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About Fuller Harvey

Fuller is a creative consultant who is bringing her passion for connective, encouraging, and practical communication to Patagonia Health. She considers her greatest strength to be creating an adhesive environment where individuals are valued, supported and celebrated for the contributions they bring to the “team table” and where all communication -both within and without the company – has positive purpose and impact.

Cloud Based Complete EHR Systems: Solving the Build it or Buy it Debate

cloud based complete ehr systems solving build it or buy it

When shopping for an Electronic Health Record (EHR) solution, one of the first decisions to be made is whether to build it (modular EHR) or buy it (complete EHR). Cloud based, complete EHR systems are solving the build it or buy it debate. Modular EHRs give healthcare agencies the opportunity to make a custom solution. […]

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Patagonia Health Expands EHR for Home Visit Intervention Tracking

Home Intervention Tracking in EHR System

Patagonia Health enhances its electronic health record (EHR) software by improving functionality for Home Visit intervention tracking and documentation. Home Visits, used by both public health and behavioral health agencies, create specialized needs for the providing agency. Intervention Tracking with Enhanced Usability According to Patagonia Health Chief Enterprise Architect, John Ramsey, the software improvements enhance […]

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Millennials’ Dark Side: Change-makers of Life Expectancy

Millennials' Life Expectancy

And now the Milliennial discussion takes a very hard and very dark turn … and leads us down a path toward a subject impacting nearly every sector of healthcare:  the opioid crisis. Prepare to read the most startling sentence we have come across in a long time: “US millennials are now dying at such high […]

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Bi-directional Lab Orders Interface

bi-directional lab orders interface

Patagonia Health users are now able to send bi-directional lab orders directly to LabCorp, the world’s leading health diagnostics company, with Patagonia Health’s new Lab Order Interface. Order requisition information is created in the Patagonia Health EHR system and sent electronically to LabCorp. This feature increases operational efficiency and saves time and money by eliminating […]

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Rural Communities Grant Applications to Fund Opioid Response Deadline Approaching

Rural Communities Grant

July 30, 2018, is the closing date for applications for rural communities grant opportunities totaling $15,000,000 through the Health Resources and Services Administration.    Funding opportunity HRSA-18-116 will be awarded to 75 agencies.  Eligible agencies are “all domestic public or private, non-profit or for-profit, entities, including faith-based and community-based organizations, tribes, and tribal organizations, who will […]

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