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34 CIO / HEALTH IT NYC Health + Hospitals debuts Epic EMR at 11 more facilities By Jessica Kim Cohen N YC Health + Hospitals launched an Epic EMR at one hospital and 10 community health centers and neigh- borhood clinics in Brooklyn, marking the next step in the New York City-based health system's systemwide IT platform rollout. NYC Health + Hospitals unveiled its plan to consolidate its disparate EMR systems onto one Epic platform in May 2017, with the ulti- mate goal to move the health system's 40,000 users across more than 70 patient care sites to a unified IT platform. e platform not only comprises Epic's EMR system, but also in- cludes the vendor's MyChart patient portal, de- cision support tools and revenue cycle features. e implementation at the 11 Brooklyn fa- cilities, including NYC Health + Hospitals/ Woodhull, marks the first implementation of the project — dubbed "H2O," short for "Health + Hospitals Online." e health sys- tem also upgraded existing Epic EMR sys- tems at three other hospitals and 15 health centers and neighborhood clinics in New York with the unified IT system's features. Together, the four hospitals and 25 commu- nity-based ambulatory care sites represent 14,000 active users who are now working with the new H2O system. "Successful implementations are possible only following an incredible amount of plan- ning and hard work," Kevin Lynch, senior vice president and CIO of NYC Health + Hospi- tals, said in a news release emailed to Becker's Hospital Review. "We have diligently created a good design-build-test-train-and-implemen- tation process that has resulted in this effort." e next Epic platform rollout will take place in spring 2019 at two hospitals and 19 community-based ambulatory care sites in New York. n Allscripts posts $36M net loss, 16% rise in revenue for Q3: 4 things to know By Jessica Kim Cohen A llscripts released its earnings results for the third quarter of 2018. Here are four notes about the Chicago-based EHR vendor's financial performance: 1. Allscripts posted $522 million in revenue for the third quarter, up 16 percent from $449 million during the same period last year. 2. Software delivery, support and maintenance made up most of Allscripts' third-quarter revenue at $330 million, up 14 percent from the third quarter of 2017. Allscripts attributed its remaining $192 million in revenue to client services. 3. Allscripts posted a $36 million net loss, down 24 percent from the $29 mil- lion net loss the company reported during the third quarter of 2017. 4. The company expects its revenue for full-year 2018 to be in the range of $2.15 billion to $2.25 billion. "Looking ahead, we believe we will continue to benefit from the investments we have made in building out a complete solution set for our clients in both the acute and ambulatory sectors, as well as our unique offering in the payer and life sciences business," said Allscripts CEO Paul Black. n Navicent Health CIO wins CHIME's transformational leadership award By Jessica Kim Cohen T he College of Healthcare Information Management Executives awarded Omer Awan, senior vice president and CIO of Macon, Ga.-based Navi- cent Health, its 2018 transformational leadership award. Each year, CHIME presents the transformational leadership award in con- junction with the American Hospital Association. The award honors a CEO or CIO whose organization "developed and deployed transformational IT that improved the delivery of care and streamlined administrative services," according to CHIME. Navicent Health's leadership credited Mr. Awan with embedding the hospital's IT staff within other departments, to make technology a foundational and sup- portive part of the organization's problem-solving process. One of the hospi- tal's IT successes was the rollout of a real-time care coordination platform that shortened scheduling times and decreased scheduling errors. "IT has broken out of the shell of technology … It is in business; it is in the clin- ical areas," Mr. Awan said. "All of my IT managers and directors rewrote their job descriptions. They are not just managers and directors, they are solution partners." Ninfa Saunders, president and CEO of Navicent Health, added, "Today, IT is considered a strategic asset and looked upon as an innovative and custom- er-oriented group that is consistently raising the bar for gold-standard cus- tomer service … Omer has fostered the spirit of innovation within the IT team and the organization as a whole." n