
Expanding our functionality has brought greater efficiencies and tools for clinicians and patients. We’ve also accomplished several banner achievements since completing all systemwide Epic Go-Lives. (Read More)
Epic. What we’ve accomplished. What’s coming.
More than a year after our final Epic launch, we continue optimizing our systems to support exceptional patient care.

It’s where 1960s-era television writers predicted advanced technologies, like full-body monitoring, one-tap communications and flip-phones. (Read More)
SickBay. It’s not just for Trekkies anymore.
Star Trek’s Dr. McCoy treated anyone during the five-year trans-galaxy voyage with a crew mission-bound to boldly go where no one had gone before.

Does the next iteration in improving medicine come to mind? If so, that’s exactly what it is. Artificial intelligence is ushering in a new era of better patient care. (Read More)
Artificial intelligence. It’s here.
Artificial intelligence. What comes to mind when you hear that? Arnold in “The Terminator.” That sweet little boy humanoid in Steven Spielberg’s “AI.”

The National Institute on Drug Abuse has put the data pieces together, and the result is ghastly. This didn’t happen overnight. It started a couple decades ago, with providers prescribing opioids for pain, temporary and chronic. (Read More)
Opioid prescription protocols. Now in Epic.
The numbers are staggering. Over 115 − people who die every day from opioid overdose. About 80 percent – heroin users who began with prescribed opioids.

It’s easy. Just download the Houston Methodist Virtual Care app on your smartphone. (Read More)
See the doctor without leaving your desk.
Sore throat, sinuses acting up and you feel vaguely achy. You can see the doctor from your desk at work or from your sofa at home if you’ve called in sick.

If you’re a 13-year-old mowing the neighbors’ yards. If you own a home goods franchise. If you’re Houston Methodist. (Read More)
Money matters. An Epic record for billing efficiency.
No matter what type of business you run, getting cash in hand is where the rubber meets the road.