Electronic health record systems provide a tremendous opportunity to integrate information between the many providers of care for long-term care residents. With an EHR system, providers are better positioned to reduce critical errors, improve resident safety and quality, increase nursing satisfaction, and decrease costs.
Today, we are seeing an accelerated move to implement such systems. To get the best return on investment, each decision should be carefully thought out. A complete, integrated and efficient approach must be taken to get the true value of EHR. Administrators must consider all of the critical clinical components involved including labs, dietary, treatments and of course medications.
Until now, to get an electronic health record that included medications required making a choice between rekeying the orders into an EHR at the same time they were sent to the pharmacy for filling, or letting the facility's EHR decision be driven by the pharmacy provider. The result? A less-than-optimal delivery that was cumbersome, inefficient and restrictive.
There are many robust and diverse EHR vendors from which to choose. Once you have compared and selected the best one for your facility, you shouldn't have to compromise to a different system because of your pharmacy provider. Flexibility is key when the goal is a single point of data entry to eliminate re-entry errors and the costly reconciliation of medication administration records every month. You need confidence that your pharmacy provider will integrate with the EHR system that works best for you.
At Remedi SeniorCare, we support your EHR choice, which is why we developed a groundbreaking electronic data interchange we call Connexit. Connexit is an advanced integration system using industry standard HL7 to accept your resident data and medication orders without the cost and risk of re-transcription. With Remedi's Connexit, you choose your EHR and your electronic medication order entry solution.
Remedi's Connexit can be paired with your EHR or with our own best-of-breed electronic order entry solution to ensure efficiency and accuracy while eliminating monthly MAR reconciliation. Connexit integrates our electronic order entry system directly into your EHR. With it, you can be confident that the right medication with the best substitution from the appropriate formulary is selected for clean orders to the pharmacy and your medical records system.
Not ready for a full EHR deployment? With no software installation, you can still improve outcomes while saving time and money by using Remedi's Connexit and advanced electronic order entry system. Then when you are ready for an EHR, Connexit is available to provide the pharmacy integration you need.
When integrating health technology, it is essential that systems be specifically tailored to match individual facility needs in order to achieve the best outcomes and greatest ROI. At Remedi, we think it is important for our customers to be able to choose the best fit for EHR and electronic ordering systems in order to deliver optimal resident-centered care for their residents and run their businesses. Providing this superior freedom of choice through Connexit is just another example of our customer-inspired innovative solutions.
Rob Kerr is the senior vice president for information systems at Remedi SeniorCare.