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Congrats to Jillian F. Rork, MD, a dermatologist from Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center and Clinics and the first researcher to receive funding from The National Institutes of Health (NIH) for a study using Cosmos data. Jillian is interested in learning how skin conditions affect people with Down syndrome. Using Cosmos, her team found that people with Down syndrome have a higher prevalence of alopecia areata and thyroid disease than the general population, and that the risk of thyroid disease is even greater in people with Down syndrome who have alopecia areata. Read Jillian’s op-ed about her team’s Cosmos experience: https://lnkd.in/eEKjiBZB And check out their study in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology: https://lnkd.in/e7vHinMc

Clinicians spend their days on their feet and on the move. When given the choice, many prefer to use Epic on their phones rather than at stationary workstations. We sat down with Virtua Health, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, and Inova Health to learn how they’ve benefitted from a mobile mindset. A couple of highlights: a 91% reduction in the average time to finish documentation for a patient assessment and—believe it or not—the joy of hosting on-site “dog parks” to promote nurse wellbeing and mobile device adoption. Thanks for the nod to Rover, our mobile app ?? Read more: https://lnkd.in/enfUZmh8

“I love data — understanding it and using it.” Us too, doc. Us too. Our friends at Hamilton Health Sciences in Ontario, Canada recently created a new role focused on how Epic can advance their research. “Using Epic data for research is a logical next step to supporting research excellence in Hamilton,” said Darryl Leong, MD, cardiologist and newly minted associate chief medical information officer for research at HHS. “There has always been this awareness within HHS that the Epic system has enormous research potential, and that’s being crystalized in this new role.” HHS joined the Epic community in 2022, when they replaced dozens of electronic and paper systems and unified patient health information in one comprehensive system. Read more about their vision here: https://lnkd.in/gmwUrWEQ

Happy National Read a Book Day! We love books around here—so much so that we have our own library, called Alexandria. (Oh, and we themed an entire conference around children’s books. ??) Our staff can peruse Alexandria’s shelves and check out books on a variety of topics to help with career growth—time management, communication skills, leadership, medical topics, coding, writing…there are even cookbooks for our culinary team. What are your favorite books to read?

More and more organizations are coming together to support each other’s Epic implementations, sometimes traveling around the world to learn and lend a hand. Folks from Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust and Advocate Health (pictured below at the Apollo go-live in London), Woman's Hospital, and Memorial Hermann Health System recently spoke to us about how they collaborated with others to help make their go-lives a success. Read more (starting on page 8): https://lnkd.in/g_VCxBXg

An estimated 6.2 million Americans live with Alzheimer’s?and other dementias in the US today. Among people 65 and older, one in every nine have Alzheimer’s. To help clinicians care for these patients across care settings, our friends at UCLA Health created a dementia program managed in Epic. Families are assigned a designated point person who’s trained in dementia care, and information about patients’ dementia progression, care needs, and future plans is made available to clinicians in the program and to primary care doctors—helping ensure that care is cohesive. Patients in the program have seen a 12% reduction in hospitalization, a 20% reduction in ED visits, and a 21% reduction in ICU stays. Read more: https://lnkd.in/g5zTkDef #healthcare #healthIT #dementia

The sun rose on a quiet campus this week. Far fewer smiling faces, horses and carriages, and storybook characters. Congrats to every customer and Epic employee who helped make UGM 2024 such a treat. Until next year, Your friends at Epic #healthcare #healthIT #UGM24

Cosmos and MyChart and?AI, oh my! UGM 2024 has been a tale for the ages, and it isn’t done yet. Today, we cap the week with Global Day. ? At Exec Address and Cool Stuff Ahead, we discussed our plans for generative AI, ambient listening in the exam room, Cosmos insights at the point of care (Best Care Choices for My Patient, Look-Alikes, and Diagnosis Advisor), MyChart, enhancing collaboration between payers and providers, surgical supply efficiency, and a whole lot more.? ? “We've woven Cosmos, MyChart, and the Health Grid into all of our software, and as they continue to grow in scale, so does the potential for meaningful impact, and they’re getting turbocharged with AI,” said Sumit Rana, who leads R&D here at Epic. More from Fierce: https://lnkd.in/eGYBB34j #healthcare #healthIT #UGM24

Starting today, the newest chapter of UGM begins. It’s a time for Epic customers, friends, and staff to share their stories—and write some new ones together. ? Happy UGM ?? #UGM24

Notch another win against note bloat. To reduce note length and improve note quality in inpatient contexts, Rady Children's Hospital-San Diego updated note templates in Epic to include “disappearing help text”—in-line suggestions and reminders that help clinicians know what’s needed (and what’s not) in their documentation. Their efforts have reduced inpatient progress note length by nearly 19% and median admission note length by more than 6—saving clinicians time, and making it easier to find the information that matters most. The notes were also higher quality: the number of coding queries—when a coder has to ask the clinician for more details about a patient’s visit or admission to bill appropriately—decreased by 14%. Congrats, folks! Read more: https://lnkd.in/gP4EfHPY #healthcare #healthIT #notebloat