Organizations' recognition of the returns on
EMR technology will sustain market growth.
EMR Benchmark question: "How did the delay in defining MU affect company (
EMR developer) revenues in 2009?
Many providers (especially small practices) have yet to deploy an
EMR system, which means that focusing exclusively on
EMR integration effectively excludes a large portion of physicians from electronic order entry and results reporting.
However, fewer than 25% of the nation's hospitals have implemented
EMR to date.
Stick with paper records and forfeit all of the economic and clinical value of
EMR.
Often administrators start the
EMR vendor selection process by inviting vendors into their facilities to demonstrate their software systems.
In a properly executed
EMR all information is available at the clinician's finger tips without having to sort through a voluminous paper chart that may be incomplete.
While it may be many years before coordinators are able to set up a national
EMR system, states are taking initiative.
The letter concluded by noting that Metal Management experienced a significant run-up in its stock price after
EMR purchased significant shares.
Schwartz said Forte will continue supporting all DC-PowerNotes clients on their current edition software, but also offer existing DC customers the option to upgrade to Forte's suite of fully-certified
EMR software programs.
As the bulk of the market watches these dramas play out, waiting for standards and best-practice approaches to emerge, the time is now or never to examine the current packaged software approach to
EMR, make sure we understand why the market is heading down the current path, and dare to ask if there might not be other, less toilsome routes to achieving the benefits of data-driven clinical workflows and accessible, accurate electronic health information.
CPOE tools may be interfaced with
EMR systems to allow physicians to simultaneously enter new orders into the CPOE and
EMR databases.
