I’ve been doing some research recently into the long term care EMR market. There’s a number of reasons why I’m interested in this area. One of which was that I met someone at a Las Vegas EMR event who was from a long term care center here in Las Vegas. We didn’t get a chance to talk much, but I was interested to learn more about how EMR software was being used in the long term care market.

I also find this interesting since our EMR has added some new functionality related to extended care as well. We don’t use it in my clinic, but it really is a different model when you might not discharge the patient for a couple years versus a couple hours or less.

I know there are a variety of long term care facilities even including such things as adult day care which kind of fits into that same category also. Does anyone know more about this niche? Anyone know of EMR companies that are trying to serve this niche? I’d like to learn more about what’s going on.

A whole other EMR niche to add to my list of EMR specialties.