MONTVALE, NJ – SRSsoft is touting its latest contract as proof that not all electronic medical record solutions are created equally.

The Montvale, N.J.-based developer of a “hybrid EMR” has signed a contract with the Southeastern Orthopedic Center and Tattnall Hospital Company, which operates a hospital, 15 physician offices, an ambulatory surgery center and physical therapy and imaging services in southeastern Georgia, to replace its current EMR.
Company and hospital officials said the EMR, which is certified by the Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology, proved to be more of a burden than a benefit.

“We purchased a CCHIT-certified EMR and subsequently considered ourselves well-positioned to secure the $44,000 EHR incentives available to physicians under the Economic Stimulus legislation,” said Michael Kleinpeter, CEO of Southeastern Orthopedic Center and Tattnall Hospital, in a press release. “However, before we even installed the EMR, we regretted our decision – we realized that our physicians wouldn’t be able to use the EMR and that we would not earn the potential incentives.”

“The CCHIT EMR we had purchased would have placed overwhelming demands on our physicians and resulted in a significant loss of productivity, even if we had overcome the initial implementation hurdles,” said Chris Nicholson, MD, of Southeastern Orthopedic Center. “The hybrid EMR will be easily adopted by all of our providers because it accommodates each of our individual practice styles, and I am confident that it will deliver workflow and patient-care advantages that far surpass whatever we might have received from the government.”
SRS officials say they developed a hybrid EMR to serve the complex environments encountered in orthopedic practices, and found the solution works well in all clinical workflow and patient care situations.

“Many physicians find CCHIT-certified, point-and-click EMRs unusable,” said Evan Steele, CEO of SRSsoft. “The SRS hybrid EMR allows them to collect the discrete data they need, but without subjecting them to a labyrinth of productivity-sapping templates.”