Murray, Ky.-based Murray-Calloway County Hospital is transitioning to a new Oracle Health EHR.
Here are five things to know, according to a May 29 Murray Ledger & Times article:
1. Forty-six days into the implementation, hospital staff has identified the biggest “risk areas” of the EHR and Oracle Health “physician experience consultants” will be visiting different departments of the facility in the next month to address those problems, CIO Aaron Rucker said at a May 28 Murray-Calloway County Hospital Board of Trustees meeting.
2. The hospital has completed the “stabilization” phase of the EHR transition and plans to complete “analyzation” before moving into “optimization,” Mr. Rucker said. “There’s lots of opportunity for us to improve the system, and I think that’s part of this next phase, the optimization phase: How can we leverage Oracle to make sure that we’re getting the most out of the system and that we’re building good processes around that?” he said.
3. Benefits of the new EHR include having unified patient records across the organization, as well as the platform’s clinical decision support tools and data dashboards, said Jeff Eye, DNP, vice president of patient care services at Murray-Calloway County Hospital.
4. Hospital clinics have been struggling with the change, with ambulatory clinical workflows a challenge, while the surgery and emergency departments are handling it well as they had been on older EHRs, Dr. Eye said.
5. Hospital CEO Reba Celsor, RN, said it’s too early to call the project a success. “I don’t know that we’re pleased, but Aaron is working really hard, along with the rest of the team, to drive accountability on (Oracle’s) part,” she said. “Because sometimes companies overpromise and underdeliver, and there’s a little feeling of that, so we’re working to make sure we’re holding them accountable to the agreement.”
