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Company Selection

This paper is being submitted on January 21, 2017, for Michelle Carter's Quality Improvement in Healthcare H330/HSA3383 course

Elara Healthcare is one of the first growing healthcare companies and is dedicated to initiating creative and new software technologies in the healthcare industry. Elara Healthcare values their patients and therefore, they engage in satisfying their needs by applying patient care management with the aid of modern technology that is effective and efficient. This healthcare company focusses on record keeping of patients, teamwork within the various disciplines and cost controls. Application of software in the industry is one of the great success that the company has achieved and continues to advance it for excellent patient services.(Varshney, 2007)

With the various changes experienced in the healthcare industry, Elara healthcare demonstrates how technology can be effective when it comes to hospice and pediatric hospice. The company specializes in Healthcare IT, Web hosting, consulting, website design and hospice Electronic Medical Record. Modern technology has transformed the healthcare sector and therefore the need of companies like Elara which adopts the current trends and the technological advancements present.(Jepsen, 2010) The features of EMR provided by Elara are beneficial regarding billing, auditing costs, reports, pricing, and charting. All these aspects simplify healthcare management and make it effective especially in a busy environment.

To obtain accurate results, Elara looks into different aspects which include the number of complaints in the complaints field, the positive and negative reviews of clients, the level of acceptance regarding service provision, thelevel of rating, thenumber of healthcare organizations using their services and the level of compliance with authorized institutions. When the outcome of results tends to be positive, then the company is said to have done well. High ratings prove that the company has a positive impact in the healthcare industry.
 
Reference

Varshney, U. (2007). Pervasive healthcare and wireless health monitoring. Mobile Networks and Applications, 12(2-3), 113-127.
Jepsen, T., Mithas, S., Hsu, C.-Y., & Kraft, G. (2010). Healthcare IT. IT Professional, 12(2), 14-17.

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