Sinai Medical Group goes EHR way

HORSHAM, UK: NextGen Healthcare Information Systems, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Quality Systems, Inc. and leading provider of healthcare information systems and connectivity solutions, has executed an agreement with Sinai Medical Group to deploy NextGen EHR (Electronic Health Record) and NextGen Practice Management. Implementation of the integrated technology platform began in January 2010, with the first clinic expected to go live in August 2010. We are dedicated to making improvements in the quality of the care we deliver, so ensuring that we had a partner that could fully support our efforts was imperative,” said Peter Ingram, VP, chief information officer for Sinai Health System. “Having a resource that we can depend on now to help us get to meaningful use, and in the future as regulations evolve, was another important factor in our decision.”

Sinai Medical Group is a faculty group practice consisting of almost 200 physicians who provide a wide range of medical and surgical specialty care. It is a member of Chicago-based Sinai Health System, a national model for the delivery of urban healthcare. Because patients see different providers across Sinai Medical Group, the ability to support a range of specialties and to exchange data across the enterprise was also a necessity when evaluating partners.

Other members of the Sinai Health System include Mount Sinai Hospital, a 291-staffed-bed teaching hospital that is a Level I Trauma Center and a Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit; Schwab Rehabilitation Hospital, a 102-staffed-bed acute rehabilitation hospital; Sinai Urban Health Institute, a group of urban epidemiologists and community health workers who investigate health disparities and find ways to change them; and Sinai Community Institute, a provider of social support services serving the community.