Running a Rural Hospital?

You run a hospital to serve your community.  Despite the small number of inpatient beds you may have, you still face many of the same problems and issues as any larger hospital.  Perhaps even more acutely, given the financial challenges many community and rural hospitals face in today’s healthcare landscape. 

Like any large hospital, you still need to comply with government regulations, you still are subject to audits to maintain accreditation, you have a strong desire to mitigate legal exposure, and you face staffing challenges and competition for physicians and coders.  Moreover, you face tougher challenges attracting and retaining specialists, which can increase the services you offer and the fees you can bill.  All of these issues center on the accessibility, accuracy, and completeness of your medical records.  

It’s clear you need to do more than just scan, store, and retrieve patient medical records.  Those solutions are cheap, but they don’t optimize your medical records workflow, and they don’t gain you the benefits you need to solve your legal EHR issues. 

A legal EHR solution is within your reach. 
At eWebHealth, we partner with community-based and rural hospitals to provide automation of your medical records workflow that allows you all the benefits of a scan, store, retrieve option, but goes much further – to optimize the workflow between physicians, coders, and the HIM department that enables you achieve a legal electronic health record that is accurate, complete, and defensible – and accessible.  By offering remote and simultaneous access to records, you can attract more physicians and coders to your facility.  By creating these efficiencies, hospitals are also able to bill faster, reducing A/R days so they can get paid in a more timely manner. 

With a pricing structure affordable to small community-based and rural hospitals,  our software-as-a-service model allows for monthly fee billings, never demanding millions in up front costs generally associated with hardware, license fees and implementation costs of installed EHR systems.  There’s no need for you to hire additional IT staff.  The implementation can happen in months instead of years.  Training is truly easy – physicians, coders, and medical records staff typically learn to use eWebHealth applications in minutes or hours instead of days or weeks.  And oftentimes, the cost savings can justify the expenditure.  In fact, we find that hospitals can see a return on their investment in as little as 18 months.

Contact us today to speak with us about how you can take the next steps to achieving an affordable legal EHR.

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