Epic & High Reliability Organization (HRO)

Access. Accountability. Dramatically reducing errors connected to a lack of standardization and striving toward a future of zero patient harm. Breaking down the walls that result in patient harm – that’s excellence in patient safety – that’s RWJBH. That’s Epic Together.

We selected Epic’s foundation system to support our move toward standardization because it will best support our high reliability journey, and further unite every aspect of our health system. With one foundation system we will consolidate all of our disparate registration, billing and scheduling systems, promoting transparency and communication and helping us move toward our goal of zero events of preventable harm to our patients and employees.

Testimonial - Emily Halu

“When we committed as an organization to adopt the Safety Together values in our individual, team and leadership expectations and habits, we knew that the cultural transformation was only just a piece of the high reliability puzzle. Without the structures, processes and technology to support performance as intended, we could never achieve true high reliability. That is why it makes sense to implement Epic Together now. Epic supports reduced care variation and reduces the likelihood that preventable harm will occur at our organization. When we have the reliable tools in the hands of a reliable workforce, we will truly be able to achieve zero harm.”

Emily Halu, VP of High Reliability at RWJBarnabas Health