Healthcare Services · Case study

40% Faster Documentation With a Purpose-Built ER EMR

A freestanding emergency room network cut documentation time per patient by 40%, drove billing errors to near-zero, and made HIPAA enforced by the system instead of by process.

40% faster documentation
Near-zero billing integration errors
96% staff adoption (60 days)
HIPAA compliant by design
The challenge

What they were up against.

The network had been using an adapted hospital-grade EMR — built for inpatient settings and forced to fit the very different workflow of a freestanding ER. Documentation meant navigating menus designed for multi-day inpatient care. Billing integration was manual, and the system didn't understand the freestanding-ER billing model, which differs significantly from both urgent care and hospital settings. Clinicians were spending an average of 35 minutes per patient on documentation that should have taken 15, billing errors required manual correction on a meaningful share of claims, and HIPAA compliance was held together by policies and manual controls rather than by the system itself.

  • Inpatient EMR menus forced onto a fast ER triage-to-discharge flow
  • 35 minutes of documentation per patient — should have been 15
  • Manual billing integration that didn't fit the freestanding-ER model
  • HIPAA maintained by process and patchwork, not by the system
The outcome

What changed.

Documentation time per patient dropped 40%. Billing-error rates on claims fell to near-zero once the billing integration was validated. Staff adoption reached 96% within 60 days — faster than any previous system rollout the network had attempted. And the compliance posture shifted from "maintained by process" to "enforced by the system" — a materially lower risk profile for a growing network. Delivered as a Value Sprint and run through AI Office.

What we built

The system.

ER-native documentation flow

Designed for the freestanding-ER triage-to-discharge sequence — fast, touch-optimized, with smart defaults that anticipate the most common presentations at each stage.

Native FSED billing & coding

Models the freestanding-ER billing and coding structure natively, eliminating the translation layer that caused most billing errors.

HIPAA enforced by design

Role-based access, full audit logs, automated PHI handling, and BAA documentation built into the deployment process for every partner integration — compliance in the data model, not bolted on.

What we shipped

Inside the build.

40% Faster Documentation With a Purpose-Built ER EMR — product screens
It's been a robust system that has been running for several years now and we've been rock solid.
— Eric Wilke, Emergency Medicine Physician & Co-Founder, The Emergency Center
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