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Another NC Hospital Falls To Epic EHR Implementation Costs

Jennifer Bresnick | EHR Intelligence | November 14, 2013

Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center isn’t the only North Carolina hospital struggling with poor credit ratings and huge revenue gaps after attempting the installation of an Epic EHR system... Read More »

Audit Shows 2012-13 Fiscal Loss For Medical Center

Fran Daniel | Winston-Salem Journal | November 1, 2013

Audited results are out for Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center’s fiscal 2012-13, showing a much greater loss than the unaudited results released to bondholders Aug. 29. Read More »

EHRs And Health IT Projects: Are They Battering Hospitals' Financial Profiles?

Bob Herman | Becker's Hospital Review | January 6, 2014

This past November, Standard & Poor's Ratings Services downgraded the credit rating of Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, N.C., from "AA-" to "A+". Read More »

Epic EHR Adoption Debated In North Carolina’s Durham County

Kyle Murphy | EHR Intelligence | April 10, 2014

The Durham County Board of Commissioners has an Epic decision to make in the weeks ahead after representatives from the Lincoln Community Health Center (LCHC) and Duke University Health System (DUHS) proposed implementing a unified EHR system.  

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Epic EHR Still Costing Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center

Kyle Murphy | EHR Intelligence | November 1, 2013

It may be about time that Epic EHRs come with a warning label that has nothing to do with systems themselves but everything to do with the costs incurred by healthcare organizations adopting solutions from Epic Systems and how they will affect their bottom lines during the earliest phases of implementation. Read More »

Expensive EHR Implementations Threaten Hospital Credit Ratings

Julie Bird | FierceHealthFinance | January 7, 2014

Huge capital outlays for  electronic health record (EHR) implementations are threatening the credit ratings of some large medical systems by tying up large amounts of cash and temporarily reducing profits, Becker's Hospital Review reported. Read More »

Wake Forest Climbs Out Of Epic Hole After EHR Adoption

Jennifer Bresnick | EHR Intelligence | March 4, 2014

Things are looking up for Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, North Carolina after a difficult year in 2013.  Slammed by unexpected costs and huge losses stemming from the implementation of an Epic EHR system, the hospital has struggled to maintain its financial health while attracting enough patients to keep it in the black. [...] Read More »