Becker's Healthcare December 19, 2025
Orlando (Fla.) Health is consolidating its newly acquired mainland U.S. hospitals to a single instance of Epic to save money from “economies of scale,” its IT chief told Becker’s.
The $9.9 billion organization launched the EHR at three Florida facilities in 2025, with plans to do the same at Birmingham, Ala.-based Baptist Health’s five hospitals in summer 2026. While four of the campuses are already on Epic, it wouldn’t make financial sense to keep them on a separate instance of the EHR. Baptist Health’s four Epic hospitals use a local data center, while Orlando Health’s platform is hosted by the EHR vendor.
“From a cost perspective, it would be cost-prohibitive to maintain those two different environments,” Novlet Mattis, senior vice...
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