What to Look for in an EHR System for Multilocation Optometry

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What to Look for in an EHR System for
Multilocation Optometry Having multiple locations
for your optometry practice can have some massive
benefits you get more coverage area, more staff
with deeper expertise, saved money on service and
platform fees, increased efficiency, improved
performance, greater sales, and more. But
managing those multiple locations is also much
more complicated than running a single officer.
You have more complex scheduling needs, more
complex coding and billing needs, more phone
calls to field, difficulty with employee
scheduling, the possibility of offering different
products in different locations, and problems
with maintaining continuity across what could be
a broad geographic area. That is why your
electronic health record needs to be up to the
task. Electronic health records can streamline
key operations and save you time and money,
allowing you to offer more efficient care to your
patients while also automating certain tasks that
free up your staff from the need to engage in
tedious and repetitive work. While electronic
health record systems can have a host of benefits
for your optometry practice, multilocation
practices need to choose their optometry EHR
software carefully. Cloud-based EHR for
multilocation practices need many of the same
capabilities that those for single location
practices need as well as increased ability to
scale and offer EHR services simultaneously
across several offices. This blog investigates
cloud-based optometry electronic health record
software for multi-location practices and lets
you know what features you need to make sure any
system you chose has. Lets get started! What is
cloud-based EHR? Cloud-based electronic health
record systems are scalable tools that allow
practices to maintain patient files online
instead of on servers at a local health care
provider. The benefit of cloud-based EHR is that
optometry offices contract with these services
generally as a software-as-a-service model,
meaning that instead of buying, then installing
and maintaining a local EHR system, these
cloud-based tools are accessed using an internet
connection. This has several benefits. First of
all, optometry offices do not need to buy or
maintain expensive hardware and servers. Instead,
to gain access to the
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• electronic health record, all you need is a login
  ID, a password, and a device that can access the
  internet a desktop computer, laptop computer,
  tablet, or even a smartphone.
• Once online and logged in to the EHR, you get all
  the benefits of a traditional EHR and few of the
  drawbacks. There are tools for coding and
  billing, scheduling automation tools that save
  time, insurance verification tools, and more.
• Features to look for in a multilocation practice
  optometry EHR software
• First of all, when looking for an optometry EHR
  system, you will want to look for a few basic
  features no matter if you have one location or
  100. Those top features include
• Easy patient scheduling that saves you time and
  keeps your patients happy
• Smart patient workflows that make patient
  encounters easier
• and more rewarding for your staff
• Task management capabilities that help you
  clearly delineate who should be doing what
• Built-in templates and order sets
• The ability to create the reports you want
• EHR software solutions that are accessible from
  any device at any time
• A clear, attractive, and simple to use dashboard
• Now that we have got that out of the way, here
  are the key features to look for in an optometry
  EHR system for multilocation practices

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• allowing staff the ability to build reports with
  just a few mouse clicks.
• Varying permission levels It is inevitable that
  some of your staff will only need to be able to
  access EHR data for patients at one site, while
  others may need EHR data for all locations in
• one region or one state, and others will need
  access to everything. Permission is a much more
  complex task when
• your optometry practice has multiple locations
  ensuring you can fully customize your permissions
  when you have multiple locations is key.
• Sophisticated scheduling ability Scheduling can
  easily become complicated when you have multiple
  providers
• working at different locations at different
  times, or when one
• scheduler is managing scheduling for more than
  one location. Plus, when you have more than one
  office, your patients may wish to change the
  location of their appointment to better fit their
  schedule and preferences. Without a sophisticated
  EHR scheduling tool, you will wind up manually
  coordinating schedules between different
  locations a practice that exposes you to a much
  greater likelihood of mistakes.
• Synthesis with coding and billing operations
  With multiple
• locations, coding and billing can quickly become
  a mess, especially as patients move between
  offices, different insurance providers cover
  different exams and conditions, and some offices
  have a higher percentage of patients on public
  insurance. A smart EHR system for multilocation
  practices will handle coding and billing at
  different locations so that youre your
  operations remain smooth.
• Looking for a multi-location EHR for your
  optometry practice? Check out Eye Care Leaders
• Eye Care Leaders is one of the industrys leaders
  in intelligent EHR systems and optometry EHR
  software, with solutions that will work perfectly
  whether you have a one-person office or dozens of
  locations.
• Eye Care Leaders has a wealth of EHR tools that
  are designed to improve, enhance, and coordinate
  every aspect of your eye care practice, with
  solutions for practice management, ASC, EHR,
  retail management, revenue cycle management,
  patient payment collection, MIPS assurance, and
  more.
• To learn more, contact Eye Care Leaders today.