Epic-Care EMR
After reviewing the discussed lesson and checking other systems on-line, I decided that Epic-Care EMR will be the right system for the Blue Sky Clinic. Epic-Care EMR is a commercial off the shelf system (COTS) that can be configured to meet the Blue Sky Clinic information systems need.
Blue Sky Clinic is a small practice management group with limited funds and depends heavily on government reimbursement (Medicare/Medicaid) for the care it provide to patients. The clinic in it requirements is looking for a system that can qualify for government aid by complying with certification commission for health information technology (CCHT) requirements. This primary care focused clinic has a large geriatrics patients and practice personalized care in the management of chronic diseases.
Epic-Care EMR is a perfect system for the Blue Sky Clinic based on my finding of the functionality and the software architecture. The system is rated # 1 in its category by the KLAS Enterprises and has been for the last 10 years straight. It is stated that the system makes physicians more productive by simplifying the important facing elements of care delivery. In this case, it is capable of improving services by enhancing physician’s performance, providing more information to better trend care and fight competition. It has the potentials to reduce the cost of operations.
Epic-Care EMR is design to be a physician friendly system and it is used by providers of more than 100 specialties. It has prebuilt models that can be configured to meet specific work flow requirements. This will be of great benefit to the Blue Sky Clinic operational feasibility since it will require minimal support, encourage workflow reduction, ease the training of users and reduce adverse effect of care delivery.
This system has wide range of users and has been able to build on the content from successful customers including decision support, order sets, reports and documentation tools. If Blue Sky Clinic adopts this system, it will be capable of resulting in faster path to effective chronic care management and measurable quality gains. It will also aid the clinic better manage chronic diseases in personalized mode.
This system also meets the technical feasibility requirements of the Blue Sky Clinic in the sense that it has a record of brining physicians up the speed on time, on budget and with high performance tools – from orders and results to integrated voice recognition and other documentation shortcuts to meet the meaningful use. The system is compliant and has been certified by the certification commission for health information technology (CCHIT). It should be noted that this was one of the requirements for the Blue Sky Clinic.
Since the system is designed to have a single shared record, community physicians and the patients will be able to share record with Blue Sky Clinic at a reduced cost. It will also enable the continuity of care, enhanced quality of care and contributes to safer care because of the completeness of records. The system will be economically feasible because of the obvious tangible and intangible benefits. It brings IT staff and the users closer and also has the potential to reduce the cost of hardware and other equipments.
This system will aid Blue Sky Clinic in providing a framework for interoperability where, when the patients goes between health organizations, the physicians providing care will be able to view all of patient information. The design of the Epic-Care EMR makes it possible to interface with other Epic systems or non Epic system EMR that complies with industry standards.
