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Serving Lincoln County for more than a century!
Registered nurses Kristi Finck and Megan Shepard with one of the three carts now being used at OMHC for the new electronic record-keeping system. They were busy this week, as were almost all hospital personnel, receiving training on the system.
As of this week Tuesday, Odessa Memorial Healthcare Center and the Odessa Clinic have converted their record-keeping to an electronic format. The move to computer-based records was prompted in part by incentives offered by the government programs of Medicare and Medicaid, which offered incentives to medical facilities making the transition, said hospital administrator Gary DelForge.
The software package alone comes at a cost of $600,000. Necessary hardware and equipment, education and training costs all add to the expense, which will total approximately $900,000. But before anyone chokes on su...
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