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San Francisco DPH details EPIC EHR adoption and budget-backed expansion of addiction, syringe cleanup and survivor services
Summary
At the Health Commission meeting, the director said the EPIC electronic health record entered adoption Phase 2 with a planned August 3, 2019 go-live and outlined mayor Farrell's budget additions including expanded street-based buprenorphine treatment ($3 million annually), a ZSFG addiction medicine team, $750,000 for syringe cleanup staffing and sugary-drink-tax-funded community grants.
The Department of Public Health told commissioners that its EPIC electronic health record implementation advanced into adoption Phase 2 and is scheduled to go live on Aug. 3, 2019.
"We are very excited that ... the health record ... has transitioned into the adoption phase," the director said, adding the project timeline included a planned go-live date of "August third of 2019." The commission was shown a progress chart included in the director's written report.
The director framed the mayor's proposed budget as focused on homelessness, neighborhood cleanliness, public safety and long-term equity. She described a set of department priorities that the mayor's office added or funded: an expansion of street medicine to provide low-barrier,…
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