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Reason #1487 to love Epic’s Users Group Meeting: our bone-deep commitment to themes. This photo is from UGM 2022, “Midnight at the Museum.” Truly a work of art. UGM 2024’s theme? Storytime. Look out for more from us on the UGM front 😉 #healthcare #healthIT #UGM

Greetings from the UK! These smiles come to you from the South West Ambulatory Orthopaedic Centre (SWAOC), one of the UK’s first orthopaedic “surgical hubs” focused solely on day and short-stay surgery. To reduce wait times for elective surgery, the NHS promoted the creation of surgical hubs that perform only elective procedures. These hubs aim to reduce length of stay and increase the number of patients who go home on the same day as their operation. SWAOC collaborates with Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust to use Epic. Nearly every patient who receives a hip or knee replacement at SWAOC goes home by the next day, and the majority go home the same day. Congrats, folks! Read more: https://lnkd.in/gpmw8qbZ #healthcare #healthIT #surgery

Everyone loves campus when spring’s in bloom – including this duo, who we found relaxing on a patio. Furry friends: if you want a tour, just check in at reception between 2:30 and 5pm 😊 #healthcare #healthIT #workplace

Our new, open-source AI Trust and Assurance Suite gives organizations the ability to deploy AI with confidence, monitor it continuously, and help ensure that it works for all patients. The tool is available for free on GitHub so that organizations can use the platform to monitor all of their AI tools—including custom models and those developed by other vendors. Corey Miller, an R&D leader at Epic, caught up with Healthcare IT News to provide a deeper dive on the Trust and Assurance Suite. Mark Sendak (population health and data science lead at Duke Institute for Health Innovation) and Brian Patterson (UW Health’s medical informatics director for predictive analytics and AI) join to share how their institutions have worked with us to test the suite and develop a standardized language for AI validation. Read more: https://lnkd.in/gvf3raVb #healthcare #healthIT #AI

Last week, our very own Phil Lindemann had the opportunity to speak on a new project that will support personalized medicine throughout the Epic community: Best Care Choices for My Patient. An example from Phil: “Let’s look at patients just like you, and what happened to them over the last three years, five years, what resulted in the lowest incidence of you having a stroke, or a heart attack, and maybe we’ll pick that medication instead. That’s the type of stuff that’s now possible, where essentially every physician can learn from the decisions of every physician before them.” Best Care Choices for My Patient shows providers how patients like theirs have responded to different treatment options that they're considering. Based on insights from Cosmos, providers can see care choices made by more than 300,000 of their colleagues and the observed outcomes for more than 200 million deidentified patients. Stay tuned on more info on Best Care Choices for My Patient this summer! Read more: https://lnkd.in/dgBbMrWP #healthcare #healthIT #precisionmedicine

Our hometown is great for many reasons. Count ultimate frisbee among them. Ultimate has thrived in Madison since the early 90’s, and—as we now know—we’ve played a small role in its growth 😊 “Evidently, Epic brings liberal arts-type people who also play frisbee,” said Avery Johnson, an assistant coach of the men’s team at UW-Madison. “They bring a lot of other knowledge that maybe wasn’t here before, a lot of different ways of looking at systems and how you play. I think it really helps us grow.” PS – rumor has it that STEM students like frisbee too 😉 Read more: https://lnkd.in/gHK_d-Fw

In hospitals around the world, clinicians are caring for as many patients as possible while facing ongoing staffing challenges. Here are a few ways that Epic can help you care for more patients in need with a keen eye on nurses’ workloads. More from Cool Stuff Now: https://lnkd.in/g_9NXEn3 #healthcare #healthIT #nursing

We’ve got another world-first to share for generative AI.   Last week, our friends at Elisabeth-TweeSteden Ziekenhuis (ETZ) and UMCG in the Netherlands became the first clinicians to use generative AI-powered patient summaries in Epic.                 The goal: speed up outpatient visit prep by distilling information from the chart, with references to notes where specific details were documented. If clinicians have an idea of what they’re looking for, they can summarize specific notes or specific topics.   Speaking of the Netherlands: Stephanie Klein Nagelvoort Schuit (Professor of Future Healthcare, Acute Medicine Internist, and Vice Chair of the Board at UMCG) and Seth Hain spent the early half of this week presenting at ICT&health World Conference in Maastricht. They discussed all things AI—great timing. To everyone at ETZ and UMCG – congrats on leading the way! #healthcare #healthIT #AI

Our friends at Rochester Regional Health provide a great example of how nursing informatics teams can help their colleagues embrace new technology. RRH's nurse informaticists recently helped implement Rover, Epic's mobile app for nurses, so that nurses can complete their work on the go, without mobile workstations or trips to a centrally located computer. “Previously, when they would have to go back to a computer to document everything they just did, they would break out their piece of paper that they wrote all their stuff on and it could take about an hour,” said Joe Collins, RN, MBA, nurse informaticist at RRH. “With Rover, we have seen a decrease all the way down to five to six minutes.” Congrats, folks! Read more: https://lnkd.in/gbXFvw9z

For two weeks, the little town of Verona, Wisconsin had thousands more Xperts running around than usual. Congratulations to everyone who helped make this year’s XGM great! We found your thoughtful presentations and enthusiasm about healthcare electrifying. We’re still wired.