Community EHR Benefits

COST
  • This is one of your lowest cost solutions for a Medical Record System.
  • Low startup costs.
    All you need to get started are standard computers networked together, a web browser, and a connection to the Internet.
  • "Pay as you go" monthly service fee gives you everything.
        Community EHR uses an Application Service Provider (ASP) model.
  • No long term contracts.
  • No yearly maintenance fees.
  • Learn more: Pricing
SUPPORT
  • We assist with:
    • computer purchases
    • installation
    • configuration
    • training
  • We manage the servers.
  • We handle the backups. (Solves the HIPAA compliance requirement to keep two copies of your charts in the event of a disaster.)
HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS
  • Better care through more complete information.
  • Fewer mistakes: Improve patient care through legible notes, shared access to the chart, and better presentation of the information.
  • No more "Where is the paper chart?"
  • Staff can access portions of the chart at the same time.
  • Low training: Simple, easy to use web forms.
  • From a single web page: Record a progress note, lab, study, vitals, meds, attachments, and billing info.
  • Custom templates: For your most common types of visits.
  • Access patient records from the office, home, or the hospital. Anywhere that has a computer with internet access.
  • Works well with a tablet PC.
  • Eliminate transcriptionist costs by typing or dictating your own notes. OR! Grant your transcriptionist direct access to your charts to create the notes, but still maintain access to the chart.
  • Grant the patient to participate in maintaining their health by taking regular readings and saving them straight to their chart. (Patient access to PHI - This HIPAA compliance requirement solved.)
  • Learn more: Features
PHYSICIAN PRACTICES / COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE CENTERS
  • Time savings for providers: Fill scripts with just a few clicks.
  • Improve your image. Your patients are asking more questions, demanding more information, and expecting more.
  • Improve office workflow.
  • Attract and retain quality staff through easier workflow processes.
  • Access patient records from the office, home, or the hospital. Anywhere that has a computer with internet access.
  • Eliminate transcriptionist costs by typing or dictating your own notes. OR! Grant your transcriptionist direct access to your charts to create the notes, but still maintain access to the chart.
  • Collaborate on care with other healthcare facilities more securely than a phone or fax machine.
  • Reduced cost for physical record storage.
COMMUNITY HOSPITALS
  • Extend information sharing with local private practices without exposing your internal systems.
  • You will see dramatic improvement in communication and collaboration between the hospital, community physicians, and patients. The end result is more referals to your hospital.
  • Reduce administrative costs by reducing the cost of processing paper, faxing, and re-keying of redundant patient information.
  • Reduce data entry errors by entering it only once and sharing it with those who have a need to know.
  • Do it without adding IT staff.
  • Do it for less by outsourcing it.
BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE
  • Evidence Based clinical outcomes.
  • Reduce institutional risk through better documentation and better coordination of care.
  • Satisfy state reporting.
  • Get information for program management.
  • "It is now humanly impossible for unaided healthcare professionals to possess all the knowledge needed to deliver medical care with the efficacy and safety made possible by current scientific knowledge." -- www.openclinical.org
  • Provide a "Circle of Care" by sharing the complete record between locations and support staff.
CLINICAL DRUG STUDIES
  • Create custom templates as a means of collecting secure, digitized responses from your patients in trials.




Community EHR's detailed documentation can be found here:
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