Small physician practices inch closer to adopting electronic health records

Posted on Jun 30, 2010 in Records Management News

After dis­miss­ing it as too expen­sive for years, doc­tors in small or solo prac­tices are now closely eval­u­at­ing their options to buy sophis­ti­cated elec­tronic med­ical record-keeping sys­tems due to a com­bi­na­tion of gov­ern­ment pres­sures and new prod­ucts in the market.

How­ever, inde­pen­dent physi­cians remain in a tough spot — know­ing there are strong incen­tives to make the switch, but ner­vous about such a large invest­ment in a soft­ware sys­tem dur­ing tough times, par­tic­u­larly when the options are tough to sort through.

“You’ve got to start doing some­thing, but who knows which is the right one?” said Dr. Stephen Rock­ower, a part­ner in Capi­tol Orthopaedics & Reha­bil­i­ta­tion LLC, a four-doctor prac­tice in North Bethesda. “I tend to be one of the more computer-savvy peo­ple out there, and you know, I’m confused.”

Ven­dors have quoted prices from $24,000 to $120,000, and “they basi­cally all look the same,” he said.

Read more: Small physi­cian prac­tices inch closer to adopt­ing elec­tronic health records — Wash­ing­ton Busi­ness Journal

Anne Sommi Edmond­son, Direc­tor of Mar­ket­ing at Unifi Technologies

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Medial Protection Society of UK

Posted on Jun 23, 2010 in Records Management News

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