PRLog ? EMRs and other information technology can improve communication and patient safety if fully implemented in hospitals and other healthcare facilities. For example, EMRs can help reduce medication errors, avoid the need to repeat diagnostic testing, and improve continuity of care across the healthcare system. Technology such as EMR scanning has also helped to improve the productivity
of healthcare practises, whilst also complying with HIPAA laws. More than 800,000 participating healthcare providers in over 40 countries and throughout the US impaneled in the MHI globally integrated health delivery system® will have appropriate access to secure, complete clinical information that is HIPAA and HITECH compliant wherever they need it. Last month, Practice Fusion debuted a prototype of its native iOS mobile application for the iPhone at the Health 2.0 conference in San Francisco. Practice Fusion currently has iPhone and Android applications in private beta testing. When the stable release comes out, the mobile and healthcare solutions could provide MHI nurse case managers, Care Navigators? and medical advisers a lightweight and secure way to stay connected to our global network of providers and other medical advisers on the go. MHI’s network includes over 6,000 pre-screened and inspected hospitals, more than 4,300 of which are in the US, along with over 750,000 vetted physicians, surgery centers, dialysis centers, physical therapy and rehab centers, labs, imaging and hearing centers, substance abuse and mental health facilities, and more than 65,000 ancillary facilities. Records can be moved inbound and outbound enabling us to move more patients’ health information faster between treating providers and our medical management teams. MHI operates several offices worldwide where case managers, regional medical directors, specialty medical advisors and certified Care Navigators? work to operate a health travel and medical tourism logistics hub, conduct patient safety reviews and use medical records to conduct extended outcomes measurements for health travel and medical tourism patients seeking care in a location other than their home town. MHI’s core business function is to provide employees of self-funded / self-insured companies and individual consumer members the opportunity to access clinically coordinated health and wellness services. High-quality healthcare providers who are impaneled in its seamless, globally integrated health delivery system® have been pre-screened, reviewed and inspected before they are permitted to provide services in the US and abroad at negotiated prices to MHI clients. Mercury Healthcare International provides cost containment, disease management, global case management, foreign medical records review and claims audits, and coordinates routine, urgent, emergent, high-cost elective surgical care, executive physicals and emergency medical assistance and evacuation/repatriation for its self-funded employer clients with domestic, expatriate and traveling employees. The company also offers health travel and medical tourism facilitation to individual consumers for services not covered by their health insurance such as experimental, investigational and cosmetic services, or medically necessary services not covered by a health plan that have been deemed pre-existing and excluded from coverage. MHI is an industry leader in medical tourism continuity of care best practices. The company operates the only known global medical implant registry to record and track implants of all types and brands which are placed in medical tourism patients. MHI uses innovative and well-developed outcomes measurement tools originally developed by Rand Corporation to monitor, measure and report functional, clinical and patient satisfaction outcomes over a 36-month event horizon and to document continuity of care. We’ve not identified any other medical tourism company that has even begun to apply managed care best practices and principles of patient-centered care to their operational work flows. Most likely this is because it is extremely rare that medical tourism firms in the US and Canada are operated by individuals with any medical or insurance industry background or travel experience. Most operate as healthcare marketing companies that simply promote hospitals and providers who pay them commissions for patient referrals. MHI’s strong acumen in the areas of managed care, case management, predictive modeling, self-funded employee health and wellness benefits, travel logistics and sophisticated infrastructure enable it to offer domestic and international health travel options for employer groups of any size. “The powerful and comprehensive Practice Fusion EMR system will make our globally integrated patient-centered care operations flow more efficiently and lower the cost to provide care and case management services,? says Maria K. Todd, MHA PhD, CEO and Founder of the Mercury Healthcare Companies. “We love the fact that we can also share the full Practice Fusion EMR solution with our healthcare providers who have not yet implemented an EMR so they can get their own system absolutely free of charge. It made me grin ear-to-ear to learn that our system is more robust than the one my own primary care concierge physician just implemented costing several thousands of dollars. Ryan Howard and his Practice Fusion team are to be commended for their innovative leadership in health information technology.” Providers who wish to learn more about how they can obtain Practice Fusion’s EMR system absolutely free through MHI should visit our website’s provider relations section (http://mercury-healthcare.com/prov-rel/freebies/100-free …) for additional details and a no-obligation referral.