A fundamental component of any cardiac device clinic’s modern workflow is its electronic health record (EHR) system. A reliable EHR system enables clinics to provide higher-quality care to patients while driving organizational efficiencies and ensuring patient data stays accurate, up-to-date, and secure.
EHR systems are pillars of modern clinic management, allowing providers, nurses, and other staff to quickly and easily access relevant patient information. While they serve as the single source of truth for patient records, EHR systems are not “all-in-one” solutions for clinic management. Rather, they are a single component of a larger technology ecosystem, or “tech stack” in IT speak.
What is an EHR integration?
As the nerve center of a clinic’s tech stack, an EHR system needs to be able to seamlessly interact with other specialized clinical software solutions, such as applications for diagnostics, electronic prescriptions, billing, appointment scheduling, and more. The uninterrupted flow of patient data from each specialized application to the EHR is essential for advancing patient care.
EHR integration is the process of establishing this uninterrupted flow. It enables patient medical records to be accessed and updated across a variety of specialty software solutions. It makes patient data—including personal information, medical history, and more—readily available to clinicians in the different software tools they use every day.
EHR integration is vital for device clinics, where CIED management applications handle critical data, including device transmissions, reporting, and billing, all in a digital format for rapid access. Integrating CIED management software with an EHR system ensures patient records are always up-to-date, reducing staff burden.
What can an EHR integration can do for a CIED clinic?
Today’s CIED clinics have a unique challenge regarding patient management; device clinics receive large amounts of data daily from a growing variety and volume of devices and care modalities. A modern CIED management platform makes quick work of these data volumes so that the care team can receive, analyze, and interpret the data. However, the data triage efforts and clinical reports still need to be properly updated in each patient’s medical record.
Traditionally, clinicians would have to manually add CIED reports to the EHR system, a tedious and time-consuming process that puts a strain on clinic efficiency. An EHR integration can automatically update data shared between the CIED management platform and electronic patient records, eliminating arduous manual entry and allowing significant process improvement.
EHR integration process improvement gains include:
- Decreased manual processing
- A reduction in staffing needs
- Real-time access to up-to-date patient data
- Automated billing with detailed financial transaction (DFT) configurations
- Reduced administrative costs associated with transcriptions and claims management
- Updated patient records for care compliance, reporting, and research
For CIED clinics, an EHR integration to a CIED management application can be a big contributor to patient-centric, staff-friendly modern cardiac device care.
An introduction to Murj EHR integration
When a case is escalated to my attention, I want instant access to essential patient historical device data and therapies. The last thing the patient wants is a 40-minute delay while I dig through EHR looking for prior events. Using Murj, the key data is right there, dramatically improving my ability to effectively and efficiently deliver care.
Dr. Joseph J. Tiano Cardiology Physicians of Fairfield
Integrating our EHR with Murj was an impressively smooth process from end-to-end. After one call with Murj, each member of our IT team knew exactly what was needed to execute a seamless integration. Our billing staff is excited to finally have billing charges automatically populated which avoids manual entry completely.
Dan Von Forell IT Integration Engineer, Salinas Valley Memorial Healthcare System
Murj provides rapid, cost-effective, and secure bidirectional connectivity with all major EHR systems, seamlessly integrating 185+ clinics to date, including 100+ Epic integrations.
Murj offers a flexible, vendor-agnostic integration solution tailored to meet the specific needs of each clinic—because there should be no “one-size-fits-all” approach to CIED management EHR integrations. The depth of Murj’s integration capabilities includes everything from HL7 and FHIR APIs to custom APIs and SFTP. This allows Murj to accommodate each organizations’ unique EHR configurations, security protocols, billing requirements, resource constraints, workflow demands, and timelines. And with a full-time dedicated team of engineers, Murj will typically deliver a new integration in under 100 days.
Murj EHR Integration capabilities include:
- An expansive network of integrated cardiac device data feeds—Murj can be the single point of integration for a growing network of cardiac vendors, including all major CIED implantable and ambulatory device vendors.
- Advanced automation—Murj transfers completed patient reports into the EHR automatically, and generates and closes orders to eliminate manual scheduling and order entry, and streamlines billing with DFT data feeds.
- Powerful patient care features—Seamlessly integrate critical patient information.
- Launch in Context—Powered by SMART on FHIR, access Murj directly from the EHR patient record without the delay of separate logins.
- Medication Lists—Pull and display active medication lists within Murj, ensuring providers have up-to-date information without extra clicks.
- Hospitalization data—Access recent hospitalization records within Murj to get comprehensive patient health history, aiding in clinical decision-making.
- Ejection fraction data—Automatically sync ejection fraction measurements from the EHR to monitor cardiac function trends.
- CHADS-VASc scores—View CHADS-VASc scores within Murj, providing immediate insights into stroke risk assessment for patients with atrial fibrillation (AF).
- Premium support staff—Murj partners closely with IT and EHR teams through every phase of integration—scoping, development, testing, and continuous support.
Supporting clinics of all shapes and sizes
Improving patient care is top of mind in everything we do at Murj, and our EHR integrations are no different. Our EHR Integration experts will work closely with clinicians and IT team to ensure a smooth end-to-end integration that delivers superior patient care workflows.
To learn more about Murj EHR Integrations and how Murj customers benefit, contact us today.
