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People experiencing homelessness face additional challenges such as financial limitations, lack of transportation to facilities, and stigma that make accessing the healthcare they desperately need extremely difficult. Street medicine programs, like Healthcare in Action (HIA) in California (a member organization of SCAN Group), provide a method to overcome those challenges and get people access to healthcare.     Through their Community Connect partnership with Cedars-Sinai, HIA staff get access to patients’ comprehensive health records, allowing physicians to make informed decisions. Viewing and documenting patient information on-the-go through mobile devices helps improve continuity of care as patients see different teams. And with population-level data and analytic tools, HIA can identify patients who should be prioritized to drive better outcomes across an entire community. https://lnkd.in/dwsDbFuF

When entering the doctor’s office, patients should be focused on their health—not on paperwork and insurance information. Coverage Finder and Digital Insurance Card Exchange speed up registration, reduce errors, and minimize headaches so that patients can concentrate on what really matters. “From reducing time at the front desk by up to 50%, to ensuring their coverage is accurate and up-to-date, this makes insurance information one less thing patients need to worry about,” said Alan Hutchison, Vice President at Epic. Simplifying the patient experience and reducing administrative burden were at the heart of development efforts for these Payer Platform features, which Humana’s Chris Walker and Epic’s Ryan Bohochik presented at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Connectathon last week. Humana has played a key role in designing and pioneering these features, helping millions check in faster and more confidently. https://lnkd.in/e8gscaYB

"You predict the future for two reasons. One is to prepare for it. And two is to change it.” https://lnkd.in/gC4Q5cYQ

Clinicians in the hospital spend a lot of time searching through notes, results, and messages to get the full story of a patient’s stay. Integrated AI can help.     To help care teams quickly orient themselves to the most important details of a patient’s admission, Inpatient Insights AI scans a patient’s chart and generates concise, timestamped summaries and discrete insights, such as why a medication was changed.     After rolling out the feature at Riverside Health, users have reported significant decreases in time spent in various activities throughout the patient's chart, including a 22.5% decrease in time spent in the Notes activity, a 32.5% decrease in time spent in Secure Chat, and a 21.6% decrease in time spent in Results Review, adding up to meaningful time saved across teams. 

Front desk staff often have to collect patients’ coverage info and enter it manually. Coverage Finder automatically pulls the required information from Epic Payer Platform to help create the coverage—speeding up registration and reducing errors. Participating payers: UnitedHealthcare, Elevance Health, Humana, Aetna, a CVS Health Company, Blue Shield of California, Centene Corporation, Highmark Health, Molina Healthcare, Independence Blue Cross, Health Alliance, Louisiana Blue, Health First, and Medica.

Following Singapore’s migration to Epic, the National University of Singapore has conducted advanced one-day personalization courses to see if training would result in quantitative improvements. The researchers found that trained clinicians did indeed reduce the time spent across various functionalities, increased their use of SmartTools, and increased their use of Quick Filters. Consider us locked in for “How to make the most out of Epic” next semester! https://lnkd.in/gaJaZdRn 

Our local construction partners, The Morse Group, JP Cullen, and LYCON INC., based in Rock County, WI, have been part of our campus story since the very beginning. To mark the 20th anniversary of operations at 1979 Milky Way, we all got together over coffee and pastries to share stories, laughter, and gratitude. And of course, the celebration wouldn’t have been complete without cow-themed hard hats.    We’re looking forward to continuing this partnership to support Wisconsin workers and promote local economic growth. Here’s to the next 20 years and beyond.    To the craftsmen and women of Rock County, thank you for helping build Epic—literally.

Invited some future Epic employees for office trick-or-treating. Happy Halloween! 🎃

"At Harmony, we're removing the silos between oral and overall health to create a smarter, more equitable path to whole-person care," said Dr. Greg Kaplan, Clinical Director of Harmony. Partnered with Delta Dental Ins., Harmony Whole Person Oral Healthcare is pioneering new innovations and strengthening local health resources. Through this dental-medical integration (DMI), dental care acts as an entry point to screen for systemic health conditions and risk factors so that patients can receive timely referrals, treatment plans, and early intervention. Congrats, y’all!  https://lnkd.in/giYSRtDG

Oral health can often be a reflection of a person’s overall health. Research shows that poor oral hygiene can lead to an increased risk of cardiovascular disease, stroke, diabetes, dementia, high-risk pregnancy, and many other conditions.  Instead of keeping dental and medical care separate, PDS Health combined the two within a single location to create PDS Health Medical. With this more integrated model of care, clinicians can access complete patient records, see the whole picture, and effectively collaborate with each other all in the same day. The shared systems, complementary workflows, and streamlined patient experience are already changing how they approach preventative care and manage chronic diseases.  https://lnkd.in/gySGHYBY