The Essential Ingredient to insure an effective EHR implementation

We believe that no one should be stuck with an EHR system that just isn’t working for them. Imagine being able to switch from any EHR to any EHR freely without losing vital patient data & encounter notes. The concept is unique, but with an overall national EHR failure rate over 60%, physicians need the option of selecting new products without the risk of losing their patient’s data. In fact, during the past three years, over 50,000 physicians have purchased a new Electronic Health Record (EHR) product for their medical practices. Once implemented, the EHR vendors have claimed that the average medical practice will achieve a quick return on investment by reducing the time spent looking for information by an average of 22%, improving coding and reimbursement by an average of 6.8%, and improving workflow throughout the medical practice. The EHR vendors have claimed that once automated, most medical practices could eliminate more than 92% of their internal paperwork and will be able to implement procedures to scan in more than 97% of paper that comes in from outside sources. However over the past five years, most medical practices have not realized the majority of the cost savings that were promised by the various EHR vendors. One reason for the lack of initial operational improvement and cost savings is the lack of discreet patient information in the EHR when the physician initially starts using the EHR software. In fact, once a medical practice goes live on the EHR, 99% of the patient’s clinical information is still embedded in an older EHR or in the patient’s paper chart, not in the new EHR. The reason, most EHR vendors do not offer adequate “data conversion” capability from one system to another is due to the complexities involved in discrete data conversions.