Epic has announced the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany’s largest university hospital, has selected its EPR, following a two year procurement process.
The EPR is to replace a system used at the Charité for the past 20 years, that will no longer be updated and maintained in the future. A financial plan of around 200 million euros is in development to support the programme, covering software licenses, IT infrastructure and implementation support.
“It will take a while before the hospital information system is implemented. Our goal is that the system is set up throughout the Charité by the end of 2029. We will benefit from Epic’s broad experience and build a system tailored to the Charité in the next few years,” commented Prof. Martin E. District, board of health care.
The announcement notes that the hospital board is in close talks with the Berlin Senate about financing. “With the new hospital information system, we will succeed in creating substantial financial added value. At the same time, despite demographic change and continuing challenging hospital financing throughout Germany, the new hospital information system enables us to provide the best patient care on an economically healthy basis,” explained Astrid Lurati, managing director of finance and infrastructure. The decision to award Epic Systems is still subject to the supervisory board.
Wider trend: EPR
For a recent HTN Now panel discussion on EPR best practices, we welcomed experts from across health and care, including Sally Mole, digital programme manager at The Dudley Group NHS FT, Fhezan Ashraf, clinical configuration manager at The Dudley Group NHS FT, Stacey Spence, EPR programme manager at Medway NHS FT and Hayley Grafton, CNIO at University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust. The discussion began with wider introductions, where each of our experts gave an overview of their own go-live projects before moving onto post go-live best practices, exploring key learnings and challenges when it comes to engaging the workforce and measuring adoption.
A recent HTN Now panel discussion explored EPR customisations for the frontline and how digital transformation can support the direction set in the 10 Year Health Plan. We discussed optimisation, challenges and key learnings from success stories shared by our experts. Panellists included Doctor Stephen Jones, principal clinical psychologist at Sheffield Children’s Hospital; David Wong, associate professor of health data science and health informatics at Leeds University; Mark Simpson, digital innovation leader at Leeds Community Healthcare; and Michael Odling-Smee, CEO at Aire Innovate.
The board of York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has shared an update on progress around EPR implementation, next steps, and future focuses for digital. Overall progress is reported as “in line with plan”, with go-live of the first tranche due to begin on 27 February 2026, including observations, clinical documentation for inpatients, urgent & emergency care, electronic prescribing and medicine administration, and read-only diagnostic results. The second tranche, which contains full order comms, is set to go live on 30 June, 2026, with the third to follow on 30 October.
