The IHR Improves GP Productivity
GPs face many challenges, particularly when, as often happens, the vital health record (whether paper or electronic) is not available at the point of care as patients move from acute care to the community. And, of course, the record is often missing work done by the many other clinicians caring for their patients that are prescribing medications, ordering tests and developing care plans. Even when some kind of record is available, the information is almost always incomplete; the physician must routinely rely on the patient's memory to recall past encounters; for chronic patients, attempting to glean this information often takes 25% of a visit.
The CentriHealth Individual Health Record (IHR) changes all of this by transforming the fragmented information from all available existing systems across the health spectrum into a unified individual-centric record. The IHR provides GPs with the right information from all providers wherever they are delivering care, fully integrated into a unified, understood form. The IHR, whether being used by itself, with another EHR, or fully meshed with the CCHIT-certified IHR Electronic Health Record optimizes physician workflow and productivity and demonstrably demonstrated quality improvement in an increasingly complex health delivery environment.
