Source: Healthwise, Incorporated
eClinicalWorks and Healthwise Collaborate to Help Physicians and Patients
Healthwise Tools and Information Integrate With eClinicalWorks EMR and Patient Portal
WESTBOROUGH, MA and BOISE, ID--(Marketwire - October 8, 2009) - eClinicalWorks and Healthwise
announced today an agreement to provide two Healthwise solutions to
eClinicalWorks physician clients. Healthwise Information Therapy (Ix)
Patient Instructions, take-home patient educational materials, integrates
within the eClinicalWorks EMR; and the Healthwise Knowledgebase, an online
health information library, has patient-specific connections within the
eClinicalWorks secure Patient Portal.
Healthwise information embedded within eClinicalWorks helps physicians
improve care quality and provide patient education at the point of care,
maintaining their workflow efficiency. And when patients get home they can
connect from the in-hand information, received from their physicians, to
more information online in their personal health record (PHR) within
eClinicalWorks Patient Portal. The additional information, triggered by
their PHR, will include specific content and tools related to their visit,
including medical tests, procedures, or medicines discussed during the
health care visit.
"Patient information is important both at the point of care and at home,
where the patient may have additional questions," said Girish Kumar Navani,
CEO and co-founder of eClinicalWorks. "Working with Healthwise will help
our customers form a tighter relationship with their patients by offering
details about certain conditions and diagnosis so that patients can be
better educated about their health care."
Healthwise Ix Patient Instructions include more than 1,500 evidence-based
health topics and include Go-to-Web codes directly linking patients to more
than 6,000 health topics in the Healthwise Knowledgebase product. The
health content educates patients, helps them take an active role in their
care, and helps them make better decisions with their doctors.
"The value of good health information and patient decision aids is never
greater than when it is prescribed by a physician to his or her patient as
part of the care delivered," said Donald W. Kemper, Healthwise chairman and
CEO. "Through eClinicalWorks, physicians can now prescribe the
self-management support each patient needs with a simple click of the
mouse."
How the eClinicalWorks and Healthwise Integration Will Work:
To illustrate how Healthwise information will integrate with eClinicalWorks
EMR and Patient Portal, picture "Nancy," a patient with low back pain.
During her physical exam, her diagnosis data triggers the eClinicalWorks
EMR and then, as part of the regular workflow, the clinician can print and
give her a two-page, Healthwise Ix Patient Instruction on low back pain.
The Healthwise Ix Patient Instruction includes information about low back
pain, how Nancy can care for her back at home, and actionable instructions
on how to do more for herself to manage her condition. When Nancy gets
home, she logs into the secure eClinicalWorks Patient Portal where she
finds her PHR already has links to more information about low back pain
from the Healthwise Knowledgebase product.
If she had a medical test or if her doctor discussed surgery as a treatment
option for back pain, then she'd also find a link to a relevant Healthwise
Decision Point to help guide her through her decision.
About eClinicalWorks
eClinicalWorks® is a privately held leader in the ambulatory clinical
systems market. The company's unified electronic medical record (EMR) and
practice management (PM) solutions are proven for every market segment:
large practice groups, including Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative
(MAeHC), Electronic Health Records of Rhode Island (EHRRI) and the New York
City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, as well as medium, small and
solo practices regardless of specialty. With an established customer base
of more than 30,000 providers and 100,000 healthcare professionals across
all 50 states, eClinicalWorks has been awarded multiple top industry honors
including being named to the Inc. 500 in 2008 and 2007, and prominently
placed in a report released by IDC company Health Industry Insights, titled
Healthcare Provider Industry Short List: Ambulatory Electronic Health
Records and Electronic Medical Records. Based in Westborough, Mass.,
eClinicalWorks has additional offices in New York City, Pleasanton, Calif.,
and Alpharetta, Ga. More information on eClinicalWorks can be found at
www.eclinicalworks.com or by calling 866-888-MYCW.
About Healthwise
Healthwise is a nonprofit organization with a mission to help people make
better health decisions. Nearly 120 million times a year, people turn to
Healthwise information to learn how to do more for themselves, ask for the
care they need, and say "no" to the care they don't need. Healthwise
partners with health plans, hospitals, disease management companies, and
health Web sites to provide up-to-date, evidence-based information to the
people they serve. To learn more about the Healthwise Information Therapy
(Ix®) Solution, visit www.healthwise.org or call 1.800.706.9646.
© 2009, Healthwise, Incorporated.
Healthwise, Healthwise for every health decision, and the Healthwise logo
are trademarks of Healthwise.
Contact Information: Healthwise
Contact:
Brenda Foster
Phone: 208.331.6963
E-mail:
eClinicalWorks
Contact:
Heather Caouette
Phone: 508.836.2700, ext 203
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