Care Orgs Invest in eCW, Epic EHR Implementation for Interoperability

CA Gastroenterology Org Taps eClinicalWorks Cloud EHR

Redding Gastroenterology has transitioned to the eClinicalWorks cloud EHR for enhanced interoperability.

The implementation is set to support the California healthcare organization by creating a single patient record and improving data storage and security.

"We strive to improve our operations and patient offerings regularly in order to provide exceptional and comprehensive gastroenterology care to every patient we see," Dan Carroll, office manager of Redding Gastroenterology, said in a press release. "The eClinicalWorks Cloud allows us to leverage streamlined and automated tools to reduce physician burnout and focus on holistic patient care,"

"eClinicalWorks' cloud solution equips us with a full scope of our patients' histories and information, which results in proactive healthcare care offerings," he added.

With the implementation, Redding Gastroenterology can collate and compute patient data from all sources. Additionally, the system allows for real-time zonal and regional redundancy and flexibility to support future growth.

Epic Community Connect Program Brings EHR to High Point University

High Point University (HPU) in North Carolina has partnered with Pacific Dental Services (PDS), a dental support organization, on an Epic EHR implementation.

HPU will use the Epic EHR in its Workman School of Dental Medicine and dental practices affiliated with it through the HPU Oral Health Network.

The collaboration comes through Epic's Community Connect program, which allows larger healthcare systems using Epic to extend system use to other organizations that would not otherwise be able to invest in the platform.

PDS will implement Epic at High Point University and provide the onboarding and training for the platform. The organization will also maintain ongoing support services for HPU.

Dental students at HPU will be able to use Epic for real-world exposure to the future of dental-medical integration while providing integrated dental and medical care to patients.

"We are honored for the opportunity to work with the High Point University Workman School of Dental Medicine to enhance dental and medical data integration and enable the future of oral health care," said Stephen E. Thorne IV, founder and CEO of Pacific Dental Services.

"We know the impact dental professionals can have on patients' overall health and in the overall health care system. We are taking steps to lead the industry and elevate dentists from being primarily focused on fixing dentition to embracing their full potential and becoming a vital part of every patient's primary health care team."

Family Medical Clinic Moves to eCW EHR to Improve Practice Operations

A small family medical clinic in Oregon has selected an EHR implementation from eClinicalWorks to improve practice operations.

"Based on cost and security, the eClinicalWorks Cloud is a better way to run our practice. For starters, being cloud-based, we don't have to bear the expenses of maintaining and upgrading servers and employing our own IT staff to maintain all that infrastructure," Darlene Francisco, FNP-C at Sunrise Mountain Family Medical Clinic, noted in a press release.

"The cloud technology provides quick access to patient information, streamlines the documentation process, and reduces costs," she said.

The implementation also supports real-time monitoring through Microsoft Azure to improve reliability and user experience for eClinicalWorks system users.

Additionally, the cloud-based system upgrades automatically, so Sunrise Mountain will not need to worry about server-side upgrades or deployment cycles.