Albany Med Health System has shared the latest on progress with its electronic medical record journey with Epic, welcoming new features and preparing to expand the platform across more hospitals in the network by this autumn.
Following Albany Medical Center’s go live of the Epic solution in March this year, the latest updates confirms plans for three more hospitals to go live by autumn 2024, with Albany Med hoping that bringing in a single EMR platform across all of its hospitals will help to ensure that patient information is “readily available at all locations”.
The next few months will reportedly see employees across Saratoga Hospital, Columbia Memorial Health, and Glens Falls Hospital undertaking training in preparation for their own Epic launches, with super users in place to help offer support to their colleagues on the solution’s use.
Albany Med Health System highlights that a recently added feature for its EMR is the ability for pictures to be securely placed into a patient’s chart, enabling physicians to check on progress and pick up on any changes in condition.
For patients, the introduction of a new patient portal, MyChart, means that the EMR also offers the ability to access health information, view their doctor’s notes, request prescription refills, and manage appointments.
Rishi Malik, ED physician at Albany Medical Center, said that the solutions helps teams to “work more efficiently”, adding: “It used to be very difficult to document on shift as you went. Now, when a patient leaves the Emergency Department, they don’t have to describe complicated medical visits to the next provider because the information is often right there in their chart.”
Malik also commented on some of Epic’s features which have allowed clinicians to “more quickly gather information from a patient’s chart and view lab and imaging results”, including “sameday documentation”, which makes it easier for physicians to complete documentation when seeing a patient, so information is readily available for follow-up visits.
In other news from the US, San Francisco-based Better Health has announced the securing of $14 million in funding for its solution providing support for those with chronic illness.
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