Does the UW Family Medicine Department use an electronic medical record (EMR)?
Our current electronic medical record is Epic Care, which was implemented July, 2006. UW Medicine also uses an EMR which is more applicable to inpatient care, which residents will use on UWMC rotations. The department’s transition to an outpatient-based EMR for our Roosevelt clinic has been smooth and successful. Our residents will continue to be expected to acclimate to a variety of EMR’s during their training, given the variety of training sites that they rotate through. In the Harborview clinic, UW Medicine’s EMR is supported by paper charting, which houses items such as immunization and medication lists, and problem lists.
