Holy Name Health, a 361-bed acute care hospital in Bergen County, N.J., has developed its own electronic health record system called Harmony EHR that it plans to demonstrate at HIMSS20.
The solution developed by Holy Name Health is powered by Medicomp System’s Quippe Clinical Data Engine. Harmony EHR will officially launch later in Spring 2020 in the hospital’s emergency department and then will be rolled out to the rest of the enterprise later in the year. Harmony EHR will be made commercially available for other hospitals and health systems at a later date.
Holy Name Health currently uses multiple EHR platforms across its enterprise, including an internally built inpatient solution that was implemented in 1999. The hospital will replace all legacy technology in its ED, ambulatory and inpatient settings with Harmony EHR.
“Holy Name Health designed the solution in partnership with Medicomp after identifying a noticeable gap in enterprise-model EHR products in the current marketplace,” said Sai Kandamangalam, chief information officer at Holy Name Health, in a statement. “Harmony EHR is the result of a collaborative effort between our IT team and the physicians, nurses, and other key stakeholders who interface with patients every day. We’ve attempted to cover every possible milestone of care, including optimized patient access using biometrics and streamlined provider, nursing, and billing workflow with AI-enabled clinically intelligent charting.”
Medicomp said that Quippe’s problem-oriented views empower clinicians with meaningful details about a specific patient for any known or suspected disease state, enhancing clinical decision-making while extending the value of existing health information systems.
“We are honored to join in Holy Name’s exciting venture to create its own EHR and offer it to other leading health systems that want to free their providers from inefficient clinical documentation workflows,” said David Lareau, Medicomp CEO, in a statement.
“As we worked to innovate our solution in-house, our use of Medicomp’s market-leading clinical technology allowed us to tweak the product on a very granular level,” Kandamangalam added. “What makes Harmony EHR a superior product is that it has been built by a hospital for hospitals and provides a simple solution that solves a complex problem.”
