Facts About Medisoft EMR

The 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act provides over $1 billion for medical offices and facilities to implement electronic medical records systems. Moving patient records to a computerized format streamlines patient care, makes medical care safer and will provide long-term savings across the health care industry. You don’t have to wait years to see benefits from using an EMR system in your practice, though. When you implement a system like McKesson Medisoft, you’ll start seeing the savings and other benefits immediately.

Benefits of Medisoft EMR

When you store health information electronically through a system like Medisoft, you can finish patient charting more quickly, which frees up your time to spend more time with your patients or schedule more patients in a day.

When you use Medisoft Clinical or Medisoft EMR to chart during patient encounters rather than several hours later, your patient charts and medical records are more likely to be completely accurate because you’re not trying to pull up the details of the encounter through the filter of several hours and many more patients. The enhanced accuracy helps ensure better and more complete medical care.

Medisoft helps prevent filing errors by reducing the potential times when errors can happen. When you use an EMR, you make your notes directly into the patient chart. There’s no chance of transcription errors, and a greatly reduced chance of misplacing or losing important patient records in an emergency situation.

Depending on the EMR system you choose, an EMR can allow you to access patient records over the Internet, which puts their full charts at your fingertips no matter where you’re seeing your patient – emergency room, hospital room, nursing home or the patient’s home.

For your patients, implementing Medisoft Clinical can allow immediate transmission or access to their records by a medical provider if they are admitted to a hospital or seen by specialists or in an emergency room. This reduces the incidence of missed diagnoses and the chance of accidents such as prescription interactions or adverse reactions.

Cost Benefits of Medisoft EMR and Medical Billing

When you implement Medisoft EMR and medical billing, you’re also likely to see a reduction in your overhead costs. Electronic medical records eliminate the need for buying medical chart supplies and the costs of medical storage. You’re also likely to see other reduced costs due to the reduced staffing costs when you switch from paper records to Medisoft. A 2003 study at the University of California, in fact, found that some small group or solo physicians saw cost savings of up to $20,000 annually after implementing an EMR system.

The reductions include lower costs for transcriptions, medical records, data entry, billing and receptionist.

Medisoft is one of the least expensive EMR systems available to physicians and medical providers, providing all of the benefits at a fraction of the cost. For a more detailed analysis of the possible benefits of implementing Medisoft in your office, contact an independent supplier of EMR systems.