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Physicians at Harmony Ambulatory Surgery Center in Fort Collins, Colo., opted for efficiency when they first opened their doors in 2000. They bypassed traditional dictation and transcription options for the clinical documentation that follows gastroenterology procedures, and instead selected ProVation MD with its GI module. Right out of the gate, they chose IT, time savings, cost savings and a one-and-done approach to documenting the surgical experience.

Harmony's Administrator Rebecca Craig, R.N., says, "Our physicians had vision. They knew that all aspects of clinical documentation are moving in an electronic direction. Even though we didn't have an EMR in 2000, the physicians still wanted a procedural documentation system that could download to one." Turns out, it was the right decision.

Harmony Ambulatory Surgery Center is affiliated with Poudre Valley Hospital and is a 27,000 square foot, multispecialty ambulatory surgery center (ASC) offering general, orthopedic, plastic, GYN, urology, ENT and ophthalmology surgery, and GI and pain management services, with the availability of six overnight beds for those who need more care than a same-day discharge affords. Accredited by JCAHO, the center includes four operating rooms, two gastroenterology endoscopy rooms and a pain management room, plus separate admission and recovery areas. The original five GI physicians have increased their numbers to eight GI physicians, and the ASC handles more than 700 cases per month.

Originally hired as the organization's clinical director, Craig says the software works so well that Harmony added ProVation's pain management module in 2003. In fact, the ASC hasn't yet identified an EMR product that physicians like well enough to purchase and has suggested to ProVation that the vendor consider developing an EMR product as well.

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