Healthcare IT News December 3, 2024
Eric Jimenez of New Mexico’s Artesia General Hospital also discusses the value of optimizing current systems over rip and replace and facilitating social determinants of health data capture.
Artesia General Hospital is a 25-bed acute care facility in rural southeastern New Mexico. It has 16 clinics across the region, a main campus located in Artesia, and remote facilities located in Carlsbad. Its services cover a wide range of specialties including family practice, endocrinology, orthopedics, cardiology, urology, traditional inpatient and ER.
The small hospital found it critical to keep its IT systems on premise rather than move to the cloud because it is in an area with frequent internet connectivity issues. Its core EHR and revenue cycle applications are from TruBridge,...