Epic Systems Corporation of Madison Wisconsin has won a $40 million contract to consolidate data from multiple software programs across the West Virginia University (WVU) Hospitals and University Health Associates systems.
The new IT system will streamline record keeping and record sharing at three sites: Physicians Office Center, WVU Cheat Lake Physicians office and the WVU Harpers Ferry Family Medicine Center. Several systems at Ruby Memorial Hospital, WVU Children's Hospital and Chestnut Ridge Hospital will also be consolidated.
Going forward, once patients provide a medical history, insurance and other information at one WVU office, it will be available to all other offices. Lab results, X-rays and other records will be instantly available.
WVU providers logged more than 500,000 patient visits last year, each of which can generate dozens of documents in a single day.
