Case Study: Big Sandy Health Care The Situation: FQHC Takes the Leap from Paper to Electronic Records A private, non-profit corporation established in 1974 and headquartered in Prestonsburg, KY, Big Sandy Health Care is a federally qualified health center comprised of five clinics in eastern Kentucky that service a rural, older and primarily lower-income patient population. The center delivers primary care, dental, behavioral and OB/GYN care to approximately 16,000 patients. Running on paper charts, the organization recognized the need to make the transition to EHRs and sought out to find the system that would best manage their records according to the way they run their clinics. The primary goal in choosing an EHR was to find a system that could provide the foundation to me

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