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wbjournal.com | October 15, 2018 | Worcester Business Journal 15 I N F O R M A T I O N T E C H N O L O G Y F O C U S Source: 2015 National Electronic Health Records Survey, conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics Electronic medical records rollout Knowledge + Experience + Trusted Advice. It all adds up. Large enough to serve the needs of most businesses and individuals; small enough to offer the personal attention you expect and deserve. Greenberg, Rosenblatt, Kull & Bitsoli, PC Certified Public Accountants 306 Main Street, Suite 400 • Worcester, MA 01608 508.791.0901 • www.grkb.com four years ago and since then, it has implemented more safeguards. e Epic system comes with its own safeguards. Information is kept not in Worcester but in Wisconsin at Epic's offices. A redundant records-keeping system is in Minnesota, Sugrue said. Work is never done For UMass, the transition has gone well enough the network received stage-7 certification by the industry group HIMSS Analytics. Only 2 percent of hospitals receive such a designation for its medical records system capabil- ities for both the acute and outpatient settings, UMass said. But the job isn't done. Technology upgrades weren't finished last October when Epic went online. Staff has spent much of the time since then responding to any issues and gauging its ease-of-use with providers. An employee survey of inpatient physicians on the new records system found a 60-percent satisfaction rate, said Tarnowski, who was hired as UMass' first chief information officer as part of the Epic rollout. Because upgrading to Epic took so long, UMass isn't running on the latest operating system. e network's system is the 2015 version. By Nov. 3, UMass is slated to upgrade to Epic's 2018 version, bringing another effort to the staff just as upgrading to the initial system was becoming habit. "It doesn't end, and the investment continues," Sugrue said. 94.9% 86.9% Percent who used electronic records in 2015 W

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