Lake Chelan Community Adopts ChartConnect

Chelan, Washington - March 10, 2002. Lake Chelan Hospital and area providers have jointly agreed to adopt ChartConnect as their community-based Electronic Medical Records system.

After several months of investigation and planning, Lake Chelan Hospital, Lake Chelan Clinic providers and Community Choice have agreed to adopt ChartConnect EMR into the Chelan community. Because of it's community-based design, ChartConnect will allow area physicians to share charts as needed to care for patients moving within the community. For example, Lake Chelan Hospital Emergency providers will have emergency access to patient charts at Lake Chelan Clinic. This will allow ER providers to quickly assess patient history including items such as medication lists, drug allergies, current and historic problem lists and other details important to treatment. Clinics benefit from the immediate electronic notice ChartConnect sends telling the clinic provider that their patient was in the hospital, allowing the clinic to contact the patient to schedule follow up care.

Lake Chelan Office Manager, Karen McKellar and Susan Towne of Lake Chelan Hospital lead the investigation and planning. All parties in the decision were particularly drawn to the ease of use, cost effectiveness and the productive way ChartConnect handles the flow of information between the players (providers, hospitals, labs and transcribers) via automated interfaces, saving many hours of labor.

The pressure on health care clinics and facilities to provide increasing amounts of information while receiving decreasing revenue has reached a critical level...and legacy EMR programs have been marginal at helping. Providers who have experimented with various EMR types have often found them to be designed more for medical records employees to gather paper records into electronic form, rather than a productivity tool for the provider.

ChartConnect has been designed with the help of three new technologies that finally matured enough to allow an EMR to actually increase provider and clinician productivity. Internet browser-based programming languages, Health Level 7 (HL-7) interface standards and touch-screen Web Tablets are all used by ChartConnect to actually increase provider and clinician productivity while greatly reducing the burden on medical records staff.

About ChartConnect.com
ChartConnect, Inc., based in Yakima, Washington provides a comprehensive electronic medical record for physician practices and hospitals nationwide. They are the leader in connecting healthcare communities to build the most easy-to-use online patient records available for patient care, anywhere. ChartConnect allows everyone involved in a patient's care to easily and securely access and share information by integrating with local healthcare providers. With full-featured productivity and decision support solutions, ChartConnect offers a complete patient management tool, helping physicians, nurses, and office professionals streamline workflow, save time and money, and improve patient care. ChartConnect, Inc. and its affiliates have provided premier healthcare services - including medical networks, practice management and billing systems - since 1985. Visit www.chartconnect.com or call 877-567-6825 for additional information.