EMR Software Blog (EHR Software)

Medical Charting Software Is Affordable for small practice doctors.  Part of the Obama economic stimulus plan includes both incentive payments for adoption of medical charting software and eventually penalties for NOT adopting and implementing the software in a doctors office.

What are the benefits of EMR software?

1- Time savings of having a centalized, computerized chart.  No more time spent wasted pulling or looking for files.

2- Reduced number of pharmacy and drug refill requests.  Teach your patients to call the pharmacy for refills and have the pharmacy send you an electronic prescription refill request.  Then check your messages periodically thru the day and reply

3- Ability to enter SOAP notes any way you wish, by: A- Traditional Transcription method which is then uploaded and placed into the appropriate chart; B- Voice Dictation method or C- Template driven method of mouse and keyboard.

4- Ability to accept Lab results automatically into your EMR software.

5- Increase quality of patient care as a result of reduced medication errors and the benefit of having all information at your fingertips.

6- Benefits of a paperless office with Fax servers and document scanning.

EMR System reseller medicalcharting.com shuns walmart and dell emr hoopla and instead offers doctors a personal, one on one, consultant\expert approach to EMR system software implementation.

MedicalCharting.com President Harry Selent, says “Physicians and doctors do not currently buy automobiles at cheap discount prices and then work on them in their own garage at home.  Instead, they seek out qualified automobile dealers that offer personalized sales, service, and “after the sale” support.  Doctors will work the same way with EMR software vendors, even more so than their automobiles, because their medical practice is the “engine” that “Pays” for the automobile and other investments.  Hence, doctors will not approach this as a “off the shelf” solution that you can go to walmart or sam’s club and purchase.”  Harry Selent also stated “the medical software world and especially EMR software is renowned for “shelfware” - in other words software that was purchased, then put up on a “shelf” somewhere because of lack of support, training, and ongoing implementation and service.”  “Thats whats wrong with the walmart-dell deal, there is no local “person” at the local level that can support the doctors office and do the handholding to help them fully implement an EMR system.

Who will be there to support the doctor when he thinks he’s ready to go paperless, make the switch, and the waiting room is backed up with angry patients because the office staff don ‘t know what to do, or because the templates the doctor thought would streamline his practice, actually are taking more time and impacting his revenue flow?  The walmart-dell deal is bound for failure because they lack the local person to deal with and help the doctor make the transition, and the doctor expect that.

The Medisoft Clinical approach at www.medicalcharting.com will succeed because local dealers will hand hold the doctors offices and guide them thru the implementation jungle.

What happens when the government “pays” for an EMR software system thru public funding or taxes? Will they be able to get a “free” peek at the records whenever they want to? What if a local county government hospital raises tax dollars to pay for a county wide EMR solution for hospitals and physicians, who gets a “free peek” at the info?

If a community health record system is available in a community, who controls access? Lets face it, just about any employee in a doctors office gets access to the EMR software, but what happens when you have a whole community wide database and a disgruntled male employee wants to see the “pregnancy” test results for his girlfriend or wife and bribes a friend who works in another doctors office to log onto the community portal and check results?

Alot of issues to be worked out here… don’t have all the answers, but safeguards need to be in place and penalties for violating improper access to the information that most Americans feel very private about.

This Electronic Medical Records Software Blog will cover many issues facing small doctor practices in todays healthcare marketplace. Statistics show that 70-80% of current physicians are either in solo practice or in a group smaller than 5 doctors. This is the target doctor we work with and support with our consulting practice and with our software solutions.

Feel free to post questions here that you may have concerning adoption or purchase of EMR or EHR software for your medical practice. Questions can range for how do I decide what electronic health record software is best for me; what issues will I face in implementing the software, to what company canI trust to be around for the long haul?