Electronic Medical Record & Practice Management 

The healthcare industry is among the least automated industries in the nation. Studies have estimated that the healthcare industry as a whole is almost 20 years behind the rest of the nation’s industries. Limitations in software, hardware and networking technologies has made EMR difficult to affordably implement in small, budget-conscience and multi-location healthcare organizations .Smaller doctors offices (1-10 physicians) have been the slowest adopters of Electronic Medical Records.

A participant can access the learning programme at any time that is convenient -not just during the specific 1-3-hour period that is set for a conventional course. The episodes can be quick snatches at odd times or long late-night sessions. Cross-time-zone communication, difficult to arrange in real time, is as easy as talking to someone across town when using the Internet.

In a study by Accenture done in March of 2006 in which 519 consumers were polled, results showed that nine out of ten patients believe Electronic Medical Records can improve medical care and reduce the number of hospital errors. Additionally more than half said they’d be willing to pay extra if their records were kept in an electronic format2. Patients have become more educated through the news and internet about how healthcare providers make clinical decisions and the risks associated with drug prescribing. The government has stated on many occasions that by doctors moving to Electronic Medical Records this will help reduce medical errors. With EMR becoming more popular in the recent years patients are seeing some of their providers using EMR and the others not. Patients will likely question the care provided by offices that don’t use EMR. Whether this has a significant effect on an office’s patient retention is difficult to say but it is certainly something that needs to be considered.

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