EMR Systems

The healthcare industry is slowly but steadily transitioning from paper medical records to electronic medical records (EMR) as more physicians realize the efficiencies and benefits of EMR. As more practices adopt the electronic medical record as the standard in patient information, robust EMR systems are required to help manage the data throughout the practice. EMR systems can organize patient records for easier retrieval, make capturing data more efficient, protect patient data, provide secure access, and deliver current patient information to physicians for better point of decision support.

Believing that EMR systems can help improve, streamline and reduce cost in the healthcare industry, the federal government has offered financial incentives to help cover the cost of implement EMR and EMR systems. To qualify, practitioners must demonstrate Meaningful Use of EMR systems by use EMR for such tasks as computerized order entry for medication, performing drug-drug and drug-allergy checks, keeping an up-to-date problem list of current and active diagnoses, generating prescription permissions electronically, record patient demographics, charting patient vital signs and making medical records available to patients electronically.

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Web based EMR systems provide faster implementation and predictable costs.

EMR systems come in a variety of packages and complexity. Some can be quite costly and require significant IT resources to install and maintain. For smaller practices that can't afford such complex solutions, Web based EMR systems offer an affordable alternative. Web based systems require no purchase, installation or maintenance of software and hardware. Instead, the application is available online. Data is housed in a secure offsite data center, accessible at any time from a Web browser anywhere. That means physicians can access patient records both at the office and the hospital, and from any other remote location. And rather than a large upfront outlay of cash, Web based systems offer a monthly subscription rate, making cash flow easier.

Demonstrate meaningful use with EMR systems from GE Healthcare.

GE Healthcare offers Web based EMR systems in Centricity Advance. This innovative Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution combines cloud EMR technology with practice management software and a patient portal technology to deliver a system that has been certified by the federal government as EMR-compliant, allowing practitioners to use Centricity Advance to demonstrate meaningful use of EMR systems.

With Centricity Advance, smaller medical practices can:

• Use EMR throughout the organization to access patient records at any time, make more informed decisions, enhance preventative care and help improve the quality of care overall.
• Use medical office management software tools to simplify billing and administration, code more accurately, submit insurance claims more quickly and improve revenue cycle management.
• Use patient portal technology to give enable patients to view their medical records online, as well as schedule appointments, view lab results, communicate with their practitioners and more.

Learn more now about Centricity Advance EMR software and web based medical billing software.