Are you Still Confused to Choose a right EHR for you?

Introduction If you're still weighing the pros and cons of an electronic health record (EHR) purchase, consider this: Forget about going to an EHR because the government may or may not force you to comply. Think of improving your practice and perhaps your quality of life with the benefits of an EHR. Your coding compliance will increase. You'll have access to data about your practice and patients that would be impossible with a paper chart. An EHR will have a major impact on your practice and the way that you currently triage patients in the office. Here are common scenarios in offices without an EHR: A paper chart is expensive to produce and you can never seem to find it when you need it most. A chart audit will most likely confirm that your documentation does not add up to the code reported. In my chart reviews I find that physicians are either under coding or under documenting services performed and that approximately 30% of handwritten charts are not compliant.

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