Northwestern Medicine lays off 60 IT workers after EHR system launch

Danielle Brown | | Health Exec | EMR/EHR

About 60 information technology employees have been laid off by Northwestern Medicine after helping create a new electronic health records (EHR) platform, according to a report by the Chicago Tribune.

On Monday, Aug. 6, Northwestern Medicine informed about 60 members of its IT workforce that their positions were being eliminated as of Sept. 1, while other workers were moved laterally to new roles.

The hospital recently completed a massive technology project that “provides doctors and clinicians a unified electronic platform for patient health records across the entire Northwestern Medicine system,” according to the Chicago Tribune report. The project took three years to develop and went live in March.

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Danielle Brown

Danielle covers Clinical Innovation & Technology as a senior news writer for TriMed Media. Previously, she worked as a news reporter in northeast Missouri and earned a journalism degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She's also a huge fan of the Chicago Cubs, Bears and Bulls. 

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