Healthcare Informatics January 9, 2017
Rajiv Leventhal

The University of Vermont Medical Center has filed a certificate of need (CON) application with the state of Vermont to create a unified electronic health record (EHR) across four hospitals in the University of Vermont Health Network.

Officials of the organization said that a unified EHR will “significantly improve patient care by having all of a patient’s information available to a health care provider regardless of location whenever it is needed.”

According to a press release announcement, the capital cost associated with the project subject to CON review is $112.4 million, which includes $3.1 million in capitalized interest. The total cost of the project over the first six years of implementation and operation is $151.6 million. If done independently, it...

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Topics: EMR / EHR, Health IT, Health System / Hospital, HIE (Interoperability), HIM (Health Inf Mgmt), HITECH, Patient / Consumer, Payer, Physician, Population Health Mgmt, Primary care, Provider, RCM (Revenue Cycle Mgmt)
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