Virginia Hospital Center issued the following announcement on Oct. 22
Virginia Hospital Center (VHC), a community-based hospital providing medical services to the Washington, DC metropolitan area for 75 years, brought Epic, a leading electronic health record (EHR) system, to our partners at the Arlington Free Clinic (AFC) at no cost. Epic serves as a digital database for patient charts, giving real-time information on medical history, diagnoses, allergies, medications, and lab results.
“Virginia Hospital Center has worked closely with the Arlington Free Clinic throughout the Clinic’s 27 years of operation, ensuring that all of our neighbors have access to the care they need for optimal health and well-being,” said James B. Cole, President & CEO. “It is our pleasure to add our partners at AFC to our Epic community, which will lead to improved health care and better health outcomes for the patients we collectively serve.”
Every year, the Arlington Free Clinic delivers patient-centered healthcare to approximately 1,600 of our community’s most vulnerable residents. Having used the same EHR for ten years, AFC’s system no longer provided the necessary support for delivering care. Through this major shift, VHC prepared and mapped data and conducted training for system users.
“I’d like to extend an enormous thank you to VHC for offering to bring us onto its Epic account at no cost,” said Nancy White, President of AFC. “This transition poses unique obstacles, and VHC’s contributions have been essential in allowing us to overcome those obstacles to successfully convert to Epic without missing a beat in delivering quality care to our patients.”
VHC provided training and technical support to AFC throughout the conversion. The transition to Epic created a more streamlined system between the two partnering centers. AFC worked closely with VHC in developing creative strategies and on training to assist volunteer physicians in using the new system.
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