Mercy Technology Services, the IT arm of the Catholic health system, is partnering with Tahoe Forest Health System to deploy an Epic electronic health record system at its locations in California and Nevada.

Mercy is the first U.S. provider accredited by Epic to extend services to other hospitals. MTS helps with EHR implementation and optimization and offers data analytics services.

"What I really like about Mercy is, even though it's a large organization, it shares our entrepreneurial spirit and it's agile – always pushing technology forward in its quest to best serve patients," said Jake Dorst, Tahoe's chief information and innovation officer, in a statement.  
 
"Moving from seven different EHRs to a single, unified patient record is a high priority for TFHS," he added. "This will help us build on our population health and community outreach initiatives, and coordinate better care between systems and specialties."
 
Mercy echoes Tahoe's stance on technology as a patient care game-changer, and sees extending services as a way to share best practices among providers while benefiting a broader patient community.
 
"With Mercy, Tahoe will have a mission-centered partner to grow with into the future with near-term strategic value from EHR services, and the option for mid- and longer-term solutions like big data analytics and virtual care to reach patients in hard-to-reach places," said Gil Hoffman, Mercy CIO.

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