I am a disbeliever in EMR. We are not in the age of Star Trek just yet. The main purpose of EMR is so that the Govt. can mandate and request Physician-Patient records on convenient disks. EMR requires Way more valuable physician time. They are filled with NEW errors, because unless the Physician personally corrects (very time consuming) the machine dictations themselves, there would be way more errors in the system. These errors will look official, because they are printed, instead of handwritten by the Physician. Noone seems to understand that any savings is sacrificed by addition time spent by the Physician or the Physician practice. EMR should be totally voluntary, and only if in the best interest of the individual practice. They should work best for large practices, that can afford to have their own IT person/people. Noone asked the opinion of Physicians before this was implemented. Physicians want to keep the convenient Paper Charts that are Sooo easy to follow. Practices using EMR waste massive time Scanning documents all day. In summary, any benefits to the system are being passed onto physicians as they are spending extra time. There should be NO MANDATES, especially for small practices. The current legislation calls for a 4% reduction in Medicare payments if not implemented by 2014! We will drop out of Medicare or retire if that happens. Read more...

We had a presentation with next gen last week. It was very impressive 2 hour presentation. We are also looking at GE centricity, MkKesson Practice Partner and GEMS. For a 9 MD Cardiology single speciality practice. Any comments ar advice will be appreciated Read more...