Moses Cone Health System invests $2M to subsidize electronic records in its clinics

Moses Cone Health System, is a five hospital system based in North Carolina and is subsidizing the cost of electronic medical records for their physicians, with GE Centricity, 8 offices are already online. BD

Moses Cone Health System expects to have an electronic medical record system in place for all 29 clinics and physicians offices by the end of next year.

Jenkins said the health system is implementing a program from GE Healthcare known as Centricity, used by more than 30,000 doctors nationwide. It syncs with other GE products that Moses Cone uses to track patient records and billing information.

Clinical activities, medications and results can be entered into a central system, allowing doctors to see a patient’s history immediately rather than waiting for paper copies.

Moses Cone Health System expects to have an electronic medical record system in place for all 29 clinics and physicians offices by the end of next year.