Enterprise resource planning modernization enables integration of systems from medical records to payroll.
As health systems finish modernizing their electronic health record (EHR) systems, attention is turning to renovating enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, and the benefits of tightly integrating the two.
Deb Muro, chief information officer of the nonprofit health system,
El Camino Health, with hospitals in Mountain View and Los Gatos, California, says the process has improved productivity and enhanced access to data that proved vital during the current COVID-19-challenged times.
Speaking at the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives CHIME20 Digital Recharge event in November, Muro said the integrated system provides El Camino Health s top executives with a constantly updated view of such data as how many COVID-19 patients the health system has in its census, current supplies of personal protective equipment, and profitability of various service line
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The American Telemedicine Association, the Connected Health Initiative and other industry groups issued a letter to Congress on Friday urging legislators to extend temporary telehealth flexibilities until the end of 2021.
The groups, which also include
Healthcare IT News parent company HIMSS, noted that the COVID-19 public health emergency has ushered in an unprecedented expansion to telehealth.
At the same time, however, providers and patients face continued uncertainty about the future of virtual care – made even more tenuous by legislators failure, thus far, to enact permanent changes to telemedicine policies. The continued risk of telehealth flexibilities ending with each subsequent 90-day renewal of the PHE adds additional uncertainty to an already strained health care delivery system. Patients and their health care professionals should not have to worry if they will be able to continue to receive or deliver necessary care, read the letter.