By Linda Satter
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS)’ Clinical Informatics team recently visited England to help the Royal Marsden Hospital in London transition to the Epic electronic medical record system.
Ashleigh Kathiresan, MS.Ed., director of Clinical Informatics at UAMS, said the specialty cancer treatment hospital for adult patients first reached out to Arkansas Children’s, which put them in touch with Joseph Sanford, M.D., associate vice chancellor and chief clinical informatics officer at UAMS as well as director for the Institute of Digital Health & Innovation, for on-site support during its implementation of Epic.
Kathiresan said the Clinical Informatics team attends annual conferences for Epic, the provider of the health care software that UAMS uses, and through networking at those conferences has come to be known as a knowledgeable source of information on implementing the system.
The second group of UAMS employees on the steps of the Royal Marsden Hospital.