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Title: Memorial Hospital Quarterly Meeting


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Memorial Hospital Quarterly Meeting What to
look for in an EMR
  • Tips used at Dr. John Dormois Practice

2
What matters most in an EMR
  • It must improve your efficiency
  • Dont become a data entry person!
  • You should be able to access your charts from
    anywhere w/o downloading software.
  • Outside information from Pharmacies, Labs,
    Hospital and other sources should drop into your
    EMR.
  • Communicating patient information in your
    practice and to other providers should be simple
    and fast.
  • It should shift the focus of control back to you
    and your patients.

3
Improving Your Efficiency
  • Beware of the drop down box!
  • If you are required to document your encounter
    with drop down boxes you may be clicking 100
    times per note.
  • Look for systems that can
  • Import your existing transcribed notes into the
    EMR.
  • Build your templates within minutes not weeks.
  • Recycle the parts that you want from your
    previous encounter notes.
  • Utilize the patient to enter the subjective
    portion of the encounter information.

4
Anytime, Anywhere Access
  • Look for a web-based platform
  • Caution! Beware of the ASP (Application Service
    Provider). You will want to keep your data
    onsite.
  • Avoid systems that require you to download
    software on every remote PC.

5
Outside Information Connectivity
  • Standard functions to look for
  • Pharmacy Prescription interface
  • Major Lab interfaces
  • Automated incoming outgoing faxing
  • Make sure you can combine any EMR information for
    outgoing faxes some systems can only send
    static chunks of info.
  • Scanning to the EMR
  • Any external electronic file should be able to be
    viewed from the EMR. (Ex Radiology Images,
    Reports, In-patient Notes)
  • NOTE Look for systems that bundle these
    features in the base cost versus add-on costs!

6
Communicating Patient Information
  • You should be able to send any document to other
    staff members or to your patients.
  • The system should re-assign documents if a
    provider is out of the office.
  • More advanced systems allow
  • Communication with other practices using the same
    system.
  • Method for patient to share record with other
    providers.
  • Viewing capability to approved providers (eg.
    Hospital).

7
Reconnect Providers Patients
  • Take advantage of systems that are integrated
    with a Patient Portal
  • You will be able to
  • Get messages in the patients own words.
  • Avoid phone tag.
  • Send normal labs electronically avoiding phone
    call.
  • Reduce calls to the office and staff levels.
  • Patients will be able to enter the subjective
    findings which will auto-populate your note
  • Note Make sure your note is in prose and not in
    computer language!

8
Billing System Integration
  • Make sure the EMR can
  • Interface with your billing system,
  • Interface with your billing services system, or
  • Has its own billing system.

9
Future/Bonus Functions
  • Integrated Clinical Decision Making Tools will be
    helpful, especially for P4P.
  • Insurance pre-certification when patients
    schedule appointment online.
  • Online bill payment for patients.

10
Results at Dormois, LLP
  • Over 10,000 existing notes from MSWord imported
    into the EMR operational w/ EMR on day 1.
  • Paperless environment w/ rapid access to all
    patient eCharts.
  • Gained 1 hour per day while seeing the same
    number of patients .
  • Time savings from EMR has resulted in increased
    revenues with the same number of hours worked.
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