Harnessing Tech to Revolutionize Recovery: The Impact and Change Brought by EHRs to Rehab and Behavioral Centers

Technological advancements in the healthcare industry have had a big impact on the way rehabilitation facilities work in the past few years. Just like every other industry, improvement in technology is helping improve facility efficiency, patient outcomes, inpatient recovery management, patient satisfaction, and many other factors linked to management of recovery facilities.

A big shift is now being witnessed with the introduction of EHRs (Electronic Health Records) in rehab facilities.

Covering the full spectrum of care, including DETOX, Residential, IOP, PHP, Partial Care, and OP

EHRs developed specifically for rehab centers help cover the full spectrum of care for centers. Not just that, but they help solve critical management challenges that we cover in detail in the blog.

Stay tuned to check how you can improve the efficiency of your rehab center and provide enhanced healthcare to patients with EHRs.

Giving individualized and custom care to patients with treatment planning

The type of care a patient gets defines the biggest success factor for any patient’s wellbeing. EHR software like the Intelligen EHR come with advanced treatment planning modules. These modules help centers create customized care plans for each patient.

These modules can be customized using key factors that impact the recovery for patients. You can gather the data from patients, input that into the software and customize the algorithm to create plans that have the best probability of providing the best possible care for a particular patient.

These are further customized to meet specific goals for patients.

Enhancing patient outcomes with advanced appointments scheduling

The appointment scheduling modules present within the EHR software allows you to manage all appointments with patients at one place. No matter the number of patients you have, one screen will allow you to manage your schedules while ensuring minimal wait time for patients.

This also makes sure that patients do not have to wait too long or do not get the apt care they need.

Electronic Prescribing of Controlled Substances (EPCS)

EHRs, like the one offered by Ardent HeathTech, come with a secure Electronic Prescribing of Controlled Substances (EPCS) module. This helps you leverage technology to automate prescribing and include multi-factor authentication in prescribing along with helping you maintain an audit trail.

It helps enhance accountability on your part and reduce the scope of error.

Reducing wait times with efficient bed management

Bed management is often a big challenge for behavioral centers and inefficient management in this area results in longer wait times for patients. Automated tracking and allotment of beds using EHRs allows for optimal usage of bed space and reduces wait times.

Custom reporting with features designed to suit individual needs

In the times of data and automations, reporting based on data is what helps businesses experience the next level of efficiency. It is no different in the case of rehab centers and EHR software can help centers make more informed decisions based on reports.

The best part is that you can customize these reports to match the current challenges you are facing, here are a few examples:

The management of centers can create and access new types of reports based on the current challenges and goals that they have. Data provides higher visibility into the growth and efficiency of centers.

Therapy session planning

Individual and group therapy sessions form one of the most important aspects of a rehab center. The Intelligen EHR is equipped with a dedicated module which helps to schedule and track individual and group therapy sessions.

This means automated scheduling of sessions and tracking their success, directly increasing the outcome for patients.

Effective and advanced medication management

Medication management is the last area where a center would want an error to take place. Another challenge apart from errors is helping patients understand and manage their medication along with the schedule because medication can become overwhelming in many cases.

The EHR software makes it effortless to manage medication schedules and keep track of prescriptions. It also helps track patient progress, enabling complete management and oversight in one place.

Advanced document management features

Managing data for patients has always been a tough task for rehab centers especially when there are a lot of patients with each patient receiving multiple forms of treatment. Stakeholders in this case have to spend a lot of time gathering information, analyzing each case and making decisions best suited for a particular patient.

However, EHR software offers document management all in one place. This means the stakeholder can access all patient data in one place. They can know everything about the history and assess the conditions based on all the different treatments and programs being served in the particular case.

This increases the efficiency, experience and outcomes for the patients along with reducing time wastage for centers.

Enhanced data security

Data security is one of the biggest challenges solved by technological advancements in every business sector. Manual data comes with challenges like human error and data leakage but in the case of software, security is enhanced with dedicated storage at one place and the availability of all data and information in one place.

Enhanced internal coordination

With all the data in one place, internal coordination is improved and different professionals can effortlessly share their insights using set formats. This allows every caretaker to make informed decisions at the click of a button as compared to making decisions without the required information.

Experience the future with EHR

EHR software is changing the way rehab centers provide treatment to patients. The increased efficiency is resulting in better outcomes for patients and seamless operations for center executives and management.

Have you experienced challenges in your center and have considered solving them using EHR software? Click here to get a free demo of our Intelligen EHR and experience the future of rehab centers.