Healthcare System Integration: EHR, Calendar, Messaging, Practice Management

Healthcare systems are increasingly implementing hospital management systems with the goal of being more efficient. The reality? This multitude of software is counterproductive. Let’s take a look at why.

With a growing technological landscape, healthcare systems are implementing more and more software. But while there are many benefits to technology, there are several drawbacks to handling multiple software platforms all within one hospital system -- time and money lost as certified physicians spend hours entering and accessing data across these platforms. Not only that, the extensive use of system management software is leading to physician burnout and decreased efficiency. Time Study integrates this software to provide a complete view of how practitioners spend their time which enables better workforce management, operational efficiency, and reimbursement. With respect to time studies, the three main benefits include:

1. Increased Accuracy and Revenue: Time Study’s services will track the time spent as reported in various systems by automatically pulling data, predicting timesheets and providing insights on how time is spent across appointments, procedures, with patients, and more. Why to Choose Integrated Practice Management Software encourages integration as “cost beneficial.” Software integration and automation saves time, money and resources in any organization by preventing duplication in capabilities and data as well as other complexities that waste money.

2. Workflow Analysis: Systems integration allows better workflow analysis through the recognition of patterns within the software systems in use. The American Medical Association (AMA) has described how “properly measuring use of the EHR is essential for health care IT and clinical leaders to see how physicians’ and other health professionals’ time is being spent, identify areas that can be improved, and measure success at improvement.” Money can be allocated to maximize the impact of physicians in hospital systems, and prevent physician burnout. This Healthcare Finance article, written by Jeff Lagasse, reflects on a study on how over 68% of physicians claimed they spent too many hours simply entering data

3. Time Saved: Manual entry by healthcare professionals and executives is no longer necessary. Time Study will automatically pull data through system integration, saving hours spent on entering in data by hand. One of the main Pros to Integrating EHR and Practice Management Software is that “. . .integrating the systems saves money because having the data in one system makes it easier to submit claims to payers.”