Since no single system in the market today can provide the functionality we desire across the complex environment of the UPMC Health System, we are building our own electronic health record from component parts in steps. The EPIC and Cerner project teams strive to deploy a fully integrated desktop solution. Cerner and EPIC implementation team staff, along with Center for Biomedical personnel, are involved with this initiative that is being led by Mike Burke of the Information Services Division and Kim Batch of the Center for Biomedical Informatics. This system will be EPIC in the ambulatory environment and Cerner in the inpatient environment. This local view will be dependent on the clinical setting in which the clinician resides, and will likely support advanced functionality such as encounter specific results review, order management, documentation and synchronous decision support.
Immediate efforts are underway to discuss standardizing the vocabulary of patient problem lists.
Leadership from both the EPIC and Cerner projects are committed to working with their respective supplier partners to strive toward implementing these standards within the clinical settings at UPMC Health System.