To treat a large number of patients in high-volume clinics, Urgent Care providers require an EMR designed for speed: an Urgent Care EMR that charts simple complaints with a few clicks, yet handles complex problems equally well.

An Urgent Care EMR should not be confused with an emergency room EMR designed primarily for life-threatening encounters.  An Urgent Care EMR should offer super-fast charting that is quicker than handwriting, paper forms, and even dictation.

Agility EHR®, an Urgent Care and Occupational Medicine electronic medical record, meets these requirements. It’s not just fast: it’s agile.

Most Urgent Care facilities also offer Occupational Medicine and Workers’ Comp injury care.  These services require an EMR that meets HIPAA privacy standards and ensures no personal health history is reported to employers or Work Comp carriers.  The EMR should be able to distinguish occupational and non-occupational visits, while it gives the provider a full view of the patient record.

For Worker’s Comp, the EMR should readily manage mandated state work comp forms, such as the California 5021, PR2 and PR4, and complete them automatically from provider charting, to submit electronically with claims.

Perhaps most important, the EMR designed for both Urgent Care and Occ Med / Work Comp should also provide an employer portal where employers can immediately access the data they need without numerous phone calls to the provider’s office.

Agility EHR®, meets these Occ Med / Work Comp requirements and more.

The shift to electronic health records intends to eliminate duplicate testing and treatment and thereby, reduce costs.  It also aims to give patients ready access to their health records, to increase the patient’s participation in their own health and that of their families.  As both patients and employers become more informed consumers, they will demand more from their health care providers: more access and more shared data.  Only an EMR that meets industry standards will enable you to satisfy both your patient and client employer demands, and ensure they look to you for care, and not to your competitors.

To reduce up front hardware costs and to count on predictable software expense, Urgent Care providers may prefer to take advantage of a hosted software solution versus a traditional client-server installation.  Both options offer advantages, so your technical and financial objectives should determine the right solution for you.

Agility EHR® may be deployed as a hosted solution or on-premise installation – the choice is yours.