CHANTILLY, Va., May 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Medicomp Systems announced today that its flagship product, MEDCIN, will support standards for medical reference terminology recently announced by HHS. Increasing focus on standards requires healthcare IT vendors to build EMR systems that meet requirements for data aggregation and analysis, and which can also be used by clinicians at the point of care.
HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson says standards announced last week “will allow for easy transmission, exchange, collation, and aggregation of electronic records from multiple sources.” System vendors must meet those needs and must also address the needs of the clinical user.
“Building systems which physicians will use is extremely difficult, as many failed EMR companies have found,” says Peter Goltra, CEO of Medicomp. “Most companies using MEDCIN to build point-of-care applications first attempted to build systems based solely on reference terminologies and discovered they could not do it.”
MEDCIN is now used by more than 35,000 physicians because, as the following comments indicate, it addresses the fast pace and complexity of the clinical encounter.
“A clinician’s time is the single most valuable, non-renewable resource in healthcare. Wasting a provider’s time by requiring them to deal directly with terminology standards while treating patients is unacceptable. The beauty of MEDCIN is that it is structured and presented the way clinicians think so that it accommodates, rather than interrupts, the clinical thought process,” states Edmund Herrold, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Weill Medical College, Cornell University.
“Most EMRs require practitioners to ‘think’ like a computer. MEDCIN ‘thinks’ like a practitioner. It has the intuitive flow and feel of a dictated note as well as that of the office visit itself,” says Dr. Jay Anders of Christie Clinic in Champaign, Illinois.
“If you are looking for an EMR engine that improves documentation, is user friendly, reduces operating costs, all without sacrificing physician productivity, then MEDCIN is clearly the choice,” states Dr. Eugene M. Pascarella, President of Integrated Physician Systems.
MEDCIN can be seen at the TEPR conference in Ft. Lauderdale this week and at the booths of eight EMR vendors who will also be exhibiting at TEPR.
Medicomp Systems
CONTACT: David Lareau of Medicomp Systems, Inc., +1-703-803-8080, orinfo@medicomp.com
Web site: http://www.medicomp.com/
