Our patients and communities will benefit from industry-leading technology providing incredible power to consumers to have more control over their health care and unprecedented access to their care teams.” “This major investment by the Board will make our health system even better. “This has been a long time coming, and many people have put in an incredible amount of work to plan, prepare and execute,” said Barbara Allen, Chair of the Board of Directors Information Technology Committee. “With Epic now live in most of our Ballad Health Medical Associates practices, we’re one – major – step closer to bringing our health system onto a single patient record platform. “This is a significant achievement – not just for our clinics and ancillary services, but for all of Ballad Health,” said Alan Levine, chairman and chief executive officer of Ballad Health. In the past six months, the health system has combined its two legacy networks, and launched a major project to replace 10,000 computers and convert the entire system to Windows 10.
EPIC HEALTH SYSTEM UPGRADE
The Epic ambulatory launch was also part of larger Ballad Health overhaul to upgrade its computing infrastructure to improve speed, reliability and security.
This system will provide unprecedented access for patients and their doctors, regardless of their affiliation with Ballad Health.ĭespite an aggressive timetable, made more challenging by the global pandemic limiting access to its integration partners to virtual support, the health system launched the sophisticated Epic electronic health records (EHR) system in physician practices that had been part of legacy Mountain States Health Alliance, joining legacy Wellmont Health System facilities, which have utilized Epic since 2014. On Monday, June 1, Ballad Health reached a new milestone in its journey to create a common and interoperable health technology platform for all the region’s hospitals and Ballad Health care sites. New platform will provide patients and their doctors with unprecedented new options for access, care and security of patient records
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