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Tips to pick an e-query system
Only 1.5% of the nearly 3,000 nonfederal hospitals in the United States reported the use of a comprehensive electronic medical record (EMR) system, according to a March report published in the New England Journal of Medicine. With so few facilities employing EMRs, why should CDI program managers consider implementing an electronic query system (EQS)?
“Simple,” says Jonathan L. Elion, MD, FACC, founder of ChartWise Medical Systems, Inc., in Wakefield, RI. “We are going electronic. Maybe kicking and screaming, but the healthcare system will eventually use an electronic health record. When that happens, where will [your CDI staff] put their paper queries?”
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