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Health department shifts to new EMR, secures $138,000 OMH funding for mobile crisis team
Summary
County health staff reported a switch to a new electronic medical records (EMR) system affecting billing and staffing; the county secured $138,000 in OMH funding to support a daytime mobile crisis program and expects that amount to appear annually in the county's state-aid letter.
Cayuga County Health and Human Services staff told the committee that the health department has completed a migration to a new electronic medical-records (EMR) system and is still working through billing integration and staffing implications.
Lauren Wolf said the county transitioned to the new EMR recently and that some billing tasks are being outsourced through the EMR vendor while the department finalizes responsibilities between the vendor and the remaining county billing employee. The department currently has one billing specialist in place; staff said the position holder is expected to graduate with an MSW in July and the…
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