Published: Synapse 2016 Vol. 1
The entire Penn Medicine health system is in the process of consolidating its inpatient and outpatient information into a single electronic health record in conjunction with integrated billing and support systems. The result will be PennChart* - a single atient record to support coordinated patient care across the entire health system. PennChart will allow Chester County Hospital and all Penn Medicine entities to further provide coherent and comprehensive patient care while delivering a consistent and outstanding experience to patients.
Here's the strategy: Penn Medicine will fulfill its strategic plan imperatives of innovation, integration and impact, by ddeveloping PennChart, an electronic health record that spans the continuum of care, and creates value for patients and clinicians. With this strategy, Penn Medicine is poised to meet future patient and health system needs in an evolving health care landscape.
For several years, multidisciplinary teams from across the health system and locally at the hospital have been planning, collaborating and troubleshooting the technology process to create a standardization of practice. The go-live date for Chester County Hospital is Saturday, October 22. All Penn Medicine hospitals and facilities will be up and running with PennChart by April 2017.
As our team members put their intensive PennChart training into practice this October, it is possible that registration and other points of care could take longer than expected in the days and weeks to follow. We expect the transition to be seamless, but we will do our best to master the new system with as little impact on our patients and their loved ones as possible. As with any hospital endeavor, our goal is to provide the very best care for our patients. PennChart supports that goal.
We will provide additional information about this transition in the upcoming months.
*PennChart is Penn Medicine's enterprise name for the Epic platform.