Catholic Health Initiatives finds PatientLink to be three times faster than manual data entry

In February 2013, Ambulatory Electronic Health Record (AEHR) implementations and go-lives were paused to improve the system and its efficiencies. The team worked on a variety of issues with the goal of improving performance. During the pause, PatientLink, an abstraction software/hardware system, was piloted at Family Physician Associates in Shelbyville, Ky. Abstraction is the process…

OKC company streamlines process of digitizing medical records

Oklahoma City-based PatientLink® says it has a way to save thousands of health care providers hours of uploading patient data into electronic systems. The Oklahoman reports Debi Willis, founder of PatientLink®, developed a patented software that, combined with a scanner, can pull data from a two-sided customizable patient questionnaire. The software will connect to some of…

Innovation streamlines process for digitizing medical records

With health care reform, and greater federal reporting requirements, the paper-to-digital challenge is even more onerous, Willis said. But with PatientLink, it takes less than 10 seconds to import data, completely and accurately, into an EMR, she said, while patients can swiftly answer the questions independently in doctors’ waiting rooms. Some PatientLink customers choose to…