CORE Health Care, located between Austin and San Antonio, TX, offers post-acute rehabilitation and long-term care for people with brain injuries, psychiatric disorders, autism or other special needs. Licensed professionals provide physical, occupational, speech, vision, cognitive and psychotherapy. Staying on the cutting edge of new research, CORE provides the most effective treatment with neuroplasticity as the guiding philosophy for individualized care. Our goal is to restore self-directed functional ability to ensure a minimal need for support services. To offer comfort and safety, we have private rooms and a low staff to client ratio. This new, fully-functional electronic health record will not only allow CORE to better track and trend data for day to day rehabilitative efforts, but the data collecting capabilities will allow for even further research into neuroplasticity (the brain’s ability to change), and the impact comprehensive rehabilitation has.
“We are very pleased that CORE has decided to take advantage of Echo’s patient-centric product suite. We are appreciative of the extensive selection process and the due diligence performed by CORE, prior to selecting Echo as its software partner. There is a strong commitment from CORE and Echo staff to ensure a seamless and successful implementation”, said Joe Viger, Vice President of Business Development for The Echo Group. “It was a real pleasure working with Chris Brown, Information Technology Director of CORE and the leadership team through the selection and contractual process”, he added.
In a recent interview with Mr. Brown he provided his opinion on the decision to choose The Echo VHR by stating: “CORE Health Care are not novices on the subject of EHR. We have been using an EHR for almost six years and we have expert staff to make decisions on systems that benefit our patients and caregivers, so I will not belabor the details of our decision process. Suffice it to say that we needed to change our current system to effectively meet the demands of our increasingly complex mix of patients, demanding compliance requirements, and maintain a level of operational efficiency that can enable us grow in our marketplace. Central to our decision process was the ability to make informed clinical decisions in real or near real-time while providing ease of use to our staff.
Our particular segment of the health care market is unique. We provide a broad spectrum of services with outcome measures that are nearly impossible to find in an off-the-shelf EHR. The concept of Echo’s ‘Visual Health Record’ appealed to one of our highest priorities: ‘to quickly visualize a patient’s continuum of care’, so we approached the Echo Group. After a comprehensive vetting process we decided to partner with The Echo Group and we look forward to a mutually beneficial relationship.”
ABOUT THE ECHO GROUP – Since 1980, The Echo Group has been developing enterprise software applications that are used nationwide to address the needs of Behavioral Health organizations. Echo offers a suite of applications for Administrative, Clinical EHR and Billing functions as well as software for Managed Care entities. Solutions are available as self-hosted or SaaS deployments. Echo also provides comprehensive services to support customers including Revenue Cycle Management, Information Technology support and Fiscal and Clinical Process Workflow Analysis. The Echo Group is headquartered in Conway, New Hampshire, with offices in Ohio and California.
For more information contact Joe Viger, VP of Business Development, at joseph.viger@echoman.com