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You need to make sure that you have everything ready if your practice is trying to implement EHR software. If you have issues in communicating with your current EHR software vendor, you need to make sure that there is one specific person in the organization who is overseeing the implementation and hence knows about each and every little detail about the software. Before it is actually supposed to go live at the practice, make sure that you test the EHR software beforehand. Before the actual starting date, initiate the use of EHR software throughout the office a couple of months. Analyze the occurred problems in the first place and take control of your previous problems caused by paper-based records. It is crucial to keep asking relevant questions from the vendor about issues that you feel you might have to face with the software, and get answers on how they think these issues should be resolved. Putting in place someone who will coordinate with the vendors and so...

Health IT adoption continues to grow at a rapid rate but with that, the costs are on their way up too. A recent data from the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA), medical practices’ annual expenditures for every full-time physician on IT costs have increased from $15,211 in 2008 to $19,439 in 2012, showing an increase of 27.8%. However, health IT is largely benefiting from the power of cloud to move beyond client-based technologies. Thankfully, cloud-based EHR , practice management and medical billing services are helping physicians mitigate the rising costs of health IT in these ways. Low start-up costs Instead of spending a huge sum of money up-front on expensive hardware or software in the server-based model, the cloud-based solutions require virtually no start-up costs because of their ability to use any current system with a browser and a working internet connection. No IT staff required With the server-based model, hardware and software are housed in you...

Electronic Medical Record (EMR) software have truly changed the face of healthcare industry. They are no longer simple computer software simplifying the practitioners’ daily tasks but have come of age to work as more advanced means to deliver better healthcare. They are now also equipped with Patient Portals to let the patients take more control of their own health. Let’s take a look at some of the benefits EMR integrated Patient Portals are offering. 1.        Health Information Exchange (HIE): A very useful benefit of Patient Portals is that they allow for a convenient exchange of health information which was otherwise not possible with older systems. A patient’s key stats can be shown to him/her through the portal in a more meaningful way than ever before. It saves a lot of time and cost for the practice as well. 2.        Patient engagement: According to a survey, patients are now taking more control over t...