Testimonial: Supporting Rural Community Health Through Specialized Care

An exceptional care experience can happen in most any setting, no matter how remote. Aspen Mountain Medical Center evinces that with the right commitment and support, many of the challenges facing rural healthcare providers can be overcome.

To help achieve their mission to provide a superior healthcare experience, Aspen Mountain partners with MEDHOST. Leveraging solutions like a perioperative information system and revenue cycle management services, the two partners provide the hardworking community of Rock Springs and its surrounding area with a sturdy foundation for specialized care that surpasses all standards.

Further Reading:

Testimonial: Implementing and Optimizing for Continued Success

Testimonial: Maintaining Growth in Rural Healthcare Through a Strong HIT Partnership

A Family Affair: A MEDHOST EDIS Implementation Story

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The whole thought process behind
the actual build out of Aspen

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Mountain Medical Center was to
bring value the healthcare

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system to not pass along
needless cost to the patient

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but to give them that
top of the line care

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that this community deserves.

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We're able to collaborate a
lot with our local hospital

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and add extra services
that necessarily

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wouldn't be available in
a rural area in Wyoming.

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Initially as a new facility
we had a lot of growing pains.

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We were doing all of the IBM
and servers and everything

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on site which was a lot of
maintenance and updates.

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It was at that
point that we really

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decided that a best
solution for us

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was to go to a
hosted solution.

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MEDHOST is able to integrate
the services that we already

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have here in Aspen we're able
to have a vitals flow so that

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allows for the nurses to be
more at the patient's bedside

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and it helps us grow to give
the nurse more availability

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and malleability to do other
services for our patients.

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If we can pick up the phone
and we can call somebody

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at our EMR or EHR provider
and get an Active Response

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we make change happen faster.

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We protect the patients

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and that's the ultimate goal.
Some of the templates that we

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use some of the built in easy
to access parts of the EMR

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allow us to focus more
on our patient experience

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and be nurse to patient
rather than nurse to computer.

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It's nice that MEDHOST
is able to interface

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with the other products that
we have in the system already.

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We use Mindray which is the
vitals machines and answering

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machines - those seamlessly
flow vitals and anesthesia

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data into the medical
records so they're not having

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to sit and chart all of that.

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It's flowing in, we can
see what's happening,

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and we can tweak it
the way we want it

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and use the product to
the best of its ability.

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The ultimate goal is
taking care of the patient.

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We cannot create the change
that we want to create unless we

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have a solid EHR partner.
MEDHOST takes a lot

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of stress off of us because
we know that the updates are

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getting done all the time.

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It's much better faster.

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It's been a really
good solution.