ADP AdvancedMD enhances its cloud-based EHR

ADP AdvancedMD has unveiled AdvancedMD EHR 2011 Summer Release, which includes features to streamline meaningful use compliance and simplify a patient's ability to interact securely online with healthcare providers.

The ADP AdvancedMD cloud platform delivers meaningful use compliance status at a glance, clinical reporting, group messaging and “break the glass” emergency features without requiring additional software upgrades or costs, stated ADP AdvancedMD, a Salt Lake City-based provider of cloud EHR, practice management, medical scheduling software and billing applications.

AdvancedMD EHR 2011 Summer Release’s enhanced patient portal provides patients with secure, convenient web access to records. The new release also provides enhanced scheduling; medications and billing transactions; integrated EHR; practice management and billing systems; and simplified and automated clinical reporting, the company stated.

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