A Multi-Specialty EHR Workflow System: 10 Questions For Barry Hayut, Xcite Health

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Friday, 24 October 2014 11:10

Just in time for the Medical Group Management Association Annual Conference in Las Vegas, here is one of my increasingly infamous 10 question in-the-weeds interviews! This time about a remarkable multi-specialty EHR workflow system. It used to be named EncounterPRO, under which name it won the first three ambulatory EHR HIMSS Davies Awards. This EHR workflow system is now called XciteEHR and my interview is with Barry Hayut, of Xcite Health. By the way, Xcite is hosting a free webinar, featuring me! I'll talk about the difference between traditional EHRs and EHR workflow systems on November 5th at 12 Noon EST. Since I'm co-presenting with a pediatrician, the workflows will be pediatric. However, since a workflow system can execute different workflows (which is sort of the point!) my portion of the webinar is relevant to any specialist who wants their own specialty workflows reflected in workflows of an EHR. (Current XciteEHR workflow definitions cover Pediatrics, Family Medicine, Internal Medicine and Obstetrics/Gynecology.)

As a side note, this is a special interview for me because I was involved with the early design and implementation of this particular EHR workflow system. I expect many MGMA attendees may remember EncounterPRO (originally developed by JMJ Technologies) and will find this interview of special interest. Creating and customizing EHR workflows for our customers, when I was EncounterPRO CMIO, really drove home the importance of true workflow technology at the point of care. Some of the older posts on this blog, EHR Workflow Management Systems, are still about EncounterPRO. (If some of the following links don't work, I probably haven't published them yet! By the end of MGMA14 they should all be live! Keep clicking!)

1. A Multi-Specialty EHR Workflow System: 10 Questions For Barry Hayut, Xcite Health
2. How did you end up in the primary care specialties EHR workflow system business?
3. Could you discuss Meaningful Use 2 and why it’s important to be MU2 certified?
4. Do you also sell a Practice Management system?
5. What's the difference between EHR workflow systems and mere EHR systems?
6. Would you share your workflow, writer, editor, publicist analogy?
7. What does a true EHR workflow system *do* for physicians?
8. Would you show us the XciteEHR Office View and explain its functions?
9. What physician specialty practice areas does the XciteEHR cover?
10. How will you educate the world about true EHR workflow systems?
11. Thoughts, Barry? About EHRs, workflow, and physician happiness?

Starting Sunday, I'll publish a series of blog posts about EHR workflow from my interview with Barry, and tweet his answers to my questions. On the MGMA conference #MGMA14 hashtag, so stay tuned! The very best way to make sure you don't miss any of this interview is to follow @XciteHealth and me (@wareFLO) on Twitter.

Follow @wareFLO Follow @XciteHealth P.S. By the way, Barry, congratulations on making the XciteEHR is a Complete MU2-certified EHR! You must be mighty proud of your certificate!

Barry, How Did You End Up In The EHR Workflow Business?

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Friday, 24 October 2014 11:09

I was the CEO of a company that owned and managed multiple radiology outpatient centers. We experienced first-hand the needs of the physicians, office staff and patients for software that enhances productivity.

When we saw the EncounterPRO EHR’s superior workflow engine, Office View, and configurability, we decided to adapt it and integrate it with our Practice Management system and patient portal for seamless integration, productivity and ease of use.

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1. A Multi-Specialty EHR Workflow System: 10 Questions For Barry Hayut, Xcite Health
2. How did you end up in the primary care specialties EHR workflow system business?
3. Could you discuss Meaningful Use 2 and why it’s important to be MU2 certified?
4. Do you also sell a Practice Management system?
5. What's the difference between EHR workflow systems and mere EHR systems?
6. Would you share your workflow, writer, editor, publicist analogy?
7. What does a true EHR workflow system *do* for physicians?
8. Would you show us the XciteEHR Office View and explain its functions?
9. What physician specialty practice areas does the XciteEHR cover?
10. How will you educate the world about true EHR workflow systems?
11. Thoughts, Barry? About EHRs, workflow, and physician happiness?

