Comanche County Memorial Hospital’s (CCMH) goal is to create a single, secure electronic health record (EHR) across hospital departments and local physician offices, enabling faster access to complete and consistent patient information, including test results, encounter notes and diagnostic images.
Under the terms of the multi-phase initiative, CCMH will deploy a combination of the Horizon Clinicals suite of solutions, along with resource management systems and information technology services. The hospital plans to use McKesson’s products to reduce administrative costs, enhance and automate healthcare delivery processes within the hospital and bring together patient information into a single electronic format.
Central to CCMH’s initiative is McKesson’s complete ambulatory EHR offering, Horizon Ambulatory Care, which enables the hospital to partner with participating local physicians to create a single, secure EHR that supports enhanced collaboration and decision-making throughout the care community.
The new agreement extends CCMH’s existing partnership with McKesson, which has supported the hospital in fully automating its medication inventory management and tracking.
Future plans call for CCMH to deploy a combination of McKesson’s clinical, clinical analytics and financial administration products to gain insight into process improvement opportunities and to extend the EHR into the surgical, radiology and lab departments. In addition, physician portal technology will enable secure, web-based access to patient information regardless of the physician’s location.
In a latter phase of the clinical initiative, CCMH will deploy Horizon Expert Orders, McKesson’s offering for clinical decision support and physician order entry. The application provides physicians and other clinicians with advanced decision support based on the role of the clinician, the patient’s condition and evidence-based clinical knowledge.
Once the new clinical solution project is complete, CCMH patient medication orders will be electronically submitted by physicians, automatically filled and then barcode-scanned at the patient’s bedside before being administered.
CCMH has also decided to deploy McKesson’s online billing product, PatientCompass, which enables patients to view and pay a single, customized bill.
