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Morning Headlines 12/21/15
Vendor for VUMC clinical systems upgrade named
Vanderbilt University Medical Center will implement Epic, replacing its existing McKesson Horizon system, with a projected go-live of November 2017.
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Re: Vendor for VUMC clinical systems upgrade named. Vanderbilt uses McKesson HealthQuest, not McKesson Horizon. HealthQuest is McKesson’s legacy mainframe HIS application. McKesson will end of support for HealthQuest as of March 2018.