UMass Memorial Health

This funding would be used by Umass Memorial Health (UMMH) Harrington to support UMMH’s commitment to modernize Harrington’s electronic health records (EHR) system to better serve its patients. Pursuant to the merger agreement between UMMH and Harrington, UMMH has committed close to $100 million in total capital investment in Harrington, including an estimated $45 million to upgrade its outdated EHR system to the state-of-the-art Epic EHR system.UMMH has employed Epic to improve patient communi

This funding would be used by Umass Memorial Health (UMMH) Harrington to support UMMH’s commitment to modernize Harrington’s electronic health records (EHR) system to better serve its patients. Pursuant to the merger agreement between UMMH and Harrington, UMMH has committed close to $100 million in total capital investment in Harrington, including an estimated $45 million to upgrade its outdated EHR system to the state-of-the-art Epic EHR system.UMMH has employed Epic to improve patient communi

This funding would be used by UMass Memorial Health (UMMH) for their “Hospital at Home” program, which will enable many low acuity patients to choose to be treated at home, thereby freeing bed capacity for high acuity, emergent cases and is consistent with CMS’s Hospital Without Walls program. UMMH is the primary provider of highly specialized clinical services in Central New England but is challenged by limited bed capacity. This causes extended delays in transfer of high acuity patients from o