All of the Montage Health entities, including Community Hospital, Montage Medical Group, Aspire Health Plan, and Community Health Innovations, along with participating clinicians outside of Montage Health, are using Epic. Information from laboratory, radiology, registration, pharmacy, surgery, doctors’ offices, and more can be integrated into one record. The Epic system also improves coordination of care across different parts of the local health system. “It makes our job easier but more important, it provides the patients with better, more coordinated care.”
“Care Everywhere is a good name for it because it facilitates care for those who see specialists everywhere,” Ellison says. As I was talking on the phone with the doctor at Stanford who manages the patient’s care, we were both looking at the same results. “With the touch of a button, all of his results were right there. “A man who had a heart transplant at Stanford came to our ED complaining of chest pain,” Ellison says. John Ellison, a doctor in Community Hospital’s emergency department (ED), provided an example of the sharing capability, called Care Everywhere. In the first week of Epic’s use at Montage Health, 17,998 records for 5,402 patients were shared with other healthcare providers and institutions, from lab results to MRIs. More than 60 percent of Californians currently have a record in Epic, which is also used by Stanford Health Care, all of the University of California medical centers, and many others.īecause Epic is so widely used, patient treatment information can be shared easily among Epic facilities, enabling providers to collaborate more effectively to improve patient safety and reduce duplication of services. The change took place in August and consolidated many of Montage Health’s electronic record systems into one.Įpic is used by the majority of top-ranked hospitals and medical schools in the nation, as well as leading healthcare organizations elsewhere in the world. Epic also provides patients with unprecedented access to their own health records through a system called M圜hart. Montage Health has implemented a new, sophisticated electronic health record (EHR) called Epic that enables healthcare providers to deliver safer, more seamless, comprehensive care for residents and visitors of Monterey County. Epic system designed to make care safer, more seamless