Becker's Healthcare September 27, 2024
Giles Bruce

Rockledge, Fla.-based Health First is one of 19 new health systems moving to an Epic EHR. Here are six things to know.

1. The four-hospital system signed a five-year deal with Epic.

2. The implementation is estimated to cost $160 million. That doesn’t include ongoing costs to operate the EHR once it’s live.

It marks the largest technology investment in the health system’s history and one of the organization’s biggest spending projects overall (its new hospital, by comparison, has a price tag of $400 million).

3. Epic is expected to be fully operational in January 2026. Health First will use two instances of the EHR: Epic for the patient side and the vendor’s Tapestry platform for the health system’s payer...

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Topics: EMR / EHR, Health IT, Health System / Hospital, Provider, Technology
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