Nebraska facility fast-tracks EHR deployment

Faith Regional Health Services, a 166-bed acute-care facility in Norfolk, Neb., has deployed EDGE (Electronic Data to Gain Excellence), Quammen Health Care Consultants’ EHR powered by Siemens Healthcare’s Soarian Clinicals.

The first day of EDGE operation--in June--clinicians placed 69 percent of orders electronically, according to Quammen, a healthcare information system and business consultancy based in Orlando, Fla. The hospital implemented in six months, Quammen said.

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