Healthcare organizations, hospitals and healthcare providers have a vested interest in creating an infrastructure that delivers integrated patient information. As presented by the US department of Health and Human Services, it is understood that the outcome of care is improved when caregivers have complete, usable data, and that additional benefits are immediately acquired.
These benefits include improved operational efficiency, easier compliance with regulatory requirements, a reduced need for investment in IT systems and implementation, the ability to measure and manage quality of care and participate in research, and overall, increase operational efficiencies and significantly reduce operational costs.
Information systems available to healthcare organizations until now have not been able to fully deliver these benefits. This is primarily due to IT systems lacking a common or standardized method of representing clinical data (nomenclature, terminologies, coding systems, etc.).
In addition, the high degree of specialization demanded by clinical practices, as well as the tendency of healthcare organizations to adopt a best of breed approach for IT systems implementation, has increased the level of diversity and disparity of data. Consequently healthcare organizations have traditionally been forced to settle for basic, limited levels or integration of their clinical applications.
Equinox EMR’s interoperable technologies overcome the challenges of non-integrated data and systems, and create a holistic view of a patient’s care by building a patient-centric infrastructure based on interoperability. This enables disparate data information systems that store data in different formats, and potentially at different locations, to communicate and make use of integrated data that will provide caregivers, and healthcare organizations with an accurate, longitudinal view of the entire medical history of the patient.
Equinox EMR’s technologies also set the foundation for true semantic interoperability that enables further interpretation and understanding of the data. Based on service oriented open architecture, Equinox EMR’s technologies enable an effective exchange of health information between and within organizations, while maintaining the highest levels of security and privacy.
Equinox EMR’s solution is designed to overcome data integration barriers and provide caregivers online access to a patient’s comprehensive medical history, subject to privacy safeguards, while enabling policy-makers maximum flexibility to implement desired strategies for patient information management.
Equinox EMR is an African American majority owned company pioneering state-of-the-art healthcare information technology that offers its clients a full service high tech solution package. Equinox EMR provides comprehensive clinical system solutions critical to healthcare organizations and physicians’ success that provide the necessary HIT compliant to Federal and State regulatory requirements. From a functional standpoint, Equinox EMR has the most solutions which include e-Prescribing capabilities and disease management resources that will generate automated problem lists or bring attention to gaps in care.
Equinox EMR’s solutions bring together the core HIT for all providers of healthcare services. Our philosophy is built on bringing together all healthcare providers to facilitate the appropriate and secure sharing of patient data that supports improving healthcare quality, and reduces operational costs.
Healthcare delivery systems, hospitals, physicians and other healthcare providers have traditionally been faced with the issues in finding common ground through a single technology solution and Equinox EMR integrates the solutions for a multitude of objectives for different providers of healthcare.