As the head of an addiction treatment center, your goal is to help as many patients as possible. You want them to get physically and mentally healthy via inpatient or outpatient treatment. And you also want to be able to keep track of them in case they have a relapse.
Alerts When They Are Out of the Area
What you would really like is an alert about their medical condition when they end up at a treatment center or hospital outside of your area. For that to start happening, you need to consider the use of electronic medical records software. Use of this software has had a positive effect on patient care since its inception.
Digitizing all of your health records into electronic medical records software is a huge benefit to both the staff and patients. First, it allows medical representatives to easily review someone’s information. Additional medical facilities can add information if they have access.
Second, it gives your staff an opportunity to review what worked and what didn’t if a patient returns with a relapse. Rather than write shorthand on paper records, doctors and therapists can add recommendations and notes as to why one treatment worked and another didn’t with this particular patient.
Getting the Right Medical Records Software
There is a caveat to this type of software: It’s not a “one size fits all” package. While one application may have the recordkeeping tools you need, it might not have the right reporting functionality. Or, the reporting can be spot on but information security doesn’t adhere to your state’s regulations.
In order to find the right electronic medical records software for your addiction treatment center, send out an electronic health records request for proposal (EHE RFP) template to select vendors. By populating it with the information your desire, the vendor will return the template with their services, reporting abilities, and security. In turn, you’ll be able to determine the right software to use.
