Physicians could access the right data without toggling between systems during transfer.
Healthcare organizations are charged with improving quality, accessibility, and efficiency. Meanwhile, patient populations are exploding, medical knowledge is growing exponentially yet remains difficult to harness, and funding is constrained at every level. EHRs attempt to meet these challenges and transform care through the sharing of information and connecting of communities, but ensuring these systems are comprehensive, functional, interoperable, and able to be used in a timely and meaningful way is difficult. In fact, the migration of millions of patient records from legacy systems to new EHR systems is often a data conversion nightmare.
These were the obstacles facing the Franciscan Alliance, a 13-hospital health system serving Indiana and Illinois, when they migrated a 140-physician group practice to its new Epic EHR system. Physicians needed to access vital signs and patient identifiers for 250,000 patients, but these millions of records were not part of the initial year-long data conversion project. For the full article click here
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