You round across multiple facilities. Most of them use PointClickCare. Right now, your team is double-charting, manually copying vitals, and hoping nothing falls through the cracks.
This is the most common rounding workflow problem we see. It is also the most fixable. The integration between a rounding EHR and the facility EHR determines whether the day feels coordinated or fractured.
Rounding providers do not work in one system. They work in two, sometimes three. Their own charting EHR, the facility EHR (most often PCC), and a billing platform behind both.
When those systems are not connected, providers become the integration. They retype vitals. They reconcile medication lists. They look up admission dates in one screen and chart in another.
Every minute spent moving data between systems is a minute not spent on patient care.
The fix is a real integration. Not a one-way data dump. Not a nightly file. A connection that flows both ways and stays current.
When a rounding provider opens a patient in ChartPath, the goal is for everything they need to already be there.
The provider does not need to ask the nurse what the morning blood pressure was. It is on their screen when they walk in.
Integration is only useful if it goes both ways. Notes signed in ChartPath need to land in the facility chart so PCC stays current and complete.
This is the part that often fails in other EHRs. The note exists somewhere, but the facility never sees it. ChartPath was built to close that loop.
Behind the scenes, the connection runs on standard HL7 messaging, including ADT (admit, discharge, transfer) messages. Every time a patient is admitted, transferred, or discharged in PCC, ChartPath gets the update.
What that means in practice:
If you have ever shown up to round on a patient who was discharged yesterday, this is the fix.
A clean PCC integration matters most when it connects to the rest of the revenue cycle. Once the note is signed in ChartPath with the right diagnoses and codes, the claim should drop without manual handoff.
ChartPath feeds directly into ChartPath Practice Management for billing. The same data that came in from PCC eventually flows out as a claim with no retyping in between.
Standing up the PCC integration is part of the standard ChartPath implementation. It does not add weeks to a go-live.
Most groups have integration live alongside their general go-live, not as a separate phase.
If you are evaluating a rounding EHR, integration with PCC and other facility systems should be a primary question, not an afterthought.
A rounding-first EHR has answers to all of these on day one.
Your providers should not be the bridge between systems. The systems should be connected.