Greater Baltimore Medical Center Partners with eClinicalWorks for ACO Initiative
One of the Largest Community Hospitals in the Mid-Atlantic Selects eClinicalWorks Care Coordination Portal and eClinicalWorks Community Analytics
WESTBOROUGH, Mass.—February 27, 2012—eClinicalWorks®, a market leader in ambulatory clinical systems, today announces that Greater Baltimore Medical Center (GBMC), one of the largest community hospitals in the mid-Atlantic, has expanded its relationship with the company to include eClinicalWorks Care Coordination Portal and eClinicalWorks Community Analytics. This will aid GBMC in meeting its objectives as an Accountable Care Organization (ACO), coordinating care across the continuum as well as evaluating population health and quality improvement activities.
This expansion will additionally assist GBMC in working with its practices in becoming National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA)-recognized Patient-Centered Medical Homes (PCMH). Both ACO and PCMH delivery models coordinate care between patients and members of the healthcare team with the goal being to help strengthen the physician-patient relationship, leading to better care and reduced avoidable costs over time.
“Greater Baltimore Medical Center strives to bring a seamless experience to our patients,” said Tressa Springmann, vice president and chief information officer of Greater Baltimore Medical Center. “This includes collaborating across all care settings in order to view our patients holistically. eClinicalWorks has been a great partner in helping us standardize how practices work and we look forward to working with the company in our ACO effort.”
eClinicalWorks Care Coordination Portal is designed to provide visibility into a patient’s care across all settings, facilitate smooth transitions of care, engage patients and providers in preventative care, improve outcomes among populations and reduce costs. eClinicalWorks Community Analytics delivers reporting, alerting and messaging capabilities necessary to manage population health. Reports can be run at the community level to determine and monitor adherence of clinical process and outcomes, for including medication recalls and chronic disease management. Both solutions work together for a collaborative care framework.
“The role of the EHR is increasingly expanding beyond the walls of a practice,” said Girish Kumar Navani, CEO and co-founder of eClinicalWorks. “Our recent additions of the eClinicalWorks Care Coordination Portal and eClinicalWorks Community Analytics build on the EHR and communications tools that we already have been delivering, and help our customers to effectively undertake comprehensive care delivery. We look forward to working with GBMC in this initiative.”
In August 2010, it was announced that GBMC had selected eClinicalWorks unified electronic medical records (EMR) and practice management (PM) for its employed physician group that is comprised of more than 100 employed physicians located across 40 practices. The multi-specialty group has also selected implemented eClinicalWorks Electronic Health eXchange (eEHX®), eClinicalWorks Patient Portal, eClinicalWorks P2P and Enterprise Business Optimizer (eBO) to further optimize patient care. This announcement expands on this relationship.
About GBMC
GBMC HealthCare includes Greater Baltimore Medical Center, a 281 bed acute care not-for-profit hospital which opened in 1965 and provides Health, Healing and Hope; Greater Baltimore Medical Associates, a group of more than 40 multi-specialty physician practices on the hospital’s Towson campus and locations across the region; Greater Baltimore Health Alliance, an alliance of GBMC-employed and private practicing physician partners; Gilchrist Hospice Care, Maryland’s largest hospice organization offering care in-home as well as in a 34-bed inpatient center on the GBMC Towson campus and at a 10-bed inpatient center in Howard County; and the GBMC Foundation, which raises funds to support the organization’s mission. For more information, visit www.gbmc.org.
About eClinicalWorks
eClinicalWorks® is a privately held leader in the ambulatory clinical systems market. The company’s comprehensive electronic health records and practice management solution is proven for every market segment: large practice groups, including Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative (MAeHC) and the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, as well as medium, small and solo practices regardless of specialty. The company enjoys high profitability with a five-year compounded growth rate of more than 100 percent year-to-year. With an established customer base of more than 180,000 providers and 370,000 healthcare professionals across all 50 states, eClinicalWorks has been awarded multiple top industry honors including being named to the Inc. 5000 for the past five consecutive years. Based in Westborough, Mass., eClinicalWorks has additional offices in New York City, Pleasanton, Calif. and Alpharetta, Ga. More information on eClinicalWorks can be found at www.eclinicalworks.com or by calling 866-888-6929.
