A small community hospital located in Illinois is ready to replace its two existing EHR Software solutions deployed in 2012. It has started an Epic EMR Software implementation to combat the issue of clinician burnout and improve overall care delivery. Presently, one software system is for the hospital business and the other one is for the clinic workflows. The hospital finds the process time-consuming and costly to put reports together with this system.
What is Clinician Burnout?
Recently the Mayo Clinic conducted a study that revealed that physicians are at a higher risk of facing burnout than people in other professions. Clinician burnout is when the provider is stressed due to completing too many administrative tasks, worrying about online reputation, and working for long hours. Clinician burnout is a bad sign as it can harm the provider’s productivity and efficiency levels.
How will Epic integration help to combat the issue of clinician burnout?
Epic Electronic Health Records Software solution is known for its powerful features to streamline clinical, administrative, and financial workflows and offers great interoperability options. The new integrated system will improve access to crucial patient data at RCH. It will also facilitate seamless data exchange between hospitals that use Epic EMR Software to eliminate the need for archaic machines. The use of fax-based patient data exchange can result in clinician burnout.
Epic EMR Software has an intuitive interface design that is simple to navigate by staff members throughout the hospital. With a single click, patient information can easily views and sent. Having prompt access to patient data can also enhance care delivery as the provider is well informed with all the important information without any time lags. Once care delivery is improved patients visiting the community hospital will be satisfied with their treatment process.
Moving Ahead
The hospital is expected to use Epic EMR Software on May 1st, 2022. RCH aims to stay competitive with more prominent hospitals in the same locality and wants to provide better services to their patients. To make the EHR software implementation process a success RCH will ensure that the new users are trained to use the software system to their complete benefit. Once the EMR Software is deployed it is always a good idea to welcome feedback and suggestions from nurses, physicians, and front office staff members to identify any issues with the navigation of the software system.
