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In October of 2006 the US Congress lessened the Stark Law restrictions regarding “Safe Harbor” and opened up new opportunities for hospitals to work with their affiliated practices encouraging the adoption of an electronic medical record. The October 2006 "Stark Safe Harbor" announcement opened the door for hospitals to in effect "fund" the acquisition of an EMR by community physicians. This announcement presents a "window in time" where hospitals, particularly in highly competitive markets, can increase the "bond" with their community physicians and dramatically improve the continuity of care and patient experience offered.
Imagine a medical world where hospitals, affiliated practices and patients had a common bond — a continuity of care record. In this new world patients would seamlessly move from affiliated primary care provider to specialist onto the hospital without the burden of copying paper charts, requesting additional copies of labs, prescriptions or notes. Drug interaction checking, referrals and medical history would all follow and be updated at each stop. Doctors across the network would also have greater visibility to patient data, an opportunity to reduce overhead costs and most importantly improve patient and staff satisfaction.
Like so many industries technology has helped revolutionize the way business is conducted. For the medical industry it’s not just about doing business better and streamlining the management of your practice; it’s about saving lives, reducing the chance for medical errors and having access to clinical decision support tools that can improve patient care. But technology alone is not the answer. Each hospital and its affiliated practices have unique needs and goal with regards to why and when an electronic medical record makes sense. That’s why at Physician’s Trust we take a custom approach to understanding your needs and build workflow solutions around your goals.
The Physician’s Trust team has the experience to navigate a hospital to practice implementation while still meeting the unique needs of individual practices. The Company can help define this subsidy project, select vendors and implement on a practice by practice level. We can offer customized implementation programs, onsite or hosted application options, ongoing training, user groups and project management. We manage the roll out at the practice level to ensure adoption and success. But don’t take our word for it. Take some time to hear from some of our most valued customers »