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e-MDs: Charting the Future of Healthcare. Company Background. Founded in 1996 by David L. Winn, M.D. Headquartered in Austin, Texas Over 160 proud employees
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Company Background • Founded in 1996 by David L. Winn, M.D. • Headquartered in Austin, Texas • Over 160 proud employees • The e-MDs Team is a collaborative mix of physicians, nurses, pharmacists, practice managers, developers, & seasoned software professionals • Over 2,000 e-MDs practices and counting (ambulatory clinics, urgent care, FQHC/RHC, residency programs, community health networks, RHIOs, IPAs, MSOs, GPOs, integrated delivery networks, etc...)
What Makes e-MDs Unique? • Development guided by physicians, for physicians • Single database solution • Financial strength allows us to be customer-driven, without investor pressures • Consistently high industry ratings among EHR users • Corporate ethos of honesty, integrity and accountability • State-of-the-art, agile, next generation technologies • e-MDs cyber clinic provides real-time, real world feedback on our software
HIT Standards • Active nationally in EHR promotion and technical specifications development. • Appointed to CCHIT (Certification Commission for Health Information Technology), an organization tasked by HHS to establish EHR standards. CCHIT was awarded 7.5 million dollars in November 2005 to help fund the project. • Nominated to the HL7 Technical committee by members of CCHIT to serve as technical liaison. • Founding member of the EHRVA (Electronic Health Records Vendors Association). • Started CCR Acceleration Task Force, voting member ASTM E.31 for CCR • One of 5 Pilot sites for ELINCS (EHR lab interoperability and connectivity standards)
Why is CCHIT Important? • e-MDs Solution SeriesTM among 89 Products to receive CCHIT Certification in 2006 • e-MDs Solution SeriesTM among only 22 Products (19 companies) to receive CCHIT Certification for 2007 • CCHIT’s mission: accelerate the adoption of HIT by creating an efficient, credible and sustainable certification program. Criteria focuses on functionality, interoperability and security. • Over 300 products, thousands of marketing claims • Over 200 functional requirements must be met each year • CCHIT has identified & certified real-world, essential functionality criteria • Data security, protecting patient information, necessary features • The only federally recognized standards body • A nationally accepted check list for buyers to ensure legitimacy • Eligibility criteria for higher reimbursement (CMS P4P), Stark subsidies (via hospitals, lab vendors, etc.), malpractice insurance reductions, RHIO memberships
e-MDs Two-Time Champs – AAFP UserSatisfaction Survey Rated #1 2005 2008 By 408 Physicians By 422 Physicians
2005 Functionality Ratings * Chart and Statistics compiled by AAFP 2005 User Satisfaction Survey
Highest Rating in Functionality & Ease of Use * Chart and Statistics compiled by AAFP 2005 User Satisfaction Survey
e-MDs 2008 Functionality Ratings 300% more #1 rankings than the next best product! * Chart and Statistics compiled by AAFP 2008 User Satisfaction Survey
American College of Physicians (ACP) EHR Partner Study Summary
Research and Development • 2 Major Releases Per Year • 35% reinvestment back into R&D • Thorough Q/A testing, Alpha, Beta, Charlie, GA • e-MDs “content update manager” • Active e-MDs User Community • e-MDs National & Regional Users Group Meetings • e-MDs Customer Advisory Board • Every customer has Input • Users help determine new functionality
e-MDs DOQ-IT Initiatives: Compliance at the point of care DOQ-IT guidelines are clearly identified and come pre-packaged with all related visit templates. Helpful hints and decision support related to each DOQ-IT measures present themselves at critical times during the patient encounter.
e-MDs DOQ-IT Initiatives: Patient Monitoring Tools Provides tools to monitor and manage a clinic’s entire patient population based on all DOQ-IT Guidelines Not only can the provider measure compliance, they can also take immediate action to remedy situations with particular patients that are non-compliant directly from the monitoring tool.
e-MDs DOQ-IT Initiatives: Health Maintenance Guidelines DOQ-IT protocols are built into our clinical rules engine and present themselves throughout various areas of the application and allow the clinician to take action as needed.
e-MDs Patient Portal – Features Patient Access to Medical History