Dignity Health

IMPORTANT CLARIFICATION: Dignity Health is not an EMR/EHR software vendor. Dignity Health is a healthcare delivery organization operating as part of CommonSpirit Health (formed in 2019 from the merger of Dignity Health and Catholic Health Initiatives). The organization operates over 140 hospitals and 1,000+ care centers across 21 states, primarily in California, Arizona, and Nevada. As a healthcare provider system, Dignity Health is a *customer* of EMR/EHR vendors rather than a vendor itself. The organization has historically used Epic Systems as its primary electronic health record platform across its hospitals and affiliated facilities, implementing Epic's integrated suite for inpatient, ambulatory, and revenue cycle management. The confusion may arise from the fact that Dignity Health's website (dignityhealth.org) appears in EMR vendor databases, but this is a misclassification. Healthcare systems like Dignity Health do not sell EMR software to external practices or hospitals; they deploy enterprise EMR systems internally for their own clinical operations. Organizations seeking to purchase an ambulatory EMR system should look to actual EMR vendors such as Epic, Cerner/Oracle Health, Athenahealth, eClinicalWorks, NextGen Healthcare, or other certified health IT developers. Dignity Health's technology infrastructure decisions are made at the enterprise level to support their own multi-facility healthcare delivery network, focusing on care coordination, population health management, and integrated delivery across their continuum of care sites. The organization serves patients across multiple specialties including primary care, cardiology, oncology, orthopedics, neuroscience, women's services, and emergency medicine, but this reflects the clinical services they provide as a healthcare system, not EMR software capabilities they offer to external customers.