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...
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...
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...