The Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry, in partnership with PDS Health Technologies, is set to become the first dental school in the United States to deploy a dental-optimized instance of Epic across medical, dental, and ambulatory surgical care settings.
Announced in late March 2026, the partnership brings PDS Health Technologies' specialized Epic platform to both Pacific's San Francisco and Sacramento campuses, spanning the Dugoni School of Dentistry and the Pacific Health Care Collaborative. In addition to the EHR rollout, PDS Health Technologies will provide revenue cycle managed services to help align the university's clinical and financial operations under a unified infrastructure.
Why This Matters
For years, the dental profession has wrestled with a fundamental disconnect: oral health data lives in one system, medical history in another, and surgical records somewhere else. The result is fragmented care, incomplete patient records, and students trained in silos.
This deployment directly addresses that problem. By bringing all three care settings onto a single interoperable record, PDS Health Technologies are building the kind of infrastructure that supports genuinely interdisciplinary care — and training the next generation of clinicians to operate within it.
Raybel Ramos, associate dean of information technology at Dugoni, noted that the platform provides the performance, security, and scalability needed to support complex academic and clinical workflows while ensuring data flows seamlessly across care settings.
About the Platform
PDS Health Technologies launched as a subsidiary of PDS Health — formerly Pacific Dental Services — in April 2024, with a mission to extend its dental-optimized Epic infrastructure to external organizations through Epic Community Connect. The platform currently supports more than 14 million unique patients across over 1,250 sites of care, making it the most widely adopted dental-optimized Epic instance in the country.
Preston Raulerson, president of PDS Health Technologies, cited University of the Pacific's prior investments in healthcare integration — including an integrated clinic already in operation — as a key reason the school was a natural fit for this collaboration.