Becker's Healthcare January 24, 2025
St. Louis-based SSM Health, a nonprofit Catholic health system operating across four states with 24 hospitals and 300 ambulatory facilities, is embarking on a new initiative called “Project One.”
The project aims to rebuild the organization’s foundational systems and workflows, focusing on upgrading its Epic EHR system.
SSM Health has been an Epic customer since 2005, but as the organization has grown, its use of the EHR system has faced challenges.
“At one point, we had multiple instances of Epic and other EHRs. Over the years, we unified them, but disparities remained in how the system was built and workflows were implemented,” Saad Chaudhry, chief digital and information officer at SSM Health, told Becker’s.
Historically, SSM Health operated as a...