Encompass Health is an integrated healthcare services company. The company has launched its 150th post-acute inpatient rehabilitation hospital located in Jacksonville, Florida leveraging the Oracle Cerner EHR software system. The software vendor offers clinical solutions, population health management, revenue cycle management services, and analytics. All these robust services have helped healthcare organizations automate and streamline clinical, administrative, and financial workflows.
Encompass Health and Oracle Cerner EMR software
The healthcare service company first joined hands with Oracle Cerner in 2009 to set up an inpatient hospital Electronic Health Records (EHR) software system. The technology was in pilot testing for two years in three of its hospitals.
After 2 years, in 2011 the healthcare organization and Oracle Cerner started to implement the system on a bigger scale. The implementation included every Encompass Health Hospital. The deployment of the Electronic Medical Records (EMR) Software system digitized the hospital’s workflows as earlier it was a traditional paper-based system.
Benefits of Oracle Cerner EHR system
The use of a standardized EHR software system and an implementation policy across all of Encompass Health’s hospitals have enhanced the hospital’s ability to complete and integrate developments and investments.
The healthcare providers are using the same comprehensive system which allows them to improve clinical documentation efficiency and reduce the chances of physician burnout. Oracle Cerner EMR software offers a set of powerful tools to improve the patient-doctor relationship. Doctors at Encompass Health have more time to concentrate on patient care rather than worrying about medical billing and administrative tasks.
Having complete patient information in the EHR software offers accurate and up-to-date information at the point of care supporting providers to make informed decisions regarding patient diagnosis and treatment.
It has helped the healthcare organization to reduce costs through a decrease in paperwork and has improved productivity levels and even reduce duplication of testing.
Moving ahead
The Oracle Cerner implementation technology across all hospitals by Encompass Health will also ensure that clinicians can easily work at any of the other Encompass Health hospitals without the need for training systems and workflows. This can improve patient care as physicians can easily concentrate on their patients leading to improved health.
