How EMRs Can Benefit Your Practice

Physicians are facing increased pressures from every direction. Insurance companies and government regulations burden practices with increasing layers of paperwork while decreasing reimbursement. Higher patient expectations are resulting in increasing frustration, loss of control, higher overhead, and decreasing income.

The key is increasing the efficiency of your current operational workflow without compromising quality of care. The combination of higher reimbursement for cognitive services, combined with saving hours each day in visit and documentation time and decreased expenses, routinely result in dramatic increases in revenue.

Using our Electronic Check-In Solutions to speed medical history gathering, real time savings can be achieved. Streamlining patient flow and improving documentation accuracy may realize real efficiencies.

Using structured data entry (such as templates), especially with the ability to save personalized versions of these templates in a pre-clicked fashion, results in minimal impact on provider workflow (speed). This facilitates the use of pre-prepared information when the majority of patient visits are for a group of diagnoses with similar patient presentations, exams, and treatment plans.

Average time saved in documenting a visit		5 minutes
Average physician appointments per day		25
Total minutes saved per day	(25 visits x 5 minutes)	2 Hours
Total days worked in 12 month period	(5 days/wk x 48 wks)	240
Total hours saved per year	(240 days x 2 hours)	480
Total weeks of work saved per year	(480 hrs / 40 hrs/wk)	12 weeks
ROI from Time Savings
Additional patient visits per day		6.5
Total days worked in 12 month period	(5 days/wk x 48 wks)	240
Additional patient visits per year	(6.5 visits x 240 days)	1,560
Total ROI for First Year	(1,560 visits x $50)	$78,000

Alternatively, you can simply go home earlier every day and spend time with your family.

Streamlines or Eliminates Paper Processes

Chart streamlines awkward paper processes and eliminates duplicate data entry. Customizable templates, preloaded with routine answers, can serve as clinical protocols and allow one-click documentation as well as documentation of multiple complex problems. The script writer includes shortcuts that allow frequently used prescriptions to be written or refilled with just a click or two.

The MedsFile EMR includes complete Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®), ICD-9, and HCPCS databases. Derived from authoritative texts and NIH guidelines, our clinical consults offer the latest diagnostic and treatment guidelines for over 1,500 diseases. Evidence-based guidelines and disease management ticklers help ensure superior patient care and outcomes. The extensive drug database of nearly 35,000 medications, vitamins, and nutraceuticals lists available forms and strengths and offers full prescribing consults.

Enhanced patient knowledge is reinforced with physician editable English and Spanish patient education handouts, covering nearly 1,500 conditions and medications. High-resolution anatomical art can now be added to procedure reports, referral letters, or the medical record. Specialists can send professional looking consult letters to their referring colleagues.