History

Early Forays into Health Care IT

Mercy's first application, "Patient Accounting," is created, but in-house IT services were costly, and soon became outsourced.

An Agent of Change

Responding to increasing technology needs at the local level, Mercy pushes for systemic change by...

• Upgrading its hospitals' network infrastructure.
• Adopting comprehensive desktop device standards.
• Establishing a single point of Internet access.
• Rolling out a Picture Archive Communication System (PACS).
• Building a clinical data repository.

Early Recognition of Excellence

The American Hospital Association names Mercy to its "HealthCare's Most Wired" list for the first time.

Our Original Name

Mercy Information Services Division (MISD) was created, centralizing information technology resources from around the ministry.

Who We Are Today

MISD becomes Mercy Technology Services (MTS), unifying Mercy's business and clinical processes into a single business unit. MTS soon...

• Maintains an industry-best uptime of Mercy's EHR.
• Establishes a reputation as a leader in clinical pathways.

EHR Early Adopter

In one of the largest strategic initiatives ever undertaken by our organization, Mercy becomes one of the earliest adopters of the Epic electronic health record.

Beginning Our Journey to the Cloud

Partnering with VMware, MTS began building Mercy's private cloud. In 2018, MTS would become the first-ever health care VMware cloud provider.

Pioneering New Models of Care

MTS opens the new Mercy Data Center in Washington, Missouri, enabling us to scale our infrastructure to grow along with Mercy.

We continued to push the boundaries of innovation by rolling out...

• eICU
• Telemedicine
• MyMercy patient portal
• Virtualization
• Sepsis Early Warning & Identification System
• Integrated Patient Data Repository

A Tradition of Innovation

Mercy was named to "HealthCare's Most Wired" for the 10th year running.

MTS was also named...

• ComputerWorld's 2013 Honors Laureate in Emerging Technology
• NetApp's 2012 Innovation Winner

Epic's First Accredited Provider Partner

With its first Enterprise Connect accreditation, Mercy became the first provider in the world to be permitted to extend Epic's EHR system to other hospitals and health systems.

Honored for Excellence

For our efforts to lower mortality rates, reduce surgical costs and improve clinical documentation, MTS was honored by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) with the Nicholas E. Davies Award of Excellence.

Breaking New Ground

In addition to being named one of the country's Best Hospital IT Departments by Healthcare IT News, MTS was also honored for its trailblazing work in artificial intelligence by:

• Gateway to Innovation
• HCI Innovator Awards
• Analytics 50

Best-in-Breed PACS Imaging

MTS launched its cloud-based PACS as a Service platform. Designed to deliver all studies and modalities through a single workstation, MTS' PACSaaS offers high-performance hosting and lightning fast medical image processing.

Real World Evidence

Building off a series of research collaborations with global health manufacturing leaders, MTS announced its Real World Evidence Insights offering, which is designed to help medical suppliers and regulatory agencies improve devices and pharmaceuticals as a means of improving patient care.