Physicians Practice - Tech Guide 2008 - (Page 27)

Does Your Hospital’s Stark Strategy Guarantee Success? Despite the current surge in “encouragement” on federal and state levels for healthcare providers to convert to electronic health and medical records (EMR/EHR), much confusion and hesitance still exists. Current legislature offers grants, low/no interest loans, and other incentives to providers and clinics. Relaxed Stark Legislation even allows labs and other hospital organizations to contribute towards the purchase cost of an EMR for providers, as much as 85% in some scenarios. Still, two formidable hurdles arise: education and consensus. Education is needed because providers may not know what incentives they may qualify for, or how to take advantage of them, while large hospital organizations often question what they are legally allowed to offer or subsidize. And once that bridge is crossed, only the challenge of reaching a consensus on the product remains. Who is best equipped to decide on the EMR - the provider that will use it daily, or the organization that picks up the bulk of the tab? What is the likelihood that they judge with the same criteria? High physician acceptance and utilization of the EHR you select is critical to your organization’s ultimate success. e-MDs is the only 2007 CCHIT certified EHR ranked #1 over multiple years. across multiple independent national physician surveys, In 2005, AAFP members rated e-MDs #1 in Functionality and Ease Of Use, and selected the EHR as the clear preference for offices with 1 to 30 physicians. In the 2008 version of the same independent survey, e-MDs once again achieved the most #1’s and the top overall score in Functionality with physicians – by WIDE margins! e-MDs next generation products also conform to a complete standards based data model (heralded Medicapaedia) and web native SaaS software affording your organization a state of the art alternative to costly Citrix server farms. A scalable, integrated solution that physicians of all specialties already prefer – the true definition of a "win-win" scenario. Please contact (888) 344-9836 (sales@e-mds.com) to discuss the extraordinary advantage e-MDs brings to existing, struggling community EHR installations, and how we can make your new installation a painless health information technology experience. CHARTING THE FUTURE OF HEALTHCARE ® e-MDs Solutions Series solutions. Designed by physicians to improve care, reduce errors and simplify business so that time spent with patients is time billed and coded properly. In an independent survey of over 400 users of EHR systems, physicians awarded e-MDs the most #1 ratings, including #1 in functionality AND ease of use! TM e -MDs.com 877.442.4970 ©2007 e-MDs, e-MDs is a registered trademark of e-MDs Inc., Solution Series is a trademark of e-MDs Inc., all other trademarks are the property of their owners 2007 http://e-MDs.com http://e-MDs.com

Table of Contents Feed for the Digital Edition of Physicians Practice - Tech Guide 2008

Physicians Practice - Tech Guide 2008 TG Cover Story: Protect Your Practice and Sleep Better Operations: Paperless? Not Quite The Internet: You've Got Mail...Or Do You? Patient Relations: Attention Grabbers The Tech Doctor: All About Blogs Lessons Learned: 'My EMR Nightmare...And Why I'd Do It Again' Scheduling: No More No-Shows The Marketplace: Who's Got Your Back IT Enhancement: Time, at Last, for an Upgrade? Online: 'Yup, I'm a Junkie. And Proud of It.' In the Office: New Technologies in the Workplace: Blessing or Curse? Web Surfing: If You Build It...

Physicians Practice - Tech Guide 2008

For optimal viewing of this digital publication, please enable JavaScript and then refresh the page. If you would like to try to load the digital publication without using Flash Player detection, please click here.