The Health Services Department utilizes Epic Systems Corporation software system for managing patients Electronic Health Records (EHR) pursuant to a license and support agreement, dated April 26,2011, between Epic and the County. This quote is to extend maintenance and support of the EHR system for a 3-year term. Health Services Department will be adding additional modules on smaller projects for upcoming fiscal years. Epic provides software for inpatient and ambulatory patient care, laboratory, pharmacy, order management, billing, advice nurse, managed care, as well as others in one integrated system. With this single integrated Epic solution, managing the patient’s care, whether at the hospital, the doctor’s office, or through the Health Plan, will allow all physicians, nurses, clinicians, and patient care mangers to have the same longitudinal view of the patient. Using Epic will allow the easy sharing of clinical information with our major patient referral facilities (Kaiser, Sutter, UCSF, UCD, and Stanford).
If the maintenance contract of the Epic System if not approved, it will directly affect patient care at CCRMC.