How EMR Records Can Be Helpful

Posted by AMS at 24 AUG 6:38 am

Electronic Medical Records (EMR for short) can improve your healthcare facility in a variety of ways. Anything that your organization can do to provide better healthcare to patients is essential, and with EMR you can provide more efficient healthcare, as well as reduce errors and increase the effectiveness of doctor collaboration efforts.

Of the many scientific and technological advances in the medical industry, many of them have improved healthcare, and many have not. EMR can really improve your healthcare facility in a variety of ways, because it makes life easier for physicians, nurses, and staff members, while at the same time providing better healthcare for patients.

One of the crucial ways that EMR are helping healthcare organizations is efficiency. Often times office managers, assistants, nurses, and even doctors can spend countless hours sifting through traditional print and paper medical records looking for a particular file on a patient. No matter how organized a healthcare facility is, this problem occurs from time to time. EMR can help eliminate this problem, as having records easily accessible in electronic format improves organization as well as efficiency. This allows doctors to provide better healthcare, in a more organized manner.

Another benefit of EMR is error reduction. Errors are all too common on patient medical files, and the vast majority of the time these errors can be attributed to someone mis-transcribing information. EMR take a significant aspect of the “human error” out of the picture, which enables healthcare organizations to provide more accurate patients records. This can lead to better care for patients, as well as lessen the potential for medical malpractice lawsuits.

A third benefit of EMR is how they easily enable collaboration between doctors. The typical patient no longer has just one family doctor, but often times will see a variety of specialists for a variety of medical conditions. With EMR different doctors can easily see patient records without having to worry about the time-consuming process of locating physical files on this patient.

These are 3 benefits of using quality EMR software, and if your healthcare organization is not using EMR then I urge you to check out the possibilities that EMR can bring to your organization.

17.08.2010 | Author: JamieHanson | Posted in Business

Example Cost – Benefit Analysis for PM License

Posted by AMS at 19 MAR 8:00 pm

Example Cost / Benefit Analysis

This analysis uses industry averages from various sources.

In this scenario, a single doctor medical office sees 30 patients per day and receives 100 phone calls per day. In addition to the physician, there are two clinical assistants and two front office staff.  The office is open 240 days a year.

Costs

Software License – EMR/PM license for the staff of five is $10,000. Productivity loss during the implementation and training period is estimated at another $10,000.

Hardware –1 Tablet PC for the provider, 4 workstations for the remaining staff and a Server. Tablet PC = $2,500, Workstation = $1,000, Server = $2,000.

Support & Maintenance – Ongoing support costs will be incurred from both an annual support contract with the software vendor for updates and technical support and the increased need of hardware/network support through a local IT representative.

Benefits

Improved Coding – Where down-coding and poor charge capture can both be improved through the EMR’s E&M Coding assistant. A study by Medical Economics magazine estimated that a physician who is regularly down-coding may be losing as much as $40,000 to $50,000 annually. A study done by Partners Healthcare System found an increase of 1.5%-5% in overall billing simply through improved charge capture. We will use a conservative improvement rate to factor in a reduction in down-coding, resulting in approx. $24,000 per year.

Transcription – For offices using a transcription service @ the industry standard of $300-$1000 per month.  We will use a conservative figure of $600 per month resulting in an annual savings of $7200.00

Chart Management - Chart Management costs can be reduced through lower chart creation costs, lower chart storage costs and fewer chart pulls. The cost to create a new chart is estimated at $7/chart and the cost to pull a chart is $5 according to industry standards.  For this example we will assume that there are 50 chart pulls per day including the 60% average for non-visiting patients.  We will use a conservative estimate for the cost of each chart pull @ $3 and assume that we will only reduce our chart pulls by 40% the first year and not be paperless for 2 years.

Prescription Refills – According to a study done by Journal of Healthcare Information Management, the time spent doing an Rx refill can be reduced from 15 minutes to 3 minutes.  At 20 refills per day, that would be savings of 240 minutes per day.

Cost Benefit Analysis Grid

American Medical Software – Simply The Best

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10 Reasons Why AMS is “Simply the Best”

Medical Practice Management: Software Solutions

Posted by AMS at 12 FEB 8:45 am

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