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Mercy Health rises from the ashes, thanks in part to IT
February 22, 2012, 5:22 am by Healthcare IT News
On May 22nd at 5:41pm local time, an EF5 tornado – with 200 mph winds, six miles long, one mile wide – hit the town of Joplin, Missouri, with St. John’s Regional Medical Center in its path.
There were many heroes that day and in the aftermath. What mitigated the disaster’s impact and aided the recovery was the $800 million decade-long initiative of building an IT infrastructure and implementing an electronic health record (EHR), along with solid leadership, at Mercy Health, an integrated health system that included St. John’s.
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