Vanderbilt University Medical Center said Monday it was unable to access patient medical records because of a reported outage tied to Epic, the electronic health record system it relies on. The problem was first flagged through phone operations at the Nashville hospital, and clinicians suddenly found themselves unable to pull up patient charts during the disruption.
Why Epic matters at Vanderbilt
Vanderbilt has been running Epic across its main campus for years, and a recent VUMC news release highlighted that Vanderbilt Home Care joined the same platform in 2024, giving clinicians a single shared record across care settings. Vanderbilt Health News reported the rollout, which helps explain why an Epic-level problem would ripple through multiple…..