An EHR Solution Designed with Doctors in Mind

Doug Cusick, president and chief executive officer, TransformativeMed

Electronic health records (EHR) have changed the way the healthcare industry works. In the 10 years since then-president Barack Obama signed a law to accelerate digitization of health records, hospital EHR adoption has increased from 9 percent to 96 percent, according to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC). Despite high adoption rates, many doctors and hospitals report major problems with the systems.

“Electronic medical records are necessary, but many providers have a love-hate relationship — at times, a hate-hate relationship — with them because of the way they impede workflows,” says Doug Cusick, president and CEO of TransformativeMed, a clinical workflow solution that can be embedded into the Cerner Millennium EHR platform. “[EHRs] can slow productivity and increase stress and burnout rates. But it really doesn’t have to be that way.”

Founded in 2011 by a surgeon and a software engineer at the University of Washington Medical Center, TransformativeMed aims to optimize the EHR with workflow-integrated apps and a specialty-specific user interface that extends EHR functionality to fit clinical processes.

TransformativeMed’s Core Workflow Manager — a desktop and mobile app geared toward streamlining patient care — allows doctors and clinicians to schedule multidisciplinary rounds, simplify patient handoffs, and make timely discharges. With Core Workflow apps, service lines can customize their experience so relevant clinical information is quickly accessible and care team collaboration is enhanced.

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