Case Analysis: Multispecialty Group Practice Emr
Case Analysis: Multispecialty Group Practice EMR
The United Cerebral Palsy of Greater Birmingham (UCPGB) has recently moved to a new LINCPoint facility and identified the relocation as an opportune time to develop an electronic medical record keeping system. The UCPGB is a not-for-profit organization that provides various clinical health services to patients that have been diagnosed with Cerebral Palsy within the population of Birmingham, Alabama and reaches to the ten surrounding counties. The UCPGB is funded by a mixture of private and public funding, with most of its funding coming from the community through a parent organization, The United Way of Central Alabama. It is committed to providing a wide variety of services on site that address the complete health needs of its patients. The new facility has been designed with consideration of the patients’ limited mobility, its square footage totals 42,000 with 8,000 set aside for service delivery. The move to this location has prioritized the need for an electronic medical record to maximize efficiency and improve health care delivery. UCPGB provides Family Medicine, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Exercise and Physical Therapy, Speech Language Pathology, Occupational Therapy, Optometry, and Dental Medicine. Due to the medical condition of these patients, most if not all patients utilize every service available and are followed by a multitude of providers. Each specialty is run in a different way; for example many of the therapy sessions are conducted in a group setting where one provider is working with multiple patients at one time and patients are often fast tracked to specialties. The center has many full time providers, nurses, therapist, dentists and auxiliary staff. It also has volunteer faculty for many of the specialties and allows residents to rotate for training purposes. Due to the nature of addressing the needs of the complete patient, many departments have special processes and
The United Cerebral Palsy of Greater Birmingham (UCPGB) has recently moved to a new LINCPoint facility and identified the relocation as an opportune time to develop an electronic medical record keeping system. The UCPGB is a not-for-profit organization that provides various clinical health services to patients that have been diagnosed with Cerebral Palsy within the population of Birmingham, Alabama and reaches to the ten surrounding counties. The UCPGB is funded by a mixture of private and public funding, with most of its funding coming from the community through a parent organization, The United Way of Central Alabama. It is committed to providing a wide variety of services on site that address the complete health needs of its patients. The new facility has been designed with consideration of the patients’ limited mobility, its square footage totals 42,000 with 8,000 set aside for service delivery. The move to this location has prioritized the need for an electronic medical record to maximize efficiency and improve health care delivery. UCPGB provides Family Medicine, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Exercise and Physical Therapy, Speech Language Pathology, Occupational Therapy, Optometry, and Dental Medicine. Due to the medical condition of these patients, most if not all patients utilize every service available and are followed by a multitude of providers. Each specialty is run in a different way; for example many of the therapy sessions are conducted in a group setting where one provider is working with multiple patients at one time and patients are often fast tracked to specialties. The center has many full time providers, nurses, therapist, dentists and auxiliary staff. It also has volunteer faculty for many of the specialties and allows residents to rotate for training purposes. Due to the nature of addressing the needs of the complete patient, many departments have special processes and