Michael. If you are coming from McKesson, you'll like Epic, especially if the rest of the system is on it. Not a huge learning curve for clinicians. They all sort of work the same to document. Having everything in one place will be the biggest benefit. Reporting and financials will be the biggest struggles.
A little off topic, but you'll appreciate this. Our workflow for 1st case same day surgery patients is to bring them straight up to pre-op and get them registered there. The alternative is a line of 60 patients and their families lined up down a hall at 0530 waiting to get registered. In Epic, unlike our current system, you can't document or see orders until the patient is registered. One of our "Epic1" people announced at a meeting last week that "nurses won't be able to do anything" until the patient is registered. I laughed and said, I'm a nurse. I am going to take care of my patient first and if and when I can get to charting, I will. They tried to convince me otherwise so I stopped them and said, If your spouse or child codes, do you want me to get a crash cart or a computer cart? That shut them up.
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