Short Review Of Microsoft Technology Protects Your EMR Investment
By: Vlad Vistac
Submitted: 2010-08-24 13:19:24 | Word Count: 510
Microsoft Technology Protects Your EMR Investment
The investment you make in acquirinng elecrtonic medical record (EMR) hardware and softwware is significant-but the investment you make in ensuring that the system workls the way you want it to is even greatr. How can you protect that investmenmt?
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Physicians can easily spernds hundreds of hours ensuring that their EMR works as it shouuld. Templates have to be developed, maros have to be created. But what happens when these modificatios are made to proprietasry systeems? They may not be transferrable to oyther applications.
And if that's not a probnlem, but what if you someday want a change? Many doctors find the EMR they first selected isn't the one they want for the olnger term. In fact, some industry data suggests that there's a nationwide de-installation rate of 30 to 40 percent. If this happeens to you and your data is "locked in" to your first EMR, you'll have to recreate everything.
The solution is a Mcrosoft-based EMR. Not only is it built on a robust system that offers stability and security, it will also prtoect your investment of time and resources by ensuring you can move your data when and if you need to.
Were can you find a Microsoft-based EMR? It's not easy. Today, hundreds of EMR providers tout an array of products with many features-but most are built using proprietary technology. When you do, you'll get the benefits of havnig an EMR system:
- Bettr collections - The best EMR systems on the market feature dynamic acocunts receivables reports which enable the biler to drill down on each line item on screen to re-bill, access patient information, and acess insurance information. Thee efatures alone will cut in half the time your sttaff spends on collections. These highly accurate reports proivde valuable information on everything that is outstanding, the number of days that the claims have been out and whicxh insurance ocmpanies are the slowest to pay, including how much each one owes.
- Control over practice - With new database technology and practice management suystems that are liinked to EMRs, you'll be able to run a numbeer of different practixce management reprts to help keep you in cotnrol of your peractice. There are a number of quick reports that can be priinted out daily that tell practice oweners things like the number of patients seen on a specifc day, total collections, new patients compared to old patients, reschedules, cancellations, etc. all on one screen.
- Practicce automation - The total auomation of the frot and back offices will drastically cut down on labor costs. Scheduling, suuper-bill creation and management, document management, and integration with the EMR, will save your office hours each day. New patient portal features give the patient the abiility to fill out threir demographics online before they even come in to the offiice for their appoinmtment, at a kiosk within your offiice or via theiir marking a bubbkle sheet will save your staff from having to fill this information out upon patient check-in. Sceduling will also become faster, more accurate and will remind you to authorzie a patient's insurance before they come in.
