Becker's Healthcare August 30, 2022
New Orleans-based Ochsner Health is the first health system to integrate its EHR with an Epic application that aims to provide individualized cancer treatment.
As part of the program, Epic partners with Tempus, a biotech company that analyzes cancer cells at the molecular level
“We’ve found that these EHR integrations significantly reduce the amount of time physicians spend ordering and reviewing our clinical tests and reports, and as a result spend more time with their patients, equipped with the data needed to make informed treatment decisions,” said James Chen, MD, senior vice president of cancer informatics at Tempus, in an Aug. 29 Ochsner Health news release.
The technology will...