Electronic Medical Records Software

Medical practices and healthcare organizations may qualify for financial incentives from the federal government for adopting electronic medical records software. Under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), healthcare organizations who can demonstrate meaningful use of electronic medical records (EMR) may be eligible to receive financial incentives that can help defray the cost of transitioning from paper records to electronic records. Meaningful Use is achieved by meeting at least 20 of 25 different objectives, which include capabilities such as:

• Generating prescriptions electronically.
• Implementing drug-drug and drug-allergy interaction checks.
• Maintaining an up-to-date problem list of active diagnoses and current medications.
• Recording specific demographics and charting specific vital signs.
• Providing patients with an electronic copy of their health information and clinical summaries for each office visit.
• Exchanging key clinical information with other providers.
• Providing adequate security for electronic medical information.

The right electronic medical records software can help achieve these objectives and secure eligibility for financial incentives. It can also help improve the quality of patient care, increase practice efficiency, enhance revenue cycle management and improve profitability.

Learn more about what electronic medical records software can do for your practice.

Web based electronic medical records software offers benefits for the smaller practice.

For the smaller practice interested in demonstrating Meaningful Use, a Web based software solution may be the easiest and most affordable option. Where many electronic medical records software solutions are expensive to purchase and complex to install and manage, a Web based medical records solution requires no upfront purchases – the software is available as a service offered via a Web browser for an affordable monthly subscription. The software provider hosts the software and secures patient data at a highly secure offsite data center, handling all upgrades and maintenance - physicians, administrators and patients can connect to the online EMR system from anywhere, at anytime.

Centricity Advance provides affordable electronic medical records software.

GE Healthcare's Centricity Advance is a Web based electronic medical records solution that is certified by the federal government as a Complete EHR solution, enabling practitioners using the software to qualify for financial incentives. Centricity Advance enables the smaller practice to:

• Transition quickly and easily to electronic medical records.
• Use electronic records to improve care by consolidating patient information in a single record and making data available to physicians, administrators and patients whenever they need it.
• Coordinate care more easily with other providers.
• Use medical office management software to streamline administrative tasks, simplify billing, increase the accuracy of coding and manage the revenue cycle to improve cash flow.
• Provide patients with the ability to go online to schedule appointments, request prescription refills, view lab results and access their electronic medical records.

Learn more now about Centricity Advance, electronic health record software and EMR electronic medical record technology.