The Yale New Haven Health System is taking part in a five-year $250 million electronic health system project that will link hospitals, community physicians, patients and caregivers throughout the region.
The streamlined electronic medical record will integrate patient information across YNHHS, which includes Greenwich Hospital, Bridgeport Hospital, Yale-New Haven Hospital, the Yale Medical Group, the Northeast Medical Group and community physicians throughout the state.
All system partners will be fully on board by 2014.
 the software, which is designed by Epic systems, will create a single electronic medical record that follows individual patients everywhere – from their community doctor’s office to the hospital’s emergency department to the outpatient laboratory facility and back home to the patient’s computer.
Hospital officials say the new system with help better coordinate patient care and lower healthcare costs by creating a centralized chart with all previous procedures and test results, which will eliminate the need to duplicate expensive tests and procedures.
