athenahealth reveals cellular app Epocrates Connect for EHR coordination

athenahealth will be debuting Epocrates Connect, a mobile application that immediately connects into a provider’s EHR method, at HIMSS 2018 subsequent 7 days. The procedure employs machine mastering and language processing to give companies entry to details and coordinate affected person treatment no subject the EHR or treatment placing. 

“Providers nowadays invest approximately 50 p.c of their time documenting in various EHR programs and a different 1 to two several hours after work ending the process. It’s no shock that approximately fifty percent of medical doctors are burned out,” Kyle Armbrester, chief solution officer at athenahealth, wrote in an email to MobiHealthNews. “The intention of Epocrates Link is to untether providers from the desktop and reduce ordinary documentation time by 30 per cent. But much more broadly, our eyesight is to improve providers’ EHR encounter, no subject what method they are demanded to perform on. With unparalleled access to information and the skill to integrate throughout EHR sellers, Epocrates Connect will carry consistency to scientific treatment, all though maximizing provider productiveness, lowering medical doctor burnout, and rising medical professional engagement.” 

Armbrester stated that companies now have to grow to be industry experts in just one EHR process, which can make it tricky to communicate with friends employing other EHRs about their patient’s care. The new application would make it possible for companies to manage their inbox, get ready notes for just about every affected individual, send files, and coordinate with other companies. 

“The eyesight for the Epocrates Hook up is to be EHR-agnostic: eradicating the latest have to have to be an pro across a large array of EHR methods and bringing consistency to clinical care no matter when or where a affected individual was handled,” Armbrester wrote to MobiHealthNews. 

Throughout the board interoperability has been a huge emphasis location for athenahealth. The company will also be showcasing their Apple Well being collaboration. In January, Apple released its newest phone, which features a new beta aspect in the Apple Well being app where by customers can aggregate, visualize, and retail outlet health data. 

“Apple is functioning with a quantity of health care establishments and IT sellers to do this, one of which is athenahealth,” Armbrester wrote. “For our customers, this indicates that their people will have an easy way to obtain their health details, including issues like allergies, circumstances, immunizations, lab success, medicines, processes, and vitals. Sufferers will obtain notifications when their data is up-to-date. This is an additional significant evidence stage of how athenahealth is opening up its community to enrich details liquidity across the health care ecosystem.”

In addition to the cellular applications, athenahealth has also been functioning on a machine discovering element to speed up administrative responsibilities for its people. The organization will be displaying how their product can course of action paperwork and coding, and manage authorizations and scheduling. 

athenahealth will be at The Venetian, Palazzo G at Booth 119 at HIMSS 2018 in Las Vegas from March 5th through 9th.