How Hurley Medical Center Expanded Services to Increase Access to Care
Hospital Stats
The Situation
After expanding its EMR system through Epic’s Community Connect, Michigan’s Hurley Medical Center began receiving reports that its clinics were overwhelmed. Employees faced confusion and inefficiencies as they struggled to manage the large volumes of incoming faxes that needed to be received, scanned, and imported. By partnering with Extract Systems powered by Vyne Medical, the Level 1 Trauma Center, streamlined workflows, improved documentation accuracy, and accelerated time
to the EMR for faxed documents.
Products Used
The Results
- 96% decrease in the time required to populate data from incoming documents into the EMR system
- 57% reduction in printing led to a significant decline in paper usage
- 60% decrease in the use of “other” as a category for document type
- 62% reduction in available document types available for selection
- 133% increase in documents processed per hour1
1Data and statistical results aforementioned in this piece are derived from a case study conducted in 2017 with Hurley Medical Center using certain features present in Extract Systems’ HealthyData solution.
