Electronic Medical Record

NorthShore University HealthSystem (NorthShore) has been named one of the nation's 100 Most Wired and 25 Most Wireless, according to the results of the 2006 Most Wired Survey and Benchmarking Study, released in the July 2006 issue of Hospitals & Health Networks, the journal of the American Hospital Association.  NorthShore is one of the first healthcare systems in the nation to implement a completely electronic medical information system (Epic) that is built around the patient.  The significance of this state-of-the-art system - now in use by 100 percent of all physicians, nurses and other medical professionals at NorthShore - is that all patient-related documentation and orders are now paperless.  Practitioners work from a single, integrated source of clinical information that is secure, current, legible, organized and instantly accessible in all NorthShore locations.