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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use their EHR in our hospital and clinics. It is utilized throughout all of our hospital patient services.
Pros
- One of the most cost effective whole hospital & clinics services
- Web based and continued development in areas of patient care.
- Clinic module was recent added. It does have some limitations, but hope over time these will be addressed.
- We host it locally at our hospital, helps with security issues.
- Scheduling and patient engagement is a great benefit to help communicate with patients.
Cons
- The clinic module needs to have a way for providers to electronically sign referrals. Right now we are using Updox for this workaround right now.
- Prescribing medications does require additional steps. Would be great to consolidate some of the steps.
Return on Investment
- Our hospital started with [...], which became [...], which was bought by [...], then [...], and now [...], which has been acquired by a company from India. Even with all these transitions, we have been able to keep the overall costs of services down in comparison to other systems we had looked at along the way.
- As we transitioned from one "owner" to the next, we were able to at least show that we had paid for the software at one time and helped save us additional costs as a result.
- Negative impact was in our clinic, which it does require additional clicks (versus Amazing Charts), but on the other hand it is much more secure, so that is a trade off.
- The overall cost of ownership is about 60% lower than when we looked at EPIC, so for our size it made financial sense to continue to work with [...] to help improve its efficiencies.
Usability
Alternatives Considered
Epic, Cerner Millennium and Meditech Electronic Health Records
Other Software Used
i2i PopIQ, Updox, WebPT
