Academic Outreach
Medsphere established the Academic Outreach program in 2008 with two primary goals:
- Promote clinical informatics education by giving medical, nursing and informatics students access in the classroom to the most widely deployed and proven electronic health record (EHR) system available
- Improve the provision of healthcare nationwide by working with academic institutions to study EHR implementation and determine the best paths to successful Adoption, Automation and Transformation
With these ends in mind, Medsphere's Academic Incubator program provides academic institutions with the company’s OpenVista open source EHR, as well as implementation and support
services, at a special educational rate. The Academic Incubator Program
manifests Medsphere’s belief that direct and early experience with
clinical information systems will be increasingly important to medical
and nursing students as they become practicing clinicians. Medsphere will also be working with customers that are teaching hospitals and affiliated schools of medicine and nursing to evaluate OpenVista implementation and use in pursuit of the optimal path to Adoption, Automation and Transformation.