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Partners President and CEO Gary Gottlieb, MD, kicked off Commitment Day last month for Partners eCare, the program name for the new enterprise-wide clinical and revenue system.
"Partners eCare, our new next-generation electronic health record, offers opportunities to improve the safety, quality and efficiency of care across every part of our system," Gottlieb told the 130 clinical and administrative leaders from across Partners who attended the event. "It is vital to meeting the demands of a challenging marketplace and advancing our mission. It will also be a key component in helping us weave together our broader system-wide strategy focusing on care redesign and patient affordability."
Following months of thorough review, Partners signed a contract with Epic in early July, chose a name for the new system - Partners eCare - and is now ready to begin design and configuration work. Epic is a worldwide leader in health information technology that specializes in working with academic medical centers and health systems.
"The goal will be to realize a fundamental principle: that each patient will have a single record - one patient, one record - accessible everywhere throughout Partners," said MGH President Peter Slavin, MD.
BW/F President Betsy Nabel, MD, also stressed Partners' firm commitment to helping researchers get access to needed data. "By adopting Epic, we are joining a new research community - including Stanford, Duke, Hopkins, Dartmouth, NYU, and others - that shares a powerful new common EHR, so we should be able to collaborate electronically with colleagues to conduct multi-institutional research work."
"The benefits of Partners eCare for our doctors, nurses and care teams are that they will have everything at their fingertips that they need to provide the very best care to our patients," said David Blumenthal, MD, Partners chief health information and innovation officer. "As our system looks for ways to improve the quality, safety and efficiency of our care, having better information will be foundational."
For answers to frequently-asked questions about the Partners eCare initiative, visit BWHPikeNotes.org.
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