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[The Alliance is a HRSA fronted health center controlled network.]
[[Fred Rachman - MD Chief Executive Officer]]
[It's really designed to help support the ability of the individual community health centers]
[to provide quality healthcare to the communities they serve.]
[Our mission is really about improving access to care,]
[improving the quality of the care we provide,]
[and also improving the efficiency and economy in the way we provide those services.]
[[Andrew Hamilton - COO & Director of Clinic Informatics]]
[Health information technology, specifically electronic health records systems,]
[have helped the Alliance achieve its aims.]
[One way we've used the EHR is to provide immediate access to data,]
[both at the point of care for clinicians as well as at the practice level]
[to better understand variations in care ]
[and then at the community level to begin to analyze the health disparities we're seeing]
[It really takes a lot to really get the best benefit out of health information technology,]
[which is why the health centers work together through the Alliance infrastructure]
[We chose GE's Centricity Electronic Medical Record for two reasons.]
[One, because it allowed our organization to design the clinical screens]
[used by our practitioners at the point of care]
[in such a way that we could provide evidence-based practice guidelines]
[against actionable measures.]
[The second is that it allowed us to capture structured data]
[that we could then aggregate and look at trends in care for our population]
[of the community in which we serve.]
[I think one of the tools that technology, the Centricity,]
[[Timothy Long - MD Chief Clinical Officer] has helped me with as a primary care provider]
[is decision support in the exam room.]
[We have national guidelines within Centricity]
[that point or alert me to what medications the patient should be on]
[and also what lab tests I should be ordering for this visit.]
[The chart is always accessible.]
[In the past, we've had to look for the chart.]
[Sometimes we had to spend time waiting for the chart for a walk-in patient.]
[Now that issue is completely resolved.]
[We have constantly up-to-date medication lists and problem lists.]
[As a Joint Commission accredited site, ]
[Near North always strives to provide the highest quality care.]
[As a community health center, we've used Centricity Electronic Medical Record system]
[to achieve cost savings administratively,]
[which we've redirected to patient care activities.]
[Implementation of the EMR is really only the beginning.]
[It's through ongoing use that we really get insights on how to really leverage the technology]
[We're continuing to partner with GE in applying those insights]
[into ways that the application is continuously improved as we go forward.]
