HealthEast Care System to Spend $135M on Integrated EHR

HealthEast Care System in St. Paul, Minn., will spend $135 million to build an electronic medical record system, according to Healthcare IT News.

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The health system currently uses a disjointed system, which includes seven vendor platforms, for its four hospitals, according to the report.

The new monetary investment will use Epic Systems to integrate all seven systems together. It is slated to go live in May of 2014.

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