xPert for EMR™
mTuitive is not the complete solution to the challenge of "electronifying" the patient medical record.  mTuitive provides the key solution to several of the most significant challenges facing the successful adoption of the electronic health record.  A workflow that allows and ensures capturing and recording accurate and complete reports is essential to a successful deployment of any EMR system.

mTuitive agrees with Linda Kloss, executive vice president and CEO of the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA), who described the three essential criteria for electronic health records:  

1. Capture data at the point of care ("That's the clinical core that drives everything else," she says.)

2. Integrate data from multiple internal and external sources

3. Support caregiver decision making

Benefits

The mTuitive vision, or what we call ?mTuition,? embraces exactly those principals plus several others:

Structured data is far more valuable than unstructured text by enabling the use and benefits of relational databases; an electronic copy of a paper chart is better than paper but underneath it is still paper.

Interoperability is critical to facilitating the transfer of information between systems and caretakers.  This process must begin with the adoption and enforcement of standard data and terms.  Without following comprehensive standards, there is no way to ensure accuracy and usefulness of the information shared.

Usability is imperative.  mTuitive?s xPert™ product set was designed to enhance the efficiency of the clinician time rather than penalize it.  Clinicians are reluctant to forgo the use of pen and paper to use a system that requires them to type information into a computer.  Getting physicians, nurses and medical technicians to abandon years of routine for a new system is another obstacle. ?We don?t just automate the old systems we change the way the work is done. And sometimes there?s resistance to change,? (paraphrased from a speech by David Brailer, CIO for HSS). 

Elimination of redundant operations like transcription, coding, abstraction and entry to multiple data stores is the mTuitive ROI principle.  The main barriers to EHRs are economic, in that neither physicians nor hospitals have a good business case to implement since the return on investment is complex.