EHRs: How To Get From The Core 4 To The New 9

The first electronic health records (EHRs) date back to the 1960s. And for many years, our early OPEN MINDS surveys of provider organization executives found that most organizations only implemented one function—billing (see How Do You Compare On Tech Spending & Adoption?). Roll forward a decade, EHR optimization was built around four functions—clinical, billing, scheduling, and reporting. But as we move to a health and human service landscape driven by integrated models and value-based reimbursement, the baseline for EHR functionality is more broad.

The future functionality of an EHR was the focus of a discussion between Matthew . . .