Patient Records -- Benefits

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It is clear that a new standard is emerging for medical records. The electronic medical record is a powerful new tool for improving the quality of care and enhancing office efficiency.

Practice Partner Patient Records offers a number of clinical and administrative benefits to help your practice:

Improves Clinical Efficiency, Patient Care, and Service

An EMR includes a number of features that allow the clinical side of the practice to operate more efficiently.
Patient Records users enjoy these benefits from their system:

  • Improves documentation quality (legible, organized, complete)
  • Facilitates better patient communication
  • Provides built-in protocols and reminders (including health maintenance)
  • Improves medication management
  • Enhances efficiency of signing of charts

Reduces Costs

The productivity and efficiency gains of an EMR translate into lowering the hard dollar cost of running a practice. Practice Partner customers report these as some of their cost benefits:

  • Reduces transcription costs
  • Lowers labor costs
  • Reduces internal/external copying expenses
  • Lowers malpractice insurance costs
  • Reduces pharmacy costs

Enhances Revenue

In addition to substantial cost savings, an EMR can positively impact the top line of a practice in a number of ways:

  • Improves the completeness of documentation
  • Improves coding accuracy
  • Increasing the number of services offered
  • Boosts the number of visits per day

Boosts Administrative Efficiency

Successful EMR sites are more efficient than traditional offices. As a result, the number of FTEs required to support physicians is lower than at paper based offices. Practice Partner sites report 2.0 to 2.5 FTEs per doctor, compared to the MGMA average of 4.0. These improvements can be attributed to the following:

  • Reduces chart pulls and less filing
  • Allows universal access to the chart (by more than one person at a time)
  • Eliminates time spent searching for lost charts
  • Reduces phone tag with patients
  • Improves internal office communication
  • Reduces call-backs from pharmacies
  • Improves compliance with chart requests and chart audits

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