Modern Healthcare August 7, 2017
The hospital Brad Huerta leads simply didn’t have enough money to pay for a traditional electronic health record system.
It couldn’t afford the software.
And it couldn’t afford hiring a single information technology employee, not to mention a complete staff.
THE TAKEAWAY:
Cloud-based EHRs are becoming more popular, attracting providers with promises of lower prices and higher security.
So Huerta, CEO of Lost Rivers Medical Center in Arco, Idaho, decided to put the 14-bed critical-access hospital’s records and billing systems in the cloud. There, they’d be overseen and maintained by a software vendor, not by an internal employee that the hospital couldn’t afford to pay anyway.
More and more, hospitals such as Huerta’s are following in the footsteps of physician...
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