How to Overcome the Hidden Barrier to EHR Adoption & Meaningful Use

With new government mandates, and the promise of financial incentives, more and more physicians are feeling the pressure to adopt Electronic Records systems in their practices.

While you have likely heard of the potential of these systems to offer real benefits — by reducing your practice costs, increasing the speed of reimbursements, and enhancing your practice’s productivity — you also undoubtedly have heard “horror stories” of practices that experienced just the opposite.

Although some practices have made the transition relatively smoothly, others have struggled with implementation delays, productivity slowdowns, unexpected costs, and marginal outcomes. Clearly there’s a big difference between simply investing in a system and gaining real benefits from the technology.

What Makes the Difference?

It goes without saying that you need to select the right system for your practice, and you need the right training and support to get the system installed, your patient data transferred, and your EHR up and running. But if that’s all that’s needed, then practices buying systems from the same vendor and getting the same level of training from the same implementation teams and consultants should experience the same results, correct?

Unfortunately that frequently isn’t the case.

The fact is, there’s more to a successful Electronic Records system implementation than simply investing in the right technology. There’s more to it than just taking advantage of training programs, consultants, and technical support.

Something else is needed — and the presence or absence of this essential third factor is what frequently makes the difference between practices that reap the full benefits from their systems and practices that don’t.

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