Benefits

Better Workflow

• Dictate as usual
• No templates to manage or create
• Doctors are not transformed data entry clerks

Better access to data

• Never waste time looking for a paper chart.
• Open a patient's chart on any computer in the office.
• Allow two or more people to view the chart at the same time.
• Have clinical data at your fingertips when a consulting or referring physician calls.
• Open the patient's chart on a wireless computer when you see him in the hospital.
• Access a patient's chart online when he calls you at home at 2 a.m.

Better charting

• Never worry about illegible handwriting
• Have patients complete a computer-guided medical history at home or in your office that downloads into the EHR.
• Update medication lists at every visit.
• Import lab results, diagnostic images, and hospital discharge summaries into the patient's record.
• Tap thousands of procedure and diagnosis codes—far more than a paper facesheet can display.

Better prescribing

• Fax prescriptions from your computer to the pharmacy instead of handing them to patients, who might lose or alter them.
• Reissue prescriptions with a few mouse clicks.
• Identify all your patients who are taking a recalled drug within minutes.

Lower costs

• Eliminate positions for file clerks.
• Save several thousand dollars a year on paper-chart supplies.
• Spend less on postage by transmitting charts electronically.
• Build a satellite office without a file room.

Higher income

• Qualify for "pay for performance" bonuses by tracking the care you provide and the outcomes you achieve for various groups of patients.
• Capture all your charges automatically as you record what you do.
• Confidently code for higher levels of service based on thorough documentation.
• Get automatic suggestions for E&M coding based on your documentation