Healthcare Innovation January 16, 2025
Beth Israel’s Terrance Lee, M.D., M.P.H., and Boston Children’s Hospital’s Chase Parsons, D.O., share their experiences with their go-live processes
In June 2024, two Boston-area hospitals went live with transitions to unified Epic EHR platforms. As part of the Harvard Clinical Informatics Lecture Series, chief medical information officers from Beth Israel Lahey Health and Boston Children’s Hospital recently discussed the benefits of the transition and some of the challenges they faced along the way.
“It was funny for us to go live at the same time, because I’m sure all the Boston-area hotels were booked with Epic support,” said Terrance Lee, M.D., M.P.H., associate chief medical information officer at Beth Israel Lahey Health.
The stories that Lee and Chase Parsons,...