Becker's Healthcare August 28, 2024
Vanderbilt Home Care, the home care division of Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanderbilt University Medical Center, successfully transitioned to Epic for its electronic health records in January, a strategic move to its outdated EHR system.
Amy Harrison, RN, MSN, president of Vanderbilt Home Care, told Becker’s that its previous EHR system was hindered by manual processes and inefficiencies. Epic emerged as the clear choice, given its existing integration with Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
The transition spanned approximately 15 months and involved extensive collaboration across multiple teams within VUMC. But, one of the unique challenges of the integration was ensuring that the financial metrics of home care could be segregated from those of the broader hospital system.
“We had to work very...
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