Becker's Healthcare September 9, 2024
“The cost of inflation, the cost of goods and the technology costs are only going up. On average, we spent about $300 million a year in capital in just IT,” Joe Moscola, executive vice president of enterprise services, told Becker’s. “We’re also going through an implementation of Epic and that’s going to cost us $1.2 billion.”
Northwell announced in March that it would switch from an Allscripts EHR system to an Epic one with the first go-live of the new system slated for 2025.
Mr. Moscola said that the reason Northwell decided on Epic was because the health system “needed...