Key EHR features for healthcare
organizations & specialized practices

Key EHR features for healthcare organizations & specialized practices

February 27, 2024

General EHR features

The majority of EHR systems include similar basic features useful for most clinicians regardless of their medical practice specialties.

General EHR features

The primary function of electronic health record systems is to manage patient data. While EMR software often serves as a digital version of the paper chart, EHR doesn’t solely contain doctor’s notes but also provides customizable templates and e-forms for faster charting and more accurate record-keeping. EHRs allow clinicians to acquire, store, and share demographic details essential for public health improvement and other health-related information.

  • Complete patient medical history
  • Immunization tracker
  • Medical images
  • Determinants of health tracker
  • Radiology and lab results

The majority of EHRs have patient management features that automate administrative tasks like appointment scheduling, giving medical professionals more time to focus on clinical tasks and empowering patients to proactively manage their health.

  • Appointment and referral scheduler
  • Follow-up reminders
  • Patient portals

Depending on the country of operation, a medical organization’s EHR should align with the Meaningful Use criteria, GDPR and HIPAA regulations, and international healthcare software security guidelines for the protection of patients’ health information as well as data governance guidelines.

  • Multi-factor authentication
  • Data encryption
  • Different levels of distributed access control
  • Secure data transfer channels and protocols, and more

Advanced EHR solutions offer medical data analytic capabilities that enable healthcare providers to make evidence-based diagnoses, personalize treatment plans, assess the organization’s productivity, and discover points for patient care improvement.

  • Symptomatic pattern identification
  • Treatment effectiveness assessment
  • Health condition forecasting
  • Department productivity evaluation

Some electronic health record software solutions have capabilities beyond patient record keeping and aid healthcare personnel in managing clinics’ and even pharmacies’ daily routines like task completion reporting, order entry, prescription verification and validation, and financial management.

  • Comprehensive dashboards with clinical data
  • Practice management module
  • Task trackers and reminders
  • Insurance information storage

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Specialized EHR features

EHR systems for particular medical specialties typically have distinct capabilities and gather additional patient information.

Practice- specific EHRs are useful to
Cardiologists
Oncologists
Chiropractics
Geriatricians
Nutritionists
Obstetrics/ Gynecologists (OBGYNs)
Pediatricians
Nurses
Surgery healthcare facilities
Emergency departments
Medical genetic clinics
Rehabilitation centers
Long-term care facilities
Psychiatry & behavioral health clinics
Dental clinics

Specialty documentation templates

Each healthcare provider has to make notes during a patient examination, diagnostics, treatment planning, and referrals. Filling out pre-made templates saves time and effort compared to writing notes from scratch and helps avoid typos or mistakes due to inattentiveness or oversight. Patients also request multiple forms from healthcare organizations: physical wellness assessment for schools, vaccination certificates, proof of special needs, etc. Generating such documentation automatically with data available in EHR is faster and easier than creating them anew every time.

  • Patient examination procedure guidelines
  • SOAP notes (The Subjective, Objective, Assessment, and Plan notes)
  • Official documentation templates
  • Brief Mental Status Examination (MSE) template
  • ICD-10 (International Classification of Diseases), ICD-9, CPT (The Current Procedural Terminology) specialty codes suggestions

Specialized charting

For more informed clinical decision-making, medical professionals must fully understand the dynamics of changes in their patients’ conditions. To do that, clinicians generate charts based on the metrics stored in the EHR and compare them to the official norms and standards.

  • Growth and developmental charting
  • Newborn screening data
  • Periodontal charting
  • Glucose levels charting

Specialized treatment plans

Patients with chronic conditions, disabilities, developmental abnormalities, or history of mental illnesses or substance abuse require treatment protocols that vary significantly from average cases. EHRs can help healthcare professionals suggest more accurate and personalized treatment while documenting every step of the process for future analysis and faster medication adjustments.

  • E-prescribing of controlled substances (EPCS)
  • Special care needs management
  • Drug interaction alerts
  • Rare condition knowledge base

EHR modules powered by advanced tech

Innovative healthcare systems allow medical professionals to elevate the quality of care and its accessibility. EHR solutions enhanced with advanced technologies automate note-taking and patient management to minimize the amount of time and effort clinicians have to spend on administrative tasks.

