Connecting Communities of Healthcare Practices through IT

I hope you all saw our announcement yesterday of Dell’s Electronic Medical Records (EMR) solution for hospital-affiliated physician practices. [See The Wall Street Journal’s Health Blog]

Dell’s EMR solution is built on a concept starting a digital transformation of healthcare by connecting existing ‘Communities of Practice’.  The EMR system is sponsored by hospitals for their affiliated physicians and is designed to first make it affordable and practical for many more physician practices to transition from paper to electronic records. The EMR solution will also connect the community of physicians and their sponsoring hospitals so that they can harness the power of electronic patient information to improve and coordinate care, help reduce costs and streamline administration across their local healthcare system.

Working together, Dell and sponsoring hospitals are working to eliminate the long-standing barriers to widespread EMR adoption by small and medium medical practices: the cost and complexity of deploying the systems and incompatibility with other provider systems.

Hospitals and Affiliated Physicians can learn more about Dell’s Affiliated Physicians EMR solution at www.dell.com/EMRNow.