Liftoff for an EHR; Missouri SSM hospital is first in systemwide rollout.(Information Edge)

Modern Healthcare, April, 2008 by Conn, Joseph

Byline: Joseph Conn

What may have been two milestones in the history of clinical computing were passed late last month at SSM St. Joseph Hospital West in Lake St. Louis, Mo.

The 129-bed hospital, part of St. Louis-based SSM Health Care, launched its enterprise electronic health-record system from Epic Systems Corp., Verona, Wis., at midnight on March 30.

Being the first "go-live'' of a $330 million, corporatewide EHR rollout called Project Beacon made it a historic weekend for SSM, which operates 13 general acute-care hospitals and two specialty hospitals in Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma and Wisconsin. SSM expects to install EHR systems at all of its hospitals by 2011.

In addition, Pat Komoroski, president of St. Joseph Hospital West,...

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