EHR / EMR Case Studies & White Papers

51. Achieving SNOMED CT® Compliance For Better Care Delivery 3/30/2016

    The healthcare industry faces a critical question of semantics. As Meaningful Use (MU) converges with ICD-10 and the evolving performance-based revenue landscape, one important issue for health IT vendors and providers alike is the need for a common clinical vocabulary.

52. EMR & ECM: RX For Healthcare IT 3/28/2016

    The healthcare industry faces enormous challenges, including rapidly changing regulatory, financial, and technical issues. Electronic medical records (EMR) systems help in addressing these challenges, but organizations should also consider electronic content management (ECM) solutions for even greater improvements in practices and processes.

53. Epic EHR Optimization 1/29/2016

    Migrating to a new EHR is full of challenges and according to reports (1), the challenges keep coming post-migration. In fact, a recent article in Hospital EMR and EHR.com shows hospitals are struggling with longer AR days and lost revenue that lead to lower credit ratings.

54. Active Data Quality (ADQ) For EHR Migrations 1/29/2016

    Boston Software Systems’ Active Data Quality (ADQ) service is the combination of our expertise, process and technology to remove the burden and risk of manually migrating data from legacy systems to your new EHR. Boston Software Systems marries the knowledge of our migration team with our standardized process and the power of the Boston WorkStation® migration platform.

55. EHR Migration Guide - Ensuring Patient Safety, Satisfaction And Clinical Adoption 1/29/2016

    Each phase of EHR migration requires planning; an understanding of what data is needed to provide the most complete EHR on day one of the go-live to support clinical adoption, patient care, safety and satisfaction. This white paper examines the strategic considerations and challenges encountered in migrating and making data available in a new system. It offers solutions to ensure your EHR migration works within your budget, provides you with the most complete record of your patients' history and ensures completion within your timeframe.

56. The Four Essential Steps To Effective Order Management And Their Implementation At University Of Kentucky Healthcare 1/19/2016

    Standardized, evidence-based order sets have been shown to be a key driver in meeting the mandates of healthcare reform. The maintenance, revision and creation of order sets, however, can be arduous without integrated systems and a carefully laid-out process. In this whitepaper, Dr. Jim Nolin, who has led order set development for several facilities and now serves as editor-in-chief, order sets, for Elsevier, breaks down the steps of effective order set management.

57. How Practice Interoperability Helps To Achieve An Integrated Health System 1/4/2016

    As healthcare shifts from fee-based care to value-based care, the major focus of healthcare organizations has been on looking at the underpinnings of an integrated health system including continuum of care, coordination of care and collaboration for care.

58. Streamline Care Delivery And Clinical Workflows With Care Team Collaboration 12/9/2015

    Today’s healthcare system is in the process of making one of the most significant transformations in its history. Organizations are shifting away from a volume- based business model and into the new value-based reimbursement industry. Value-based care is highly collaborative and requires a team-based care delivery approach to provide high quality and low cost services, while also meeting requirements of federal and state level payment regulations.

59. Mercy’s Law — Hope For The Best, Plan For The Worst 12/3/2015

    EHRs are continuing to transform the healthcare industry for the better — providing critical data to assist physicians, changing how patients are treated, and ultimately improving patient outcomes. As EHRs become a standard of care, clinicians come to count on real-time information, accessible when and where they need and want it. However, as Murphy’s Law states, anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. For healthcare organizations relying on EHR systems, it’s not only important that the system perform reliably under optimal conditions — it’s critical the same system works when everything goes wrong. By Dave Nesvisky, Executive Director NetApp Healthcare

60. Not-for-profit Healthcare Provider Enables Rapid Growth And Manages Overheard With Integrated EHR System 11/10/2015

    The organization employs approximately 7,000 workers, including 300 physicians and 250 visiting nurses, and it provides a wide range of medical services at each campus to streamline the patient care experience.