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Submitted by Joe-H | 10/4/2007 9:54pm

Federal mandates require all healthcare records be stored electronically within the next ten years. This move from paper to electronic medical records will make practices more efficient and add to the patient's quality. However it also heightens the demand for fault-tolerant computing. A server failure can literally halt a practice from seeing patients. I believe that IT-constrained practices will need a robust, always on, easy-to-use EMR solution to meet these requirements. For example The Orthopedic Center of St. Louis recently implemented Sage Software's Intergy and Intergy EHR software on Stratus ftServer systems, resulting in a fully integrated practice and clinical management system.

What are your thoughts?

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Comment by Anonymous | 3/17/2008 7:31pm

Our practice is running our EHR on Stratus solely to avoid the hassles that martha_b experienced during an outage. Thus far, we have had no problems and are very pleased with the selection.

Comment by Mike P | 1/17/2008 8:50pm

I don't work in healthcare, but I can't imagine why a hospital/doc. office would move all their records to an electronic-based system and run it on flimsy infrastructure. Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't a server outage, with no patient records available, prevent appointments/surgeries from happening?

Comment by martha_b (not verified) | 10/9/2007 2:58pm

Last year our hospital staff lost access to our patients' electronic records. The day was disastrous. We couldn't review charts and lab results and could only see some patients. There were no security breaches or anything of the like that I am aware of, however an EMR failure is unacceptable. This technology is meant to help, not hinder, the process.

Comment by Don (not verified) | 10/9/2007 3:00pm

Our practice is considering moving to an EMR, but we do not have an IT staff. I'm worried about our ability to properly run the system. I have spoken with other physicians that have installed complex technology and after reading the last response I don't want to experience an EMR failure myself. I'm doing my research now with the goal of finding the best solution for our practice.

Comment by Anonymous | 11/3/2007 11:45pm

You might wish to see EHR Scope, with a list of over 240 EHRs. http://ehrscope.com/downloads/ehr_scope_fall07_web.pdf may help you decide which EHR is for you.

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