What is an Electronic Health Record (EHR)?

Electronic Health Records (EHR) help capture clinical encounters electronically, create secure, HIPPA-compliant, digitized patient records and a variety of other tasks within one centralized program, streamlining without disrupting existing provider and staff workflows.

How can using an EHR benefit my practice?

With a simple and efficient EHR system, you can: Avoid workflow disruptions caused by manual patient charts, cut down valuable time spent digging through hard-to-parse records, ensure stronger security surrounding patient info, streamline note taking and charting, and improve patient experience through increased engagement.

How does an EHR system improve patient care?

With physicians spending less time manually charting patients, writing prescriptions and accessing patient history, more time is invested where it matters – in caring for patients. Additionally, EHR software helps you: Reference previous notes, participate in increased interoperability, and boost patient to physician communication and vice versa.

What does it mean if an EHR system is “certified?”

“Certified” EHR systems meet these criteria:

• Meet certification standards from CMS and ONC
• Have a structured format to store data
• Include benchmarks to measure the quality of care
• Provides complete functionality of security

What is Meaningful Use/MIPