Acumen nEHR Selected by Over 1,000 New Users This Month

Health IT Services Group has announced that its Acumen nEHR was added to the offices of over 1,000 nephrology providers this month. Acumen nEHR allows all clinicians within a care team to access and share patient information through electronic health records (EHRs) while, at the same time, making sure that the data meets all atonal standards,  according to a press release at prnewswire.com.

The press release notes that, “regardless of who treats the patient, care delivered at each stage is consistently based on real-time clinical data.” Unlike other EHRs, Acumen nEHR is solely for physicians treating kidney disease.

According to the press release, Acumen nEHR provides clinical data, charts and patient information. It also ensures that the data entered is HIPAA-compliant, meets all national standards and provides nephrologists with a real-time clinical information and meaningful use dashboard to help them make decisions about care.  

Acumen nEHR was created by nephrologists for nephrologists, according to the press release. "Acumen's user growth is fueled by our continued efforts to work directly with nephrologists to deliver the most comprehensive and complete nephrology EHR tool in the healthcare industry," said Dana Hensley, president of Health IT Services Group, in the press release. "We continue to forge the EHR path for renal care practitioners and serving the needs of over 1,000 providers is a major milestone."  

Acumen nEHR is certified by CCHIT® and ONC-ATCB, according to the press release, and now has over 5,000 daily users in 32 states, “providing real-time access for almost 2,000,000 patient records,” all Web-based, the press release reports.

CCHIT certification requires “the ability to create and manage electronic records for all of a physician practice’s patients, as well as automate the flow of work in the office; the ability to receive and send electronic data between an EHR and outside

sources of information such as labs, pharmacies, and other EHRs in physician offices and

hospitals, and the ability to keep patient information safe and private.”

The ONC-ATCB certification program for electronic health records certifies that “EHRs meet meaningful use criteria as required by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and qualifies eligible providers and hospitals for funding under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act,” according to cchit.org.

Meaningful use is the designation used to signify that a company has met the standards for switching from a paper-based to an electronic health record system.