Under the direction of Medical Director Dr. Mary Lynn Morales, CMC launched a new Electronic Health Records (EHR) system in June to streamline and support the work of the clinic. This accomplishment comes after two years of focused research and planning.
The comprehensive platform, called JANE, integrates practitioner and client scheduling, facilitates electronic charting of in-clinic services as well as telehealth sessions, allows for easy scanning of client medical records, and tracks the inventory in CMC’s wellness dispensary for more effective herb and supplement management.
“The transition from paper charts to our new EHR was a herculean effort and I am grateful to everyone who helped pull it off!” said Morales. “Staff and several volunteers spent months cleaning up and scanning documents, uploading them into the system and customizing the new data fields. We also had to thoroughly test the platform to learn how it works, then develop separate training classes for our schedulers, and practitioner and shift coordinator volunteers.”
CMC hosted fifteen initial training sessions, attended by over 100 volunteers and staff, and the training is being integrated into future orientations for new volunteers and staff.