UCSF Medical Center Invests $150M for New EHR System

UCSF Medical Center in San Francisco has invested $150 million to make the switch from paper records to electronic health records, according to a San Francisco Examiner news report.

The EHR system will be paid for through hospital reserves and will extend through the main hospital, the hospital's 150 clinics and the emergency room. An anticipated go-live date was not disclosed in the news report, but the project is expected to take three years.

Read the news report about UCSF Medical Center's EHR system.

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