Natively Integrated Architecture

Each product in the MIE Minimally Invasive EHR portfolio is natively integrated. Our products do not need an interpreter to talk with each other, nor do they require a special interface to share information seamlessly.

EMR

WebChart EMR can be adopted all at once or in scalable increments that are best suited for your practice. WebChart EMR is incredibly flexible, allowing you and your colleagues to document encounters with your choice of point-and-click templates, dictation, or bar-coded paper charts that can be scanned and auto-indexed into the electronic record.

Document Management

The MIE EHR architecture includes robust Document Management. Some practices start with document management, making paper charts available online as a first step to EHR adoption. For practices who embrace electronic health records, document management is an integral and inherent solution component.

Your practice may be ready to go paperless, but the rest of the world is still catching up. Our built-in document management capability will help you convert from paper to electronic, and will help you manage the paper flow from outside sources.

RIS/PACS

The Minimally Invasive EHR platform also includes a RIS/PACS (radiology information system/picture archiving and communication system) for the management of radiology studies – x-rays, CT studies, MRIs, etc..

While many companies offer RIS and PACS capability, these are generally separate solutions from different companies that have been acquired, with a custom-built interface to integrate them. Our RIS/PACS is natively integrated – built on the same Minimally Invasive EHR platform. Our RIS/PACS is also natively integrated with our EMR, with no need to develop and use a custom interface.

PHR

Our Minimally Invasive platform includes an integrated personal health record that enables patients to pre-register online from a portal that is branded to your practice and linked to your Website. Patient information can populate your WebChart EHR using a simple data comparison and reconciliation screen, and your practice can also create a PHR account for existing patients that includes existing data in your WebChart system.

Minimally Invasive EHR Platform

The Minimally Invasive EHR platform depicts the integrated architecture upon which we developed our product portfolio. This architecture draws on the lessons learned from building the Med-Web health information exchange. The lessons learned from the effort required to create the Med-Web are now indelibly etched in our organizational DNA, creating the four pillars below that are now part of everything we do.

Accessible

All MIE products are natively Web-based so clinicians can securely access patient medical records anytime, anywhere, from any Web browser. As there is no software to download or upgrade, you can use a laptop at your office, a PC at the hospital, a computer at home, or a Web-enabled system just about anywhere.

Interoperable

In 1995, MIE created a clinical data exchange in Northeast Indiana called the Med-Web. MIE encountered every imaginable IT environment when building this RHIO – the good, the bad, and the very ugly. We had to get every provider connected and communicating, and the importance of interoperability is part of our company genetic code.

MIE actively participates in standards organizations, providing leadership and promoting industry adherence to those standards. Our applications are built emphasizing an open architecture rather than a proprietary approach. Because our software plays well in the sandbox, integrating WebChart with other systems is generally quick and affordable.

Flexible

Our EHR solutions are engineered to be incredibly flexible. Rather than ask you to change practice patterns to fit rigid application parameters, we want to know how YOU practice medicine. We can then configure our software to fit the workflow of your practice and even your individual clinicians.

Rather than the “all in” approach, we enable you to adopt EHR functionality in increments - starting almost anywhere, and adding the features and functionality you need, as your practice is ready. This approach minimizes practice upheaval, creating a minimally invasive experience.

Affordable

Our EHR solutions are minimally invasive on the practice pocketbook. Because our systems are Web-based, they are inherently more affordable. Most of our customers prefer an ASP solution, so they do not have to invest in servers or exorbitant database licenses. And without a complicated IT infrastructure, practices generally do not have to add IT personnel.

After implementation, we charge a low monthly per clinician fee that only applies to clinical users. This fee includes use of the application, unlimited storage of patient records, upgrades, maintenance, backup and everything else you would expect.

Med-Web Heritage

In the mid-90’s, MIE co-founder Doug Horner authored The Medical Web Project white paper, proposing the development of a Web-based, local infrastructure that would enable community health care providers to share electronic medical information. In 1995, Horner and co-founder Eric Jones started MIE and built the Med-Web, one of the oldest and one of the few commercially viable RHIOs (or regional health information organizations) in the nation. MIE literally connected Northeast Indiana healthcare providers with wires and pliers, building an independent infrastructure at a time when many considered the Internet to be a passing fad, and painfully slow dial-up modems were the order of the day.