Electronic Health Records Companies Baton Rouge La

An electronic medical record(EMR), also known as an electronic health record(EHR) or Computerized Patient Record (CPR) is a patient's medical information in an electronic format. This medical information is accessible via computers on a network, to provide health care and health-related services.

An unforeseen benefit of the EMR software industry, which emerged as a means to help physicians deal with new federal regulations, has been patient empowerment. Patients are now able to download medical records onto flash drives that go with them wherever they go-giving them more choice in selecting a medical care provider. No longer are patients required to physically move records from one practice to the other when changing doctors; no longer do patients who wish to see a new doctor have to wait on the new practice to acquire their old records. And no longer do practices have to spend time waiting on a patient's old doctor to fax over records.

Make sure you get a more exact estimate from your vendors by calculating the ROI. This is more exact than a Cost Benefit Analysis. Depending on how the product is utilized, many physicians have realized savings of between nothing and ,000 per year.