From the January 2017 issue of HealthCare Business News magazine

We also know that providers are not going to make disruptive changes to their EHR platforms after spending thousands or millions on their implementation. Instead, providers are going to look for ways to create additional value from their current infrastructure and take advantage of the thousands of clinical data points captured
in existing patient records. Providers will not be ripping out their systems, so we must provide better ways for clinicians to access information on specific patients at the specific time it’s needed.

That’s exactly what Phoenix Children’s Hospital did when it implemented Medicomp’s Quippe Physician Documentation tool alongside its existing Allscripts Sunrise platform. The clinicians needed quicker access to critical data at the point of care, in a structured format. Within two weeks of implementing Quippe, they were seeing 30 percent more patients. What’s more, because Quippe is architected to work with existing systems, the implementation was relatively easy. Quippe also performs quality- of-care checking and reporting for each patient at the point of care, so that physicians know whether or not they’re meeting MACRA quality measures.
The Trump presidency will certainly bring change. For health care and health IT, however, the changes will be evolutionary and not revolutionary. But even if the ACA is completely repealed, what won’t change is clinicians’ ongoing need to have better documentation tools and better information at the point of care.

About the author: David Lareau is the chief executive officer at Medicomp.

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