Best EMR: Which is it?

What is the best EMR in the electronic medical record software industry? This is a question I get asked a lot in my day to day consulting with physicians. The reality is that its not all that complicated of an answer. Of the hundreds of vendors that are in the industry, very few can actually compete in the top 10 given the incredible amount of R&D that is required in order to develop and maintain an EMR. This is even more difficult to do since the creation of governing bodies such as CCHIT, that have significant certification costs.

So what is the best EMR software in the industry?

I tell most of my small to medium sized practices to look at eClinicalworks or PrognoCIS. I know both companies very well after years of coaching physicians through the EMR selection process. Of the pool of 10-15 different products that these physicians would often view, these two products came out on top the most. Of course there are many other good products on the market such as Greenway, E-MDs and Practice Fusion - I have the most confidence in eClinicalworks and PrognoCIS.

You can read EMR Software Reviews on my website Health Technology Review.

Electronic Medical Record Doc Directory Shows Who’s Putting Healthcare Online

The Internet has transformed communication worldwide, and these changes have affected how we do business as well as manage tasks in our daily lives. People use the Internet to work, do banking, pay bills, make phone calls and watch movies or TV – so it’s no wonder that they’re interested in making their daily routines even more convenient by bringing even more tasks online.

But while even the public library has gone online, one field has been surprisingly resistant to adopting internet technology: healthcare. The vast majority of physicians, hospitals and healthcare professionals are still using paper charts, paper medical records, a classic paper filing system and outdated methods of billing. Electronic medical record technology offers a way to take records and billing online and allows healthcare offices to send patient information instantly, which greatly improves patient care. Some offices have even implemented patient login portals on their websites, which allow patients to request appointments and prescription refills or even chat live with their doctors online.

So if the technology exists, why haven’t more doctors implemented the new system? Many cite the inconvenience of learning a new system or the cost of implementing electronic medical records. Patients, however, are demanding that healthcare mold to new technologies and be as accessible as their bank accounts over the internet. Electronic medical record software and consulting company EMRapproved recognizes this and has created their Tech Savvy Doc Directory – an online listing of doctors who use EMR technology in their practices. It allows patients to search by specialty and location to find a physician near them who incorporates EMR and other medical technology. Patients who are demanding more are starting to see solutions, and hopefully more physicians will adopt EMR as they realize how important it is.

You can learn more about EMR at my website www.healthtechnologyreview.com by reading the FREE eBook on Electronic Medical Records.

Source article about Electronic Medical Records

Older women seeking pregnancy more than ever

Robyn, our on-staff nurse and medical content writer wrote a particularly interesting post titled the Rise of Pregnancy in Older Women May Have Societal Impact. The post discusses the trends in women seeking to get pregnant much later in life as women are generally putting off having kids until later in life, for a variety of reasons. At the same rate Generation Y'ers are getting married later, so what will that mean for women seeking to get pregnant in 30 years from now?

Center for Human Reproduction, a client of ours is a infertility and ivf clinic that specializes in older women pregnancy. They published a press release today about Pregnancy in Older Women stating that the medical industry and society are completely unprepared for where this growing trend is taking us. "Medicine is not ready to manage pregnancy in older women safely and society is not ready to help them cope with older motherhood.", says Dr. Norbert Gleicher from the Center for Human Reproduction. This topic has become even hotter as of late since the New Yorker magazine published a lengthy story about it, with an elderly women in a nude "Demi Moore" pose featured on the cover.

Rx Medical Web formerly known as Empire Essentials Marketing and still following the leader...

Following up to an earlier post I made a few months back about a new web design company that entered into the medical industry and decided to flat out copy my company's website (www.medicalwebexperts.com) site structure, targeted keywords and even content. Well since then this company changed their name. Formerly known as Empire Essentials Marketing this new brainchild is now Rx Medical Web (www.rxmedicalweb.com). From what I can tell this isn't even their actual company name, maybe its a DBA, but in any case they're probably planning on changing it again at some point as it seems they don't really want to get creative and build a website with their own ideas.

(I'm still flattered by the way. Maybe even more flattered as our site must be so good that even though they know that we know that they copied our site they still can't help but keep on copying.)

Outside of general similarities and jumbled content, here's the most striking similarity:

Rx Medical Web Footer - 10/13/2011

Medical Web Experts Footer - 10/13/2011

Lets see how things pan out for this operation. Either way, its a long climb up Rx Medical Web!