Voice recognition
Simplify EHR use with embedded voice recognition tools, so that authorized personnel can vocally unlock the system and give it commands.
Automatic note-taking
Enable clinicians to put patient information into the system faster with their natural speech and focus more on the patient than administrative tasks.
Chatbots & voice assistants
Provide EHR users with a digital assistant to help them find information faster, assist with appointment scheduling, or answer some standard frequently asked questions.
Integration with medical devices
Streamline, secure, and speed up medical data acquisition from remote patient monitoring (RPM) devices and personal gadgets by connecting them directly with the EHR system.

Specialized EHR systems & modules we’ve built

We have wide experience in delivering EHR systems or separate modules with special features that boost healthcare organizations’ workflows.

Oncology treatment platform

1,000

therapy orders created monthly

We created an EHR-connected platform that contains a vast collection of up-to-date medical research and aids medical professionals in diagnostics, quick treatment order creation, and generating reports on recommended therapies.

Telemedicine-ready EHR system

HIPAA, ONC, CEHRT, & Section 508

certified solution

We delivered a unique EHR system with capabilities that optimized the input of patient records and facilitated doctor-patient communication enabled by speech recognition, smartpen, clinical text analysis, NLP, and online medical conferencing tools.

An RPM and mobile telehealth suite

3x

faster case creation

Our team released a suite of a mobile app and a web-based admin portal for nurses in rural and underserved areas in the US to facilitate primary case creation for sexual assault victims. The solution improves the accuracy of the examination, streamlines data input into the EHR, and ensures the maximum comfort of patients.

Telehealth suite for psychiatric assessment

24/7

service availability

We delivered a HIPAA-compliant comprehensive telepsychiatry solution for remote medical case processing, patient data management, communication between different hospitals, remote patient assessment, treatment recommendations, and facility placement coordination.

Oncology treatment platform

1,000

therapy orders created monthly

We created an EHR-connected platform that contains a vast collection of up-to-date medical research and aids medical professionals in diagnostics, quick treatment order creation, and generating reports on recommended therapies.

Telemedicine-ready EHR system

HIPAA, ONC, CEHRT, & Section 508

certified solution

We delivered a unique EHR system with capabilities that optimized the input of patient records and facilitated doctor-patient communication enabled by speech recognition, smartpen, clinical text analysis, NLP, and online medical conferencing tools.

An RPM and mobile telehealth suite

3x

faster case creation

Our team released a suite of a mobile app and a web-based admin portal for nurses in rural and underserved areas in the US to facilitate primary case creation for sexual assault victims. The solution improves the accuracy of the examination, streamlines data input into the EHR, and ensures the maximum comfort of patients.

Telehealth suite for psychiatric assessment

24/7

service availability

We delivered a HIPAA-compliant comprehensive telepsychiatry solution for remote medical case processing, patient data management, communication between different hospitals, remote patient assessment, treatment recommendations, and facility placement coordination.

Oncology treatment platform

1,000

therapy orders created monthly

We created an EHR-connected platform that contains a vast collection of up-to-date medical research and aids medical professionals in diagnostics, quick treatment order creation, and generating reports on recommended therapies.

Telemedicine-ready EHR system

HIPAA, ONC, CEHRT, & Section 508

certified solution

We delivered a unique EHR system with capabilities that optimized the input of patient records and facilitated doctor-patient communication enabled by speech recognition, smartpen, clinical text analysis, NLP, and online medical conferencing tools.

An RPM and mobile telehealth suite

3x

faster case creation

Our team released a suite of a mobile app and a web-based admin portal for nurses in rural and underserved areas in the US to facilitate primary case creation for sexual assault victims. The solution improves the accuracy of the examination, streamlines data input into the EHR, and ensures the maximum comfort of patients.

Telehealth suite for psychiatric assessment

24/7

service availability

We delivered a HIPAA-compliant comprehensive telepsychiatry solution for remote medical case processing, patient data management, communication between different hospitals, remote patient assessment, treatment recommendations, and facility placement coordination.

Comparison of open-source, proprietary & custom EHR

Different EHR software have distinct sets of capabilities and requirements. Providers need to choose a system with the key features that cover their organization’s needs and fit within their connectivity, infrastructure, and budget requirements.

Proprietary out-of-the-box EHRs

Custom EHRs

Features
Features

Only basic features by default Unique functionality must be added by developers

A wide range of pre-installed features The variety of add-ons depends on the particular vendor and the product itself

Feature set is tailored to a particular organization’s workflows

Interface
Interface

Very simplistic, often outdated interface

More complex interface

Custom interface

Source code modifications
Source code modifications

It’s possible to modify the source code

The solution’s source code cannot be altered

The source code can be changed by developers per the client’s request

Cost
Cost

Free or significantly cheaper than its counterparts

Upfront costs and regular license fees vary depending on the EHR’s provider and system capabilities

Upfront costs are usually higher than for its counterparts

Security
Security

The community is in charge of the EHR’s security

The vendor is in charge of the EHR’s security and backups

The IT partner or the organization itself is in charge of the system’s security and backups

Compliance
Compliance

Compliance varies for every system

Compliance with major regulatory standards, including HIPAA, and ONC

Compliance with major regulatory standards, including HIPAA and ONC

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How to choose an EHR solution

Choosing from many EHR solutions available on the market can be challenging, especially since many of them have pre-defined feature sets that look similar but cost differently. This is what you should take into account when deciding on the desired functionality for your EHR:

  • The opinion of the medical professionals who are going to be primary users of the system
  • Your healthcare organization’s workflows and the ways EHR can support them
  • Your existing IT infrastructure technical capacity and limitations
  • EHR capabilities your organization must have to receive Meaningful Use reimbursement
We can help you choose a plug-and-play commercial EHROur experts can help you build a customized and affordable open-source EHROur experts can build a uniquely tailored custom solution to fit your practiceOur integration team can help you get more value from your EHR with add-ons and fine-tuningDoes your organizationalready use an EHR/EMR software?Will general out-of-the box solution's functionality be enough?Does it cover all your requirements?Can you afford paying a subscription fee to use an out-of-the box EHR?Can you afford building
a custom EHR?Do you require extensive customizations?Would you like to upgrade it with additional modules?YesNoYesYesNoNoYesYesNoNoYesYesNo

Our EHR implementation services

Our team helps healthcare providers choose, implement, and efficiently use an EHR system with the most fitting functionality.

Consulting

Our consultants can assess a particular healthcare organization’s needs, identify their main requirements, and outline business priorities to define the EHR solution's core functionality and determine the implementation project’s cost.

Implementation

We develop and install EMR and EHR software with custom features, as well as carry out implementation and customization of the selected out-of-the-box EHR systems. Our experts create a detailed project plan, implement all the necessary functionality, configure the system, and redesign current workflows if needed. We can also enhance healthcare providers’ systems of choice with advanced modules for better clinical decision support.

Integration & data migration

We facilitate interoperability among electronic health record systems and other health information technology tools to improve their effectiveness. We also migrate healthcare data to the EHR from paper records, legacy systems, or other healthcare software, from an on-premise to a cloud-based system, and from EHRs or EMRs made by other vendors.

Monitoring & support

We continuously monitor and evaluate the EHR system's performance, make adjustments to enhance its productivity, tune it to the current quality standards and Meaningful Use regulations, and solve any anticipated issues.

Support healthcare processes with the right EHR features

Feature-packing your EHR is not always the best option. Based on user feedback, too many features that don’t contribute to a medical organization’s everyday workflow negatively impact medical professionals’ wellbeing and can lead to burnout. Therefore, it is vital to choose a combination of capabilities that flawlessly fit into your personnel’s daily routines and alleviate their workloads instead of adding more tasks. If selecting an essential EHR feature set for your organization seems overwhelming, our experts are always ready to help. We will analyze your organization’s clinical and administrative processes, suggest the most fitting options, and carry out the implementation so you can focus on boosting your patients’ health and growing profits.

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