Allscripts Professional EHR vs. ESO Electronic Health Record

Some of the key questions include functionality of the EHR in today's electronic marketplace. Also customer support ratings are important due to many ongoing difficulties previously experienced with older EHRs. Allscripts is well suited to the outpatient setting where many preformed templates provide a comprehensive overview of patients. Additionally, Allscripts' link with the imaging portal PACS is second to none.

For most EMS providers, ESO EHR is an ideal solution: It meets 95% of the needs for the typical EMS provider, provides an unparalleled ease of use for field personnel documenting patient care, and is easy to implement and administer. Large EMS systems should carefully consider the limitations of the underdeveloped quality management modules for QA/QI programs. Large or progressive EMS systems with an advanced data analytics/data science capability should be aware of the significant challenges and limitations ESO EHR poses for data use outside of the standard analytics reports.

Incentivized

• Intuitive with documenting office visits
• Easy to navigate around the screens when researching patient information
• Able to customize lots of things throughout the program to work with requested workflows

Incentivized

• Exceptional user interface/user experience design that is intuitive and easy to use.
• ESO, as a company, is deeply integrated into the EMS industry and recognizes customer needs better than competitors.

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• Allscripts could use improvement with stability. Once in awhile, the software would freeze upon loading images saved from radiology or lab reports. It frequently had trouble with login credentials.
• Improve the clarity of scanned images in patient's EHR.
• Conversability with other platforms, like Cerner, Epic, and McKesson.
• Improve the way InterQual loads review platform as well as emailing hospital case manager feature.

Incentivized

• The biggest gap is that doing QA/QI is not scalable or streamlined for a large provider. Managing an effective QA/QI program takes an incredible amount of labor and extra work.
• The lack of customization and custom fields heavily limits use of ESO EHR to capture new data points for internal quality improvement or research projects.

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Customer support has been spectacular: Personalized, rapidly available, and very helpful.

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It was already in use when I was hired. I have mostly figured it out just messing around with it in my earlier spare time.

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ESO EHR won out due to ease of use for providers and for administration. Other vendors had greater ability to do data analysis, quality management, and customization but ultimately were significantly more difficult to learn, use, and administer.

Incentivized

• The ease of use for providers to complete documentation has had a very positive ROI.
• The ease of administering the software has saved significant money and delivered very positive ROI.

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