Ambulatory EHR Optimization for Private Practice vs Health Systems

Host: Patty Lavely, CIO Consultant and Co-chair, CHIME Opioid Task Force

Guest: Mike Burger, Senior Consultant, Point-of-Care Partners

What you’ll learn about:

• High level overview of the ambulatory EHR landscape.
• If the standard software on the market today provides “opioid tools” to help providers manage patients that are taking opioids or are high risk for addiction/overdose.-
• Third-party software to improve the capabilities including PDMP integration.
• How it all fits (or doesn’t) within the clinical workflows in the office.
• If EHRs are typically tied into community services to support patients with SUD.
• Technology differences between independent physician practices vs those owned by health systems/hospitals, and if there’s a difference in how they’re able to determine the patients at risk.
• Whether, like hospitals, physician practices have come a long way with reducing opioid prescriptions; and if the software has functionality to support changing ordering practices.
• The percentage of physician practices contributing data and viewing data via an HIE (in Mike’s experience).