The EMRs You Don’t Hear About

The best-known EMRs got that way because they target the masses. About a third of the country’s physicians focus on primary care, with the remainder fragmented across dozens of specialties and subspecialties. It’s easy to see, then, why the major EMRs are primary-care centric. For specialists, the solution is often to use a general EMR and tailor it, with templates and other features, for the field’s common diagnoses and treatments, as well as its workflow. The question is whether the customization is enough. After all, the practice of, say, a nephrologist, who focuses on kidney ailments, doesn’t look much like that of the average family practitioner. And that’s not even considering other health care providers, such as optometrists, who aren’t MDs but who are eligible for meaningful use incentives all the same. Some providers, then, choose a single-specialty EMR. Sometimes it’s a specific product from a larger health IT company. In other cases, it’s software from a vendor operating in but one niche. Here are a few specialties with very specific practice patterns and the vendors who serve them with EMRs and practice-management software. Nephrology. Physicians in this specialty deal with conditions and treatments such as kidney stones, hypertension, renal biopsy and transplant. A major part of the workflow is dialysis. One vendor catering to this specialty is Denver-based Falcon, which claims that its electronic notes transfer feature can “bridge the gap betw...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Tags: EHR Electronic Health Record Electronic Medical Record EMR EMR Selection EMR Technology Healthcare HealthCare IT Meaningful Use Practice Management EHR Companies EHR Selection EHR Software EHR Stimulus EHR Vendor EHR Vendors Source Type: blogs