How pop health EHR modules led to better care and an ‘exponential increase in income’ at one practice

Healthcare IT News May 27, 2021
Bill Siwicki

“These modules expose patterns in population health data, allowing us to create programs and mechanisms to better understand disease and treatment trends,” said the founder of MMR Healthcare.

MMR Healthcare in Boynton Beach, Florida, had limited access to data, so it was difficult to obtain a clear, holistic view of the practice’s collective patient health.

THE PROBLEM

For example, staff members were swimming in redundant and time-consuming lists from insurance companies and were trying to work with a read-only electronic health record system. This was a big problem because the practice serves a large geriatric population of more than 4,000 patients who often suffer from many chronic conditions.

While staff members had bits and pieces of population health data, like...

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