Trinity Health to complete rollout of $800Mn Epic platform
MICHIGAN, UNITED STATES — Trinity Health, which rolled out the Epic Electronic Health Record (EHR) across its 101 hospitals starting in early 2020, expects to complete the installation by June 2025.
The deployment was halted during the pandemic and resumed in mid-2021.
Trinity Health has used multiple EHRs because of all the hospitals it acquired or merged with through the years. It previously used the Oracle Health and Athenahealth EHR platforms before deciding to switch to Epic in 2018.
Dan Roth, chief clinical officer of Trinity Health, said that the initiative will allow the firm’s 121,000 employees and 36,000 physicians to communicate on one common EHR. Roth added that the $800 million investment is worth it, given the benefits it would bring to improve day-to-day operations and patient care.
“What’s impossible to quantify from a financial perspective is everything it does that makes things easier for patients,” he added, per Becker’s Health IT.
Trinity Health has been integrating Epic’s tools, such as the Cheers customer management platform.
HealthIT.gov defines EHR as a “digital version of a patient’s paper chart.” It contains a patient’s medical history, diagnoses, medications, treatment plans, immunization dates, allergies, radiology images, and laboratory and test results.
Among the benefits of an EHR platform are quick and coordinated access to the patient’s records, secure sharing with other healthcare providers, and streamlined coding and billing, among others.
