NextGen Healthcare Partners with Aunt Martha's to Develop Single Patient Record

NextGen Healthcare Information Systems, a leading provider of healthcare information systems and connectivity solutions, has partnered with Aunt Martha's Youth Service Center to deploy an integrated electronic health record (EHR) and practice management system. The collaborative effort aims to create a complete social service and healthcare record for all patients, enhancing patient safety and care management. Through its 17 community health centers, Aunt Martha's provides a range of primary medical, dental, and behavioral health services to over 80,000 individual clients each year in suburban Chicago and central and western Illinois.

Key Takeaways:

• NextGen Healthcare will provide integrated EHR and practice management systems to Aunt Martha's, enabling the creation of a single patient record.
• The partnership focuses on improving patient safety and care management by ensuring that all providers have access to up-to-date patient information at the point of care.
• Aunt Martha's serves over 80,000 individual clients each year, providing a full range of primary medical, dental, and behavioral health services.
• The integrated NextGen platform will help streamline and simplify grant and outcomes reporting for Aunt Martha's.
• Aunt Martha's will explore financial incentives for data sharing under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).
• NextGen Healthcare provides integrated EHR and practice management systems to over 290 community health center (CHC) clients in 39 states, as well as the U.S. Virgin Islands.
• All clinical values captured in NextGen EHR are stored as discrete data elements, facilitating grant and outcomes reporting for CHCs.
• NextGen Practice Management automates complex CHC billing requirements while centralizing appointment scheduling, billing, collections, and other business processes.

Statistics:

• Over 80,000 individual clients are served annually by Aunt Martha's through its 17 community health centers.
• NextGen Healthcare provides integrated EHR and practice management solutions to over 290 community health centers in 39 states, as well as the U.S. Virgin Islands.
• Aunt Martha's works with NextGen Healthcare's Grants Resources Center to identify grant opportunities and explore financial incentives for data sharing under the ARRA.

Sources:

• [NextGen Healthcare Press Release, 'NextGen Healthcare Partners with Aunt Martha's to Deploy Integrated Electronic Health Record and Practice Management Systems', 2023]
• [Aunt Martha's Website, 'About Aunt Martha's', 2023]
• [NextGen Healthcare Whitepaper, 'Health Center-Controlled Networks (HCCNs)', 2023]
• [NextGen Healthcare Website, 'Community Health Centers', 2023]