Barry, Do You Also Sell a Practice Management system?

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Friday, 24 October 2014 11:08

Yes, Xcite Health also has an integrated cloud-based Practice Management System with the EHR. It has scheduling, registration, billing, revenue cycle management, provider credentialing and vaccine inventory management. All of the billing codes such as CPT codes, ICD-9 codes, and in the near future, ICD-10 codes, flow seamlessly into the practice management system from the EHR so, as the physician finishes charting the patient encounter, the billing information is finished and sent to the payers, as well.

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1. A Multi-Specialty EHR Workflow System: 10 Questions For Barry Hayut, Xcite Health
2. How did you end up in the primary care specialties EHR workflow system business?
3. Could you discuss Meaningful Use 2 and why it’s important to be MU2 certified?
4. Do you also sell a Practice Management system?
5. What's the difference between EHR workflow systems and mere EHR systems?
6. Would you share your workflow, writer, editor, publicist analogy?
7. What does a true EHR workflow system *do* for physicians?
8. Would you show us the XciteEHR Office View and explain its functions?
9. What physician specialty practice areas does the XciteEHR cover?
10. How will you educate the world about true EHR workflow systems?
11. Thoughts, Barry? About EHRs, workflow, and physician happiness?

Barry, Is XciteEHR Meaningful Use Stage 2 Certified?

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Friday, 24 October 2014 11:07

XciteEHR is indeed Meaningful Use Stage 2 certified.

Meaningful Use 2 is a set of very ambitious standards implemented by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, designed to create robust digital clinical records, track Meaningful Use metrics and Clinical Quality Measures, increase interoperability among various vendors, create uniform standards for reporting data to health agencies, and create standards for the secure communication of electronic health data to patients. Certification of an EHR is tied to incentive payments from the government to physicians with Medicare and Medicaid patients and eventually is expected to be the standard imposed by health insurance companies for all physicians.

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1. A Multi-Specialty EHR Workflow System: 10 Questions For Barry Hayut, Xcite Health
2. How did you end up in the primary care specialties EHR workflow system business?
3. Could you discuss Meaningful Use 2 and why it’s important to be MU2 certified?
4. Do you also sell a Practice Management system?
5. What's the difference between EHR workflow systems and mere EHR systems?
6. Would you share your workflow, writer, editor, publicist analogy?
7. What does a true EHR workflow system *do* for physicians?
8. Would you show us the XciteEHR Office View and explain its functions?
9. What physician specialty practice areas does the XciteEHR cover?
10. How will you educate the world about true EHR workflow systems?
11. Thoughts, Barry? About EHRs, workflow, and physician happiness?

Barry, What's The Difference Between an EHR And an EHR Workflow System?

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Friday, 24 October 2014 11:06

Let me first explain what we mean by workflow. As the leader in this area it is important that I explain how this ‘changes things forever’—for many physician practices! If you feel that, as a physician, you are constantly giving instructions to your staff—and always following up to ensure things have been done—then XciteEHR is for you. If you feel that you are being asked to change the way you practice medicine to adapt to the strictures of your EHR software, then XciteEHR is for you. Or, if you feel that you should not take a productivity hit when you implement an EHR and feel instead that your productivity should improve and finish charting as the exam is done, then the XciteEHR is for you This is what truly sets us apart.

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1. A Multi-Specialty EHR Workflow System: 10 Questions For Barry Hayut, Xcite Health
2. How did you end up in the primary care specialties EHR workflow system business?
3. Could you discuss Meaningful Use 2 and why it’s important to be MU2 certified?
4. Do you also sell a Practice Management system?
5. What's the difference between EHR workflow systems and mere EHR systems?
6. Would you share your workflow, writer, editor, publicist analogy?
7. What does a true EHR workflow system *do* for physicians?
8. Would you show us the XciteEHR Office View and explain its functions?
9. What physician specialty practice areas does the XciteEHR cover?
10. How will you educate the world about true EHR workflow systems?
11. Thoughts, Barry? About EHRs, workflow, and physician happiness?