More from WHIT
8:20 am - 9:15 am |
|
Greg LeGrow talking about Care360 EHR pilot at BCBSMA
Only 32% of small physicians have an EHR solution.
Lessons learned:
- Active Physician Champions are vital
- Sponsorship and Financial Subsidies
- Choice of Lab and Radiology to address lock in fears
- Provider Advisory Group online community to increase level of engagement and peer support
Dr Paulo Andre:
EHR features required:
- Web Based
- Share data across the network not just in a practice
- Clinical notes
- Clinical messages
- Tests: Lab results, images etc.
Most EHRS made it difficult to share online, had a big learning curve, disrupted workflow and productivity, were complex and expensive ($500/month and $40k/Doctor)
They wanted something as simple and flexible as gmail.
MedPlus Care360 provides:
- web-based
- Easy sharing
- Disease Registry and able to send HEDIS quality feedback via EHR Message system
- Flexible data input: type, Speech recognition or upload transcriptions
- No impact to patient throughput - workflow doesn't impede workload
- Online upgrades make it easy to maintain
- Intuite and minimal training needed.
Phase 1: e-perscribe, Messaging
Phase 2: EHR with notes.
- Accessible from iPhone and iPad.
MetroWest experience:
100 Physicians in 40 Facilities selected Care360
74 from 30 facilities have activated Care360.
59 Physicians at 27 facilities are using Care360 daily.
Paper to Electronic transition in 4 weeks.
Meera Kanhouwa, MedPlus:
MedPlus: >160k physicians and >70,000 Practices
>120 EMRs
MedPlus is an IT subsidiary of Quest Diagnostics.
Average time to deploy is 16 business days.
94% of all US Practices are 5 physicians or less.
4,500 physicians in Maryland are connected.
- 40B Lab Results for 120M patients.
- Medication History, inc. Vaccines and allergies.
Quest connects to Google Health, KEAS and Microsoft HealthVault.
Care360 Mobile on iPhone/iPad.
Partnership with HP to deploy equipment and connectivity.
Actively involved with RECs.
Subscription based system. Data is not held hostage.
Care360 is a hosted single instance system. Every physician (172,000+) on Care360 is in the network.
Interesting note:
10 Physician referrals increase a hospital bottom line by $1 M to $1.5M.