Urology Healthcare Provider Implements Bed List Power Apps to Streamline Patients Admissions and Care

Overview


VNB Consulting assisted an Urology Healthcare Provider develop and deploy a Power Apps solution integrated with Athena Practice EHR via FHIR APIs to manage patient admissions and care

Customer Profile

Customer is a leading healthcare provider based in Richmond ,Virginia. It has a long history of providing quality care to the Greater Richmond metro area since 1929. The practice prides itself on its strong commitment to the community’s urological needs by recruiting highly skilled physicians and using the latest technology. The practice comprises of over 55 providers that include urologists, urogynecologists as well as physicians specializing in the urologic aspect of anaesthesiology, pathology, radiation oncology, and radiology.

Customer Situation 


Customer was looking for a solution/mobile application for their healthcare providers to search patient data from their Athena Practice EHR system utilizing the HL7 FHIR APIs. The app also required to facilitate addition of new patients to the providers bed list in different facilities. The app also required views for the care provider to review a patient’s medical history, prescriptions, diagnostic lab reports and other relevant details.

Our Solution Offering


Our Apps and Integration team assessed the requirement and recommended a solution using Microsoft Power Platform. Power Automate was used to integrate with the Athena Practice EHR FHIR APIs to get real time data to the front end. VNB theorized that a single point of entry for the physicians to gather patient data would cause a huge reduction in the time taken to achieve their goals. The mobile Power App was designed to be intuitive, user-friendly, and easy to navigate. The Landing screen enabled the care provider to maintain their respective patient’s bed list. It also included a Patient Search integrated with Athena Health Practice EHR FHIR APIs. The App included eye-catching tiles for care providers to navigate easily through each screen to access necessary information like Patient Details, Medical History, Lab reports, Clinical Notes etc. The following FHIR resources were integrated with the Power App - Patient, Practitioner, Diagnostic Order, Coverage, Document Reference, Observation, Condition, Care Plan, Appointment Role-based access was implemented to ensure certain features and areas of app are available only to the authorized people in the organization and administrators. The overall solution benefitted the Customer to enable further digital transformation for various IT use cases with the use of Microsoft Power Platform.

Customer Benefits

  • No Downtime: Can easily add new features into existing Power Apps. Less or no downtime of Power Apps. Business processes will not be impacted.
  • Easy to Understand: Microsoft Power Apps provides designer view which is very easy to understand by business users and operations teams.
  • Easy to Maintain: Our Apps and Integration team provided customer team training on Power Apps development. This helped the team to make changes without any dependency.
  • Easily Accessible Patient Data: With direct EHR integration, care provider can easily and quickly view the historical prescriptions and diagnostics reports.
  • Ease of Use: Power Apps based solution is easy to use for the users.

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