Electronic Medical Records is the inevitable next step in the continued progress of healthcare. Successfully implementing an EMR allows a practice to replace its paper charts, offering tremendous productivity and efficiency benefits. An EMR is one of the best business and quality of care investments that a practice can make.

Which EMR is the best?     

EMRs come in a variety of appearances, workflow and output. Unlike practice management systems that are rooted in generally accepted office practices for scheduling, billing, collecting and reporting, the process of charting patient visits can vary widely between medical offices and specialties. The requirements for electronic medical charting have only been solidified over recent years with the coming of HIPAA rules and regulations which are becoming effective in the year 2003. The 'best' EMR for a particular practice will have the following features:

• The practitioner will be able to adapt the vocabulary of the system (which includes whatever templates and outlines are used) to their dialogue and workflow.
• The system will enable the practitioner to document all significant aspects of the patient encounter is an efficient amount of time. An EMR system that can be operated efficiently with a relatively short learning curve is a factor in this. 
• The system will save steps in the patient management process (by eliminating the duplication of data entry between the EMR and the practice management system).
• The system will enable the practice to perform meaningful outcome analysis of data to aid in the quality and efficiency of patient care.
• The data will meet all of the requirements of HIPAA as to security of patient data.

CySolutions role in providing an EMR system to a practitioner.

We have access to, and have evaluated, over 30 different EMR systems, all of which integrate to the Centricity Physician Office Practice Management™ , including the Centricty Physician Office Electronic Medical Records (formerly Logician) to achieve the EMR objectives outlined above. Some of those EMR's are better suited to certain specialties over others. We spend time to evaluate your practice's needs and goals so that we can recommend the product best suited for your specialty and the practitioners that will use the system. We install and support all of the EMR's that we recommend in order to provide you with one source of information and one place to turn for all of your information system needs.