A rural Wisconsin hospital is implementing Epic as more small healthcare facilities move to the EHR vendor.
Sturgeon Bay, Wis.-based Door County Medical Center is making its largest-ever technology investment as it awaits funding from the $50 billion federal Rural Health Transformation Program, Door County Daily News reported Nov. 11.
The 25-bed critical access hospital plans to go live with Epic in February through a partnership with Springfield, Ill.-based Hospital Sisters Health System, migrating from Meditech.
“DCMC remains one of the last hospitals in northeast Wisconsin not utilizing Epic, which complicates interhospital data exchange,” hospital Chief Administrative Officer Erick Schrier said in an August news release. “Switching to Epic will provide our staff with innovative features, increased efficiency, and more precise data — benefits that lead to improved patient care.”
Epic gained the most acute care hospitals with 25 or fewer beds of any EHR vendor in 2024, though Oracle Health still leads that market, according to KLAS Research. Epic’s wins have been mostly due to its Community Connect program, where larger health systems link the EHR to smaller peers.
