Our Goal is To Make Your EHR Experience Flawless!

EHR systems have great promise to make care safer and more efficient. Stimulus funding for Meaningful can provide a financial bonus for using an EHR.

We have found that many physician practices have difficulty realizing those benefits, and we’ve seen a host of problems caused by EHR implementations:

Reduced quality of care

• Time spent “Feeding the EHR” is time you can’t spend with a patient.
• If each patient takes more time, and you can’t see as many patients a day; it takes longer for a patient to get a routine appointment.

Physician burnout

• Adds to physician time for each patient encounter.
• Many physicians report several hours a day spent after hours finishing up documentation. Night after night, that takes a toll on family life.

Financial loss

• Reduced patient load means less revenue. If you have to add 15 minutes per patient encounter to accommodate the EHR, your productivity goes down by 25% or more.
• Billing and coding are hard to use and revenue is lost

Meaningful use is an elusive goal for many practices

• Meeting all of the requirements takes so much effort, that the stimulus reimbursement may not be worth the costs to the practice

Why are those problems so common?

• EHR systems are usually designed by software engineers rather than physicians. They don’t fit well with what the physician needs to do.
• EHR implementations usually end when the “system works as designed”. Vendors don’t understand physician and office workflow issues well enough to customize either the software or your workflow to really get the promised benefits of the EHR.