Women's Care, Inc.
Dr. Pablo Rodriquez is President and CEO of Women’s Care. He runs a multi-site practice that provides a full continuum of health care to women in southeastern New England. He and his team of 18 providers struggled with the high administrative and clerical overhead costs that it takes to run paper-based offices, including the costs of tracking 56,000 patient visits with paper clips, liners,...
South County Family Medicine, Inc.
Dr. Jonathan Bertman first used an Electronic Health Record (EHR) more than ten years ago when he worked for South County Internal Medicine in Wakefield, RI. While the group's EHR had features and abilities to facilitate documentation, Dr. Bertman found that it hampered his ability to see patients, “Entering something like ‘productive cough for 3 days’ turned into a painful exercise of navigating...
South County Internal Medicine, Inc.
In 1997, when Dr. Nitin Damle’s four physician practice at South County Internal Medicine in Wakefield, RI, implemented an EHR, it was considered visionary. Dr. Damle and his partner Dr. Paul Barratt saw the rest of the world embracing new technologies and believed their profession should be no different. "We believed that it was an inevitable necessity in healthcare as well. Paper...
East Bay Pediatrics
Dr. Marco Ferretti, whose interest in technology started as a child, has been working with computers for over 30 years. Since seeing an electronic medical record for the first time almost 15 years ago, his goal has been to have a practice with an EHR. He first got the practice to start with electronic booking, and then to use "templates" in Microsoft Word for well child visits...
Blackstone Valley Community Health Center
Blackstone Valley Community Health Center’s (BVCHC) mission is to provide the highest quality, lowest cost healthcare to the Rhode Island residents of Central Falls and Pawtucket. Health maintenance and disease management are particularly important, as leading diagnoses include chronic diseases such as obesity, diabetes, and asthma. In an effort to increase quality, efficiency, and...
Aquidneck Medical Associates, Inc
Dr. David Gorelick realized very early in his career that the complexity of patient care and all the associated data required an organized, efficient means of record keeping. During residency in 1991, he designed his own computer database to address many of the inefficiencies associated with paper charting. In 2003, as a member of the Rhode Island Quality Institute (RIQI) Clinical IT Leadership...
Family Care Center
In the late 1990s, physicians at Memorial Hospital and their outpatient clinic, the Family Care Center, knew that utilizing an EHR was going to be essential to providing quality care in the 21st century. However, once the decision to purchase an EHR was made, choosing and implementing the right EHR was an important challenge for Medical Director Dr. Arnold Goldberg and Dr. Charles Eaton, who were...
Family Health and Sports Medicine
As a family practitioner and President of RI Primary Care Physicians Corporation, an independent practice association (IPA) in Cranston, RI, Dr. Al Puerini was looking for an EHR that would help all the primary care physicians in his group improve on the inefficiencies of "fumbling through paper charts." After reviewing more than two dozen EHR products that were too complicated, too...
Butler Hospital
Dr. Lisa Shea and her colleagues had quite a few reasons to commit to implementing an EHR at Butler Hospital in Providence, RI. At such a busy facility—one which saw almost 9,000 patients in 2008—they felt an EHR would benefit their employees, physicians, and patients by creating a single integrated medical record for each patient. Butler was already utilizing electronic software on...
David M. Steigman, MD
Dr. David M. Steigman, an internist in Providence, RI, has been in solo practice since 1990. He began looking into EHRs in 2004, recognizing that since virtually every other industry had already made the switch from paper to electronic workflows, the healthcare industry would soon follow. He was also motivated by his desire to analyze his own practice independent of the insurers, his...
