[petersimon98]

To help hospitals bring benefits of EMR to physicians and patients

Dell is rolling out Electronic Medical Records (EMR) offering for hospital-affiliated physician practices to enhance the sharing of digital patient information among hospitals and physician practices.

The company claims the new offering to be designed to make it affordable and practical for physician practices to transition from paper to electronic records.

The new offering connects the community of physicians and their sponsoring hospitals and utilises electronic patient information to improve and coordinate care, help reduce costs and streamline administration across their local healthcare system.

The new offering includes hosted EMR and practice management software, office technology, and a complete services portfolio, including practice and site assessments to determine practice readiness and workflow requirements, physician and staff training and 24/7 software and hardware support via its ProSupport EMR helpdesk. The EMR application can be hosted by the hospital or Dell’s EMR partner in a secure datacentre.

Jamie Coffin, vice president of Dell Healthcare and Life Sciences, said: “The US healthcare system is suffering from a digital divide that we can no longer afford: patient information that is locked away in paper records; electronic medical records solutions that are beyond the reach of most physician practices and hospitals and physicians who share patients, but not patient information.

“With our hospital partners, we are knocking down EMR’s barriers to accelerate its adoption and in doing so, we’ll create the communities of practices and information-sharing infrastructure necessary to achieve reform priorities today and personalized medicine in the future.”