Regional Extension Center Support

Care Communications is ready to support a regional extension center (REC) and its physician practices with a variety of services and delivery modalities. 

CARE can help RECs and their physician clients:

• Redesign workflow to optimize EHR technology.
• Select and implement an EHR that meets practice needs.
• Lead people constructively through change.
• Achieve and track progress toward meaningful use.
• Reach interoperability with health information exchanges.

Our seasoned health information management (HIM) and information technology (IT) experts provide EHR implementation services in a variety of modalities including:

• Remote and onsite consulting
• Workshops and individualized coaching
• Meaningful use monitoring software
• Troubleshooting and ongoing support

CARE provides a number of additional EHR implementation services as well, including:

• Document management support to address records that arrive at the practice in paper form.
• Temporary staffing to pre-populate the EHR or minimize backlogs or wait times during implementation.
• Policy and procedure development that complies with federal and state laws and regulations.
• Down time and business continuity planning and testing.
• Personal Health Record (PHR) strategies, tools, policies and procedures.
• Education and training (privacy, security, EHR implementation, computer-assisted coding, ICD-10, change and transition management and leadership).  
• Remote or onsite coaching, consulting and troubleshooting related to the technical aspects of EHR implementation.
• Master patient index assessment and cleanup.

If you would like to speak with someone about your needs and obtain more information, please use the “Contact Now” link at the bottom of this page.