Leveraging Your CPSI Environment with an Interface Engine
Improve Productivity, Efficiency, and Physician Confidence
Overview
In today’s healthcare market, rapid technological advancements are dramatically changing the way business is done. The emergence and widespread adoption of Electronic Medical/Health Records, the bandwidth to transmit detailed diagnostic imaging files, and the ability to have cohesive communication between disparate hospital systems are just a few ways new technology is revolutionizing healthcare.
One way hospitals have adapted to better handle the trend, is to take advantage of systems like the CPSI application. Additionally, many healthcare and healthcare-related facilities are implementing interface engines that act as a “hub” in communication, not only with their internal departments, but external providers (clinics, labs, etc.) as well.
By implementing an interface engine at Henry County Health Center (HCHC), not only are we able to actively monitor all of our connections, ensuring stability, we are able to provide our physicians with patient results from sources such as the radiology department and labs electronically to their practice’s Electronic Medical Records (EMR)Electronic Medical Records (EMR) application. Additionally, as future connectivity to different devices or providers is needed, implementation into our environment will be accomplished quickly and efficiently.
Today, more facilities like ours are finding that utilizing both tools (CPSI application software and an interface engine) enable them to be more productive, accurate and profitable in today’s competitive healthcare market.
Balancing Growth with Support
In today’s competitive world, it was becoming more evident that in order to compete with other hospitals and medical clinics, while also meeting the stringent demands of our patients and satisfying the needs of our physician community, that adopting proven and cutting edge technology to better serve both our internal and external customers was paramount to cement our future success.
While our existent point-to-point connectivity between systems was very stable, we needed to have the flexibility to move as quickly as the industry. We knew that our environment was not static, and would continue to grow, both in size and scope.
The balance then becomes how to add connectivity and deliver high-quality support for the added connections while not stretching resources beyond what is doable.
Creating Competitive Advantages with an Interface Engine
After analyzing our current status, future goals, and the current marketplace, we decided an interface engine would provide us with the greatest flexibility to increase our service offerings without suffering any loss of service quality. We believed that having an interface engine would deliver a balanced approach.
The interface engine implementation provided us with the ability to exchange patient information between any physician’s EMR and the CSPI HIS (external requirements), meaning more data was communicated more quickly, and with more accuracy than was previously possible. It also enabled us to streamline workflow between internal applications (e.g., radiology, HIS, etc.).
Additionally, we found that being able to log and archive messages sent and received would be very beneficial. Where patient health is concerned, the way that we as technology professionals can best assist the process would be to keep records of any and all clinical data transaction history. This would ensure that if need be, that records of ‘what messages were sent’, ‘for whom’, and ‘to whom’ would be a few clicks away. The ability to do so would greatly increase the quality of care our patients receive, and provide our physicians and clinicians greater confidence in the work they were doing in HCHC.
What Are the Benefits?
Outside the cost associated with adding an application to manage in your (already full) IT environment, there are a myriad of advantages to adding an interface engine: ________________________________________________________________________To read a complete version of Leveraging Your CPSI Environment with an Interface Engine, follow the PDF link below.
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