News Feature | August 8, 2014

EHR Integration Upgrades Clinical And Financial Efficiencies

By Karla Paris

EHR Integration Benefits

Community Hospital Corporation, a community-based healthcare organization, goes live across three states with an integrated platform of clinical and financial modules.

Traditionally, acute care hospitals are not designed to handle the demands of patients requiring long term acute care. This accounts in part for the growth of Long Term Acute Care Hospital (LTACH) opportunities.

Recently, Community Hospital Corporation (CHC) announced its LTACHs’ are integrating a new EHR platform. CHC awarded the contract to Health Care Software (HCS) in late 2013 and since has gone live with HCS Interactant in Kentucky, North Carolina, and Texas.

CHC owns, manages, and consults with hospitals through three distinct organizations – CHC Hospitals, CHC Consulting, and CHC ContinueCARE – which share a common purpose to guide, support, and enhance the mission of community hospitals and healthcare providers. Based in Plano, TX, CHC provides the resources and experience community hospitals need to improve quality outcomes, patient satisfaction, and financial performance.

The Interactant healthcare software system that is in place in the LTACHs’ is comprised of five modules and delivers comprehensive, end-to-end support for the operational and clinical aspects of CHC’s healthcare management:

  • revenue cycle management
  • financial
  • EMR
  • mobile
  • insight

Within the five modules, Interactant’s multiple web-based modules automate and streamline CHC’s workflow with a broad range of interoperable functionality – from electronic medical records technology (EMR) to reimbursement software – all on a single platform.

In an announcement about the integration, Brian Doerr, CHC’s SVP of Information Technology, noted that “HCS Interactant allows us to deploy individual modules or the entire integrated platform at each facility, as we grow the number of LTACHs we own or manage.”

Using its relational database technology, information from the EMR module’s clinical component is entered once at the point of care and available to all authorized disciplines and staff. Data collected from other Interactant modules – such as financial or reimbursement details – is available in the same centralized database, and can be accessed or edited as well.

SOURCE: PRWeb