Case Study: Colorado Center For Photomedicine

Dr. David Verebelyi is the founding physician and Medical Director of The Colorado Center for Photomedicine, located south of Denver in Highlands Ranch, CO. The Center serves the needs of more than 3,000 patients and acts as a regional hub providing light based medical and aesthetic procedures within the dermatology field. Having grown steadily since its opening in 2005, Dr. Verebelyi designed his practice from its inception to be a virtually paper less operation by leveraging the latest in electronic medical record (EMR) and document scanning technology. In order to operate efficiently in the billing office while providing quality clinical care, they rely on technologies designed by Fujitsu and PatientNow.

The Colorado Center for Photomedicine was designed from the ground up to utilize innovative scanning and EMR technologies, therefore, many of the growing pains of migrating from legacy, paper-based processes were avoided. Prior to opening his own practice, Dr. Verebelyi had the benefit of more than four years of experience at a clinic that labored with a combination of file cabinets and homegrown patient record systems. During this timeframe, he was able to closely evaluate these methods and the opportunity cost that they evoked upon patient care and customer service. Valuable amounts of time that could have been spent caring for patients had to be diverted on document filing and retrieval. Taking this into account, Dr. Verebelyi made it his goal to implement a records management technology that would best suit his patient and practice needs.