of June marks Epic’s annual Connect Collaboration event. Over the last few days, 650 members from Epic Community Connect hosts and sites attended 50+ sessions to learn about successful Connect partnerships, meaningful outcomes at peer Connect sites, and best practices to take back home.
Reid Health patients can now chat with Emmie about their health, right in MyChart. Epic staff were on site this week helping patients get acquainted with their newest personal health assistant. https://lnkd.in/gZNzW9Kf
On Saturday, Santé Québec brought 28,000 end users across two regions live on Epic, bringing staff from paper records and fax to a unified electronic system where health data follows patients where they get care. Santé Québec is the second Epic system translated into French and the second system in Canada hosted by Epic. Read more (in French) here: https://lnkd.in/gMpddi8h
High blood pressure affects 1/3rd of adults in the United States and is one of the leading risk factors for cardiovascular disease or stroke. Home blood pressure monitoring helps patients better understand and manage their hypertension, typically resulting in lower overall blood pressure readings. At Baptist Health System KY & IN in Kentucky, they identified patients with uncontrolled hypertension during clinic visits by surfacing a visual reminder for physicians to enroll patients in their home monitoring program. Patients receive educational material about high blood pressure and daily tasks to complete, such as taking their medication and submitting blood pressure readings, through MyChart Care Companion. Bluetooth-enabled blood pressure cuffs take readings for patients which are filed into MyChart and the patient’s chart where providers can regularly review them to spot concerning trends early and provide guidance, when necessary. Baptist has enrolled more than 1,000 patients in their program since 2023 and 67% of those patients have achieved their blood pressure goals. Additionally, patients in the program experienced an average systolic blood pressure decrease of 10-11 mmHg and an average diastolic decrease of 3-4 mmHg, which is on par with prescribing a new medication for the patient. Nice work, Baptist!
XGM is off to an incredible start! We're excited for two weeks of growth and learning alongside our customers!
Partnering with Rhode Island College, Care New England aims to strengthen Rhode Island's healthcare workforce by building a pipeline of nurses and healthcare administrators trained in cybersecurity, AI, data, and digital health. This includes integrating Epic training into their nursing and health sciences curriculum, providing hands-on experience to students. "Getting talent early, teaching them how Epic works and ensuring that when they become part of your organization they already understand how to do the work—that's extremely important," Care New England's chief digital information officer Tomas Gregorio said. Read more: https://lnkd.in/gh6ZCUTU
This month, Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust became the second trust in the county of Devon to go live with Epic’s unified electronic patient record (EPR), providing one online system for clinicians to do their daily workflows and giving patients a single location to access and manage their health information. "At the moment our clinical staff spend quite a lot of time handwriting notes, chasing blood results on different systems and checking for x-rays. But now, having all of that information in one system means that we'll spend less time doing admin and more time at a patient's bedside." said Nicola McMinn, chief nurse for Torbay and South Devon Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. Later this summer, the county will become the only one in England to use the same electronic patient record across all its NHS trusts. Congratulations! https://lnkd.in/dKmT5iB6
TGIF—we're in for a fun weekend of conferences! We'll be at AONL 2026 in Chicago to discuss what’s new in Epic for nursing, including new AI charting capabilities using Art. We'll also be at ACC 2026 in New Orleans to learn more about what’s new in Epic for cardiology, including new support for PREVENT risk scoring. Rounding out the weekend, we’ll be at SHMConverge26 in Nashville to help physicians and APPs cut clicks and save time.
