Medisoft EMR/EHR Provides Practical Portability at an Affordable Price

If you’ve been shopping around for practice management software, you may have noticed that different places use different terminology with regard to electronic patient recordslike Medisoft– to wit, some places refer to “electronic medical records” and EMRs, while others talk about “electronic health records” or EHRs. Is there a difference? According to Health IT Buzz, Health.gov’s outreach magazine, the government likes to use EHR rather than EMR – but most people use them interchangeably. When choosing an electronic patient records solution, the important thing is to make sure you choose a suite like Medisoft Clinical, which is certified as a full EMR by the Office of Health and Human Services, and has all the capabilities for meaningful use required for certification.

Benefits of an EMR

Early versions of EMRs were little more than electronic versions of a patient’s paper chart. While there’s value in digitizing data – it’s more easily searchable, for example – the real value of electronic patient records is their portability. A full EMR like McKesson Medisoft does far more than simply store the same patient information in digital form. It also improves the portability and accessibility of that information so that you can provide better care to your patients – and so can any other medical professional involved in their care. Take a look at the ways that using electronic patient records as they’re intended can benefit your patients and health care as a whole:

• Immediately access vital information about your patients

When a program like Medisoft is consistently used according to meaningful use guidelines, you will always be able to access the latest and most important information on all of your patients, old and new, including diagnoses, test results, consultant notes, allergies and current medical profiles.

• Provide vital information to emergency care professionals and consultants seamlessly

When one of your patients is seen in the emergency room or by a consultant, they’ll have immediate access to your patient’s current medical history. This can be life-saving in a situation where the patient isn’t able to provide information about medical allergies, current medications or diagnoses.

• Move patients from one care setting to another seamlessly

Discharge planning is easier when all clinicians are operating from a single unified patient record. Whether the patient is being discharged to another care setting or to home, access to the patient record is vital to community services and other caregivers.

• Allow you to track outcomes across your entire practice

Not only can you track each patient more accurately, using an EHR like Medisoft allows you to track outcomes across your entire patient base, and, by extension, across other practices. By providing anonymous information from your patient database, consistent EHR use will inform treatment best practices for a wide range of diseases and conditions.

Medisoft Clinical is among the most affordably priced full EMR packages for small to medium size practices. It offers all the capabilities of far more expensive electronic patient records software, but is priced within the reach of independent practitioners and small group practices. Talk to a value-added reseller of +MedisoftEMR to learn more about how your practice can benefit from the best electronic patient records package available.