Seattle Youngsters’s Migrates Epic EHR Software to Virtustream Healthcare Cloud; Transfer Improves Operational Efficiencies and Helps Future Enlargement Plans for Unified EHR Platform

Seattle Children’s leverages Virtustream’s expertise to successfully migrate EHR applications to the cloud while working completely remotely due to pandemic-related restrictions

Virtustream, an enterprise-class cloud company and a Dell Technologies company, announced that Seattle Children’s has successfully merged two different Electronic Health Record (EHR) platforms into a single Epic system on the Virtustream Healthcare Cloud. With expert support from Virtustream’s xStreamCare Services ™ for EHR platform, the newly unified system provides thousands of clinicians and staff with secure and easy access to patient data through the Epic platform with greater efficiency and predictably lower costs.

Seattle Children’s specializes in meeting the unique physical, emotional, and developmental needs of children from infancy to young adulthood. It is one of the largest pediatric hospitals in the United States and offers services in 46 locations in Washington, Alaska, Montana, and Idaho.

“Now is the time for clinical systems to run securely and efficiently in the cloud,” said Dr. Zafar Chaudry, senior vice president and CIO of Seattle Children’s. “With the Virtustream Healthcare Cloud, Seattle Children’s can focus on our rapidly changing business needs and, most importantly, our patient care priorities. Thanks to Virtustream’s expertise and mission-critical cloud platform, we can be more agile and scale faster than traditionally Case Was Virtustream played a key role in our successful migration to Epic at a very hectic time for our healthcare system as we were dealing with home requirements and more pressing issues related to the pandemic, and I have come to our trusted partnership very much estimate. “

Completed late last year, the EHR consolidation and migration project included a Cerner EHR application running on the Cerner cloud and the Epic Revenue Cycle application running on-premises. The move provides all Seattle Children’s physical and remote locations with secure and efficient unified access to health records. Around 3,500 clinicians and employees are now using the Epic system simultaneously in the highly secure Virtustream Healthcare Cloud to view patient health information and refer patients. With that number expected to grow to 5,000 and more, Virtustream’s cloud solution was designed to be easily agile and scalable based on the healthcare system’s plans for future growth.

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Virtustream’s xStreamCare services ensure successful cloud migration of Cerner and Epic EHR applications to a single, unified Epic system

In response to the ongoing demands of the pandemic, Virtustream consultants and Seattle Children’s IT staff have completely virtually migrated healthcare system data from multiple remote locations. Merging two separate EHR systems can be a complex project, especially when they are run in two different operating environments. In this case, it was also imperative that staff continued to have uninterrupted access to critical patient and business records during the migration.

By unifying Seattle Children’s two distinct platforms in the Virtustream Healthcare Cloud, the healthcare system has achieved more predictable costs and reduced capital expenditures by using infrastructure as a service as needed. The hospital selected Virtustream, which works with several leading healthcare organizations, as its healthcare cloud is designed to help healthcare organizations ensure compliance with HIPAA / HITECH and SOC2 + HITRUST. In addition, Virtustream’s security management and monitoring services provide additional enterprise-class protection for Seattle Children’s data and applications. Finally, the Virtustream Healthcare Cloud offers availability service level agreements of up to 99.999% at the infrastructure level or less than 6 minutes of unplanned downtime per year.

With xStreamCare Services, Virtustream operates and manages the infrastructure for the hospital’s Epic EHR system as well as many other additional and supporting applications. This allows the hospital’s in-house IT staff to focus on other strategic projects, including patient care initiatives. For example, with Virtustream managing the cloud, the internal IT team can focus on more patient-centric priorities, including real-time analytics to manage the business, track infection rates, view patient queues, and provide secure access to the entire healthcare system.

“Our goal is always to be the most strategic IT partner for our customers,” says Dr. Tim Calahan, Director of Healthcare Product Strategy and Management for Virtustream. “With Seattle Children’s, Virtustream has provided a highly efficient, agile and scalable cloud solution supported by our enterprise-class security, compliance and expert-managed services that every healthcare organization should demand in these times.”

You can find more information about the Virtustream Healthcare Cloud here, about the xStreamCare services here and about the xStreamCare services for security and compliance here.

Via Virtustream

Virtustream LLC, a Dell Technologies company, is an enterprise-class cloud company trusted by companies around the world to migrate and run their mission-critical applications in the cloud. For companies, service providers, health organizations and government agencies, the xStreamCare Services ™ competence of Virtustream in combination with the Virtustream xStream® management platform and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) fulfills the security, compliance, performance, efficiency and Consumption-based billing requirements for complex production applications in the cloud – whether private, public or hybrid.

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