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Industry Practices Healthcare Services Software Product Engineering Services Electronic Medical & Health Records To achieve significant improvement in care, it is crucial to understand the benefits of 'meaningful use' of applications that manage patient records across the care continuum. An EMR (Electronic Medical Record) or EHR (Electronic Health Record) system can provide longitudinal record of electronic health information, making it feasible to comprehend patient information in a more coherent, systematic manner and use it for clinical decision-support systems.
At Silicus, we understand the multiple components that need to be bought together in an EHR system, like Patient RADT (Registration, Admission, Discharge & Transfer), laboratory, radiology, pharmacy, documentation, integration with other clinical and financial systems and more. We know how to properly design and integrate these modules for a comprehensive EHR. There are other factors that we also take into consideration during conceptualization such as product design, provider priorities/expectations by product implementation, interfacing to other ancillary systems, number of user groups, alignment to existing clinical workflow, adherence to compliance(for example HIPAA, HL7 standard etc.), and understanding the requirements related to analytics and decision-support.
Jose Ramon Mosteiro
Ford Oxaal
Dayon Kane
John Ferrari
Umesh Verma
Dan Boehm
Bo Keyslay
Michael VaughnWe leverage our ability to understand leading-edge technologies that guarantee world-class product architecture, design, implementation, deployment and servicing. Further, we have the right mix of techno-functional and QA experts that help you realize your goal of custom-product development while ensuring business-applicability, adherence to quality & compliance, scalability and cost-effectiveness. In addition, Silicus offers comprehensive services for implementation of following EMR/EHR modules:
- Patient Registration & Scheduling
- E-Prescription
- CPOE (Computerized Physician Order Entry)
- Integration with laboratory, pharmacy, radiology, billing systems.
- Management/Administrative dashboards and regulatory reporting
- Compliance to HL7 messaging standard and HIPAA EDI transaction standards.
- Medical billing
- Clinical Document Manager
- Audit and log Management
- Security and penetration testing to comply with HIPAA security and privacy guidelines
- SaaS-based development or enablement of existing EMR/EHR product
With our experience in designing and implementing products in the care domain, some benefits that we believe an EMR/EHR can bring to your organization are:
Adherence to Regulatory Compliance
2009 HITECH Act focuses on adoption of electronic health records as the first step to achieve 'meaningful use' incentive. Thus, opting for an efficient EMR/ EHR system forms the baseline to meet the quality, security, and privacy standards of HIPAA Title II.
Integration of disparate systems
An EMR system streamlines the hospital workflow to allow seamless exchange of information across clinical domains and user groups. Due to consolidation and aggregation of information sources, data redundancy is eliminated and lesser effort is required to maintain patient records.
Reduction in errors
Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE) is an EHR module that allows physicians to feed prescriptions, medication and other instructions electronically in the system instead of handwriting them. Similar EHR modules enforce electronic processing of patient records which in turn brings down the error rate drastically and in turn improves patient safety.
Interoperability
HIEs enable clinicians, hospitals, and physician groups to exchange patient records in order to coordinate and improve the quality and efficiency of care using standard messaging protocols like HL7. To join the bandwagon, having an EMR is the first building block for providers. EMRs can be further extended to support or integrate with available complex decision support and reporting systems.
Reporting for Compliance
Information capture at each patient encounter in an EMR system ensures well-documented evidence for regulatory reporting and audit purposes, like HEDIS, UDS audit reports, HIPAA privacy & security reports and other 'meaningful use' compliance reports.
Research
By utilizing unified view of electronic patient health information, EHRs can increase the efficiency of patient care and improve patient outcome. EHR systems alleviate research efforts by making longitudinal patient information available more promptly and reliably across diverse systems.