Navigate EHR Modifications in Healthcare IT Using Epic EHR
The world today is incredibly fast paced, especially when it comes to healthcare IT solutions and EHR modifications. If you are a healthcare provider, the demands on your IT staff and systems are nearly impossible to meet. Patients and regulators demand privacy and security for sensitive data, while your organization’s leaders are requesting more operational efficiency, higher revenue, and reduced cost of care delivery.
Are you wringing every last drop of data, reimbursement, and quality care delivery out of your current systems? Is your EHR a fine-tuned machine, able to adapt to changing healthcare IT expectations? Is it stalling out, unable to keep up with changing technology and demands? Or is it somewhere between the two extremes, meeting your team’s needs, but being surpassed by newer, more flexible systems?
If your team is looking for a better way to navigate EHR in healthcare IT, consider utilizing Epic EHR and Epic-as-a-Service for EHR for a variety of benefits, including improved patient care, increased efficiency, and accelerated time to value.
Adapt to Epic EHR Modifications with an Expert Guide
Whether your organization’s EHR could use minor adjustments or a complete overhaul, having access to expert attention and some extra hands on could be a major benefit. With Epic-as-a-Service, your team will have access to expert technologists who can answer questions, provide a roadmap, and overall customize your approach to meet your long-term IT development goals.
Finding a Qualified Epic EHR Partner
How do you find the right partner for your company’s EHR needs? There are many important qualifications to consider, including certification and experience in a wide variety of platforms and EHR applications such as Epic and MEDITECH, along with a demonstrated history of success.
Here is an overview of the skill sets and capabilities to consider in order to find a cost-effective, knowledgeable partner who can provide Epic EHR staffing support, infrastructure design recommendations that support your applications (yes, infrastructure matters), and insight on the timeless topics of Backup and Disaster Recovery.
Epic EHR Staffing Support
An effective EHR partner should be able to provide staffing support across your organization.
- Optimize Contracts: Complexities within and between tools should be no match for an effective Epic partner. Your partner should be able to optimize payor contracts within Epic, even for those with third-party RCM tools. This can save your internal teams time and help you navigate the complexities of payor relationships.
- Manage Integrations: Healthcare organizations are increasingly working together, which means they need to manage integrations of Epic systems. Whether you need to integrate two Epic systems, integrate a call center application with Epic, or modify your existing EHRs to provide a cohesive patient experience, a knowledgeable partner can help you get the job done.
- Dedicated Teams: With at-home patients, it’s imperative that your Epic environment works smoothly. With a dedicated team for Epic EHR, you can be sure your partner understands the unique system and clinical challenges of Home Health and Hospice.
Infrastructure Design Solutions
Top IT architects will be able to design integrated infrastructure solutions that address clinical, business and technology. They will optimize for high reliability, consolidation improvements, storage tiering, scaling, and lowest cost. From High Performance Computing for deep learning environments to integrations with MyChart to improve HCAHPS scores to finding new ways to stretch your healthcare IT, a qualified partner can provide any variety of solutions and configurations that you need.
Backup and Disaster Recovery
Reliable backup and disaster recovery are two important aspects of strong healthcare IT infrastructure, but they can be challenging to manage and maintain. Nonetheless, you need the right systems in place to back up your important EHR and business data while simultaneously keeping your data running like a fine-tuned machine. Utilizing Backup as a Service (BaaS) or Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) can offer the best of both worlds. Look for a partner that has consistently achieved streamlined performance, higher efficiency, cost reductions and optimization in both Epic and MEDITECH environments so you can rest easy knowing your Backup and Disaster Recovery are running smoothly.
Choose Comport as Your Epic EHR Partner
There’s no need to undertake changes in your healthcare IT systems alone. There are resources and skilled experts that can assist and guide you, ensuring you reach your destination: elevating your IT to meet and support business goals.
Epic as-a-Service powered by HPE is a comprehensive Epic cloud solution that provides the best of both worlds: cloud-based agility and efficiency with the accessibility and security of on-premises controls. Collaborate with Comport to find the solution that best meets your needs.
Bill Flatley, Field CTO for Healthcare
Bill is responsible for technical strategies and recommendations for Comport’s Healthcare clients. His extensive experience includes four healthcare systems in leadership roles supporting Clinical Applications, Digital Health, and Office of the CIO as the primary liaison between IT and the business.
