EHR Integration Reduces Duplicate Data Entry, Allows Real-Time Access
By Karla Paris
Texas-based healthcare facility selects integrated clinical and financial solutions for its enterprise needs.
Long-term acute care facilities and rehabilitation hospitals have unique clinical and financial challenges, such as multi-disciplinary teams needing access to patient data. The question is how a healthcare facility can get the patient information where it’s needed, when it’s needed, to the clinicians that need it. A Texas-based healthcare facility believes it has found the solution leveraging its partnership with an existing technology partner.
Carrus Hospitals, a physician-owned facility located in Sherman, TX, selected MEDHOST’s integrated clinical and financial solution for its hospital. The facility showed an interest in the MEDHOST inpatient electronic health record (EHR). Its Physician Documentation application was developed with direct input from physicians and aligns with existing clinical workflows, which makes it appealing to physicians.
To reduce upfront capital costs, Carrus opted to have the MEDHOST EHR and Physician Documentation application remotely hosted and managed through MEDHOST Direct, a comprehensive, secure, and HIPAA-compliant IT domain. MEDHOST Direct will also streamline implementation with software updates and maintenance provided, especially beneficial for IT staff that can now shift their focus from day-to-day system management to patient service and clinician support.
MEDHOST’s clinical solutions were developed specifically to enhance the end-user’s experience. Its clinical data management applications help improve financial performance in the two areas that can significantly affect Carrus Hospitals’ bottom line: the surgery and emergency departments.
The solution offers hundreds of standard reports and dashboards, including Executive View, which can quickly and easily retrieve the financial information needed to run a hospital successfully. Each application integrates with MEDHOST’S clinical offerings, giving hospitals like Carrus Hospitals a complete, end-to-end enterprise solution.
Carrus Hospitals meets the complex healthcare needs of patients who require acute rehabilitative care and long term acute care. The hospital’s resources, which include a 16-bed long-term acute care specialty hospital and a 24-bed rehabilitation hospital, also offer a full-range of physical and occupational equipment, and a special procedures area that provides CT scans, sleep studies, and X-rays.
Source: Business Wire