Fort Wayne, IND. – July 1, 2024 – Dr. Mark Mabus, chief medical informatics officer and vice president of electronic health records at Parkview Health, recently received the Physicians Advisory Council PACademy Award from Epic.
Epic is the nation’s leading electronic health records system provider, in use in more than one third of acute care hospitals nationally and accounting for slightly over half of all hospital beds. Parkview has used the Epic system since 2012.
Mabus was recognized for his ongoing contributions to the community of more than 400,000 physicians utilizing Epic as their medical system. Mabus serves as a member of the Epic Physician Advisory Council Advisory Board, which shapes educational content for Epic providers; has created widely acclaimed educational content on how providers can reduce “note bloat”; has contributed tools, presentations and materials for use on Epic’s website, webinars, conferences and health system meetings; and leads Parkview in testing and implementation of new Epic features to prepare for deployment to the wider global healthcare network.
“Dr. Mabus is a true bridge between Parkview’s medical providers who are experts in caring for patients and our information systems team members who are experts in technology,” said Ron Double, chief information officer, Parkview Health. “Mark speaks both languages fluently and is invaluable in understanding the needs of our providers and finding and integrating the right tech solutions to support them in caring for our patients.”
Mabus is an active contributor on the Epic UserWeb, an online user forum for health systems that use Epic as their EHR. He regularly answers questions or shares tips for other providers nationally who have questions or are seeking input about features within Epic. He also uses the forum to solicit opinions and ideas from other health systems on how they handle problems that arise within their EHR.
In 2019, he also helped develop and launch an immunization reminder system within Parkview’s Epic system that resulted in more than 75,000 immunizations being provided year-over-year and was promoted nationally by Epic as an example to other health systems.
Mabus was also named one of Becker’s Hospital Review’s “CMIOs to Know” in 2023 for his ongoing contributions to the advancement of health technology.