Predictive Analytics from eClinicalWorks Serves Front-line Clinics
Healthcare IT Today December 6, 2023
CareSTL Health has to conserve resources. As a federally qualified health center (FQHC) in St. Louis, MO, CareSTL Health serves people with no insurance. Patients often have trouble getting access to health cares services, suffer from serious illnesses, and need a lot of reassurance and communication to establish trust. Analytics in their eClinicalWorks EHR helps this front-line organization in several ways, according to Chief Medical Officer Hari Nallapaneni, M.D.
CareSTL, for example, makes use of the new AI-powered tool from eClinicalWorks that can help identify patients who are a most likely to miss their appointment (ie: no-shows). Missed appointments disrupt workflows, wastes precious resources, and takes away an appointment time that could have gone to someone else in the community...