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Challenging Assertions

By Shahid N. Shah MS

As the physician executive of your medical practice, it’s your job to challenge any eMR vendors’ assertions about why you need an eMR, especially during the selection and production demonstration phase.

Information Availability [Anytime – Anywhere]

The most important reason for the digitization of medical records is to make patient information available when the physician needs that information to either care for the patient or supply information to another caregiver.

Electronic medical records are not about the technology but about whether or not information is more readily available at the point of need.

Reasons to Purchase?

In no particular order, the major reasons given for the business case of eMRs by vendors include:

• Increase in staff productivity
• Increase of practice revenue and profit
• Reduce costs outright or control cost increases
• Improve clinical decision making
• Enhance documentation
• Improve patient care
• Reduce medical errors

Assessment

So, doctors beware! Challenge vendor “authority.”

Editor’s Note

Shahid N. Shah is an ME-P thought leader who is writing Chapter 13: “Interoperable e-MRs for the Small-Medium Sized Medical Practice” [On Being the CIO of your Own Office] for the third edition of the best selling book: Business of Medical Practice [Transformational Health 2.0 Skills for Doctors] to be released this fall by Springer Publishers, NY. He is also the CEO of Netspective Communications, LLC.

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