New York City-based Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center has unified its Epic EHR so its patients, providers, researchers and labs are all on the same system.
Here are six things to know from an Aug. 6 Epic news release:
1. As of February, over 18,000 Memorial Sloan Kettering staff across hospitals and outpatient facilities now have access to the unified Epic EHR.
2. Epic called the project “one of the most ambitious health IT transformations ever undertaken in oncology.”
3. Critical lab results are now automatically pushed to providers’ mobile devices, with the clinicians acknowledging them within three minutes on average, compared to 45 minutes when results are communicated by phone.
4. Memorial Sloan Kettering helped enroll over 100,000 patients for MyChart ahead of the launch.
5. As part of the transformation, Memorial Sloan Kettering integrated eConsent for research studies into Epic, with 80% of study participants now consenting electronically. The organization plans to offer eConsent in over 20 languages to increase that percentage.
6. The cancer center collaborated with Epic to add nearly 50 of its oncology-specific nurse triage protocols to the standard version of the EHR, making them available to other health systems using the vendor.
