A recent post at +PhysiciansPractice talked about major tech trends for physicians to watch in 2015. They’re important and thought-provoking challenges that every physician should consider when deciding which EMR to choose, how to deploy it and how best to implement electronic patient records. +Medisoft EHR, a certified full EHR, helps small to medium-sized practices face and overcome these challenges with tools that are geared especially to their business practices and needs. Check out these ways that Medisoft Clinical – and your certified Medisoft vendor – can help meet each of the challenges identified in the article.
Industry Consolidation
The author noted that many EMR products aimed at small-to-medium practices were being swallowed up or disappearing as the competition for business heats up. Medisoft has been around for years and is one of the most-used medical billing and electronic patient records products on the market. It is available through many independent, value-added resellers. If you choose Medisoft as your practice EMR, you can be certain it isn’t going anywhere. Likewise, choose a reseller with years of Medisoft experience to ensure that they’ll be there to service your practice for years into the future.
Interoperability
A second concern raised in the article was the issue of information exchange. As the national infrastructure for medical information exchange ramps up, physicians are encountering issues with software conflicts and interoperability. As one of the most-used and respected EMRs in the country, Medisoft has been engineered to work with all the major platforms for health information exchange, and will continue to adapt and change as needed. Your practice won’t be left with an EMR that can’t communicate as needed.
Meaningful Use Requirements
The sheer number of meaningful use standards is, to quote the article, mind-boggling, but Medisoft Clinical is designed to make conforming to those standards easier for individual practitioners. Many vendors are offering training and assistance alongside their Medisoft installations to ease your staff into the required record-keeping and knowledge necessary to stay abreast of all the requirements.
HIPAA Compliance
One of the many benefits of Medisoft for mobile practices is its app for physicians and practitioners on the go. The wide range of devices on which health information systems can be used raises issues of patient privacy and security. Medisoft has been at the forefront of ensuring patient privacy from the very beginning, and many Medisoft vendors offer best practices tips to help users keep all data secure, no matter what device is being used.
Work Flow
The article touches very briefly on a fairly big barrier to the adoption of consistent EMR use – physician resistance. Some doctors and medical staff persons complain that EMR use affects and changes their work flow. In fact, Medisoft is designed for adaptability with features that can be customized to work best in a wide range of practices and for a wide range of practitioners.
Data Encryption
Data breaches place your practice at serious risk. Good data encryption helps protect your practice from lawsuits and your patients from having their data stolen. Because all medical data held within Medisoft is encrypted, the most important thing practitioners can do is enforce a strict policy of only accessing medical data and electronic patient records through password-protected Medisoft screens.
These challenges are not deal breakers, especially if your practice is using an EMR like Medisoft, which has made it a mission to provide the tools physicians need to keep up in a technologically challenging world.
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