Boston Children’s Hospital rolls out hybrid 5G network as it plans to unify on Epic

Healthcare IT News September 27, 2023
Mike Miliard

The technology will lay the “groundwork for future healthcare innovations,” says the hospital’s CIO, with a scalable network able to support in-home remote patient monitoring and AI-enabled specialist prioritization.

Boston Children’s Hospital recently announced its plans to transition to a unified Epic electronic health record.

Similar to Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Health and Pittsburgh-based UPMC, Boston Children’s – which currently uses both Epic and Cerner PowerChart – says it plans to make the migration to a single Epic platform across all its care sites in 2024.

Boston Children’s IT department is “working hard to make this transition as painless as possible,” according to the hospital.

In tandem with that project, Boston Children’s is working on another major technology initiative....

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