I'm an undergrad student doing a project on population health, and I'm trying to learn a bit about EHRs. Since my local hospitals use Meditech, I figured I'd start there. Before getting into details, I'll just add that 1) I'm in Canada, if that matters at all; and 2) I'm just an undergrad, and I'm not even in a medicine-related field. This is just part of a side project I'm working on, so my knowledge isn't particular high in this area.
In short, my project is about trying to help the local hospital/healthcare system move toward a population health approach rather than just episodic care. We've found that a huge chunk of healthcare costs in the city come from a small population from the inner city, often homeless, with poor mental health, bad food security, and a bunch of comorbidities.
Our project is just to find a way to identify these potentially high-cost patients before they have an episode requiring acute treatment.
In my city, I've found that there are many homeless shelters that actually bring in doctors on a regular basis and offer medical services. I'm wondering whether implementing Meditech Home Care would help keep track of relevant social determinants that might help the doctors (specifically at shelters and other inner city clinics) in identifying patients who might end up being high-cost.
This whole idea, however, is contingent on which features Home Care actually provides. Is anyone here able to help me find a bit more about what it actually does? The link above is pretty vague, and I haven't been able to find anything in any detail.
Apologies if this is unclear. Please let me know if I need to clarify at all. Any help would be hugely appreciated!
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