EMR Consultancy ImplementHIT Positions St.Vincent Health to Achieve Cost Savings & Federal Stimulus Incentives - June 23, 2010
Orlando Florida --
LOS ANGELES - (Business Wire) ImplementHIT, a consulting group specializing in empowering hospitals and large physician practices to implement electronic medical records (EMR) systems, announced today that, following successful implementation of AllscriptsTM Enterprise EHR v11, they are beginning the second phase and ongoing online training at St.Vincent Health. A nonprofit health care system, St.Vincent is sponsored by Ascension Health, the largest Catholic health system in the nation. It is Indiana's largest healthcare employer, with 16 hospitals serving 45 counties in central Indiana.
ImplementHIT possesses unparalleled expertise with Allscripts EHR systems, including the latest Enterprise EHR v11. In June 2009, ImplementHIT was selected to help St.Vincent move the entire organization of nearly 300 providers from Allscripts EHR Version 10 to Enterprise EHR v11. St.Vincent recognized this rollout would require significant specialized support and configuration to be functional in their environment. They also required an effective training solution that would protect physician productivity and drive adoption. Physician adoption would lead to cost savings, increased productivity and attainment of federal financial ARRA stimulus incentives.
This project included subsequent integration of the sophisticated and complex v11 Note module. To ensure physicians utilized the full power of this EMR, ImplementHIT leveraged their online training platform to develop custom training that conformed to St.Vincent’s workflows.
“This Allscripts EHR is very complex,” said Margaret S. Cornwell, RDMS, PMP, Manager of the Allscripts Team for St.Vincent Health. “With the Note module in particular, I believe we’re ahead of the industry with what we’ve designed,” she said.
With ImplementHIT, St.Vincent has reduced their training time requirements by 30 percent in the first phase, enabling physicians to focus on treating patients. For St.Vincent this was critical because physicians can continue generating revenue by staying in the clinic instead of leaving for more training. Physicians have been able to participate in ImplementHIT’s online training when most convenient for them and outside of clinic hours. With ImplementHIT, they transitioned from a 100 percent onsite instructor-led live training session to a hybrid approach that incorporates online learning. This hybrid learning program leverages the best of onsite training for specific educational objectives with the online component customized to their configurations and workflows and the specialty-specific context of the learner.
St.Vincent is on track to demonstrate meaningful use to access federal ARRA stimulus incentive funding. In addition to measuring the effectiveness of the training program by the learner’s ability to achieve meaningful use, satisfaction scores from learners, and assessments by onsite support personnel have demonstrated a significant benefit. Physicians have found the training convenient and practical prior to go-live. Physician trainers note that onsite training has become far more efficient because learners have a foundation of prior knowledge. EHR support staff report physicians are better capable of achieving pre-implementation patient volumes in less time during go-live support. Because physicians generate revenue by staying in the clinic, St.Vincent has realized a savings of over $6 for every $1 invested into the training solution.
With this rollout successful, ImplementHIT will implement a second phase of online training based on their patent-pending technology. This will further reduce the online training time a projected 50 percent, and help St.Vincent achieve meaningful use of Allscripts Enterprise v11. More details on this technology will be available when it is approved by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
“We have been pleased to work with St.Vincent Health and they have been a great partner in the success of this project,” said Dr. Andres Jimenez, CEO, ImplementHIT. “We’ve succeeded because of their team’s contribution and the incomparable capabilities of our staff. ImplementHIT consists of experts in clinical and medical informatics, Ph.D.-level proficiency in online education, and deep hands-on Allscripts experience. With a team of physicians on staff, we understand how doctors use Allscripts EMR systems, so we make the absolute most of their training, while reducing time required,” said Jimenez.
“We fully customized our training to St.Vincent’s specific workflows and configurations of Allscripts, even including unique specifics for their specialties. Because we enable them to monitor physicians post-implementation, they can easily analyze EMR adoption, and we can use this to recommend steps for even greater efficiency,” said Jimenez.
Dr. Jimenez is a former clinical director of content and online training for Allscripts.
“I believe this will enable us to demonstrate meaningful use. The definition of meaningful use has expanded so hospitals and systems need to do a ‘big bang’ complete implementation,” said Cornwell. “To receive the ARRA stimulus funding, doctors need to be using most of the functionality in three to five years. This makes the education pressure on our clinicians much broader and more imminent, but ImplementHIT’s computer-based training has helped tremendously. The output and return of what we have received for ImplementHIT has been a great value,” said Cornwell.
About ImplementHIT
ImplementHIT (www.ImplementHIT.com) specializes in helping hospitals and large physician practices make the best use of technology, including Electronic Medical Records (EMR) systems. Led by a team of physicians skilled in all phases of EMR implementation, ImplementHIT focuses on content development and training and includes Ph.D-level proficiency in online training to help physicians most effectively use EMRs. Solutions include implementation planning, clinical content development and optimization, comprehensive online training and EMR implementation leadership. Experts in Allscripts, including Enterprise EHR v11 and v11 Note, ImplementHIT reduces implementation and training costs for hospitals and enables meaningful EMR use to achieve federal stimulus money.
Allscripts, Allscripts Enterprise EHR are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Allscripts-Misys Healthcare Solutions, Inc. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners.
ImplementHIT
Becky Sheetz-Runkle
703-501-0533
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