Many benefits will be evidenced once your practice begins using an EHR system. In no particular order:
- Improved trust and relationship between clinician and patient
- Enhanced patient satisfaction
- Enhanced public perception of the practice
- Practical support for patients in managing their health and making it simple to provide patient education
- Improving compliance
- Patients feel empowered to make decisions about their health
- More efficient use of consulting time to better meet patient expectations,
- Process efficiencies and reduced rework (fewer chart pulls)
- Minimize "under coding"
- Ease of chart audits
- Reduction in adverse drug events
- Enhance formulary compliance
- Improved compliance with clinical guidelines and evidence-based medicine
- Enhanced population-based care and disease management
- Reduced referral coordination time
- Potential for reduction in malpractice insurance premiums for carriers who offer an EHR incentive
- Increased opportunity for pay for performance or pay for quality
- Enhanced physician and staff recruitment
- Enhanced clinician and staff satisfaction
- Increased staff efficiency
- Reduced staff turnover due to increased efficiency and job satisfaction
- Enhanced care team communication
- Reduced re-submission of claims; prompter payment.
- Legibility of the health record reducing the opportunity for error
- Ability to concurrently review the chart
- Ability to remotely access chart information
In addition to the evidenced-based benefits, there are qualitative benefits as well:
- The ability to expedite many tedious work processes such as prescription writing and creation of chart notes, service administration, research, planning and audit, communication between patients and providers, fiscal governance
- Create new ways in which the health of our patients can be improved
- Improve cost efficiency due to raising demands of healthcare and the aging population
- Portability - travel, second opinions, working abroad, and distant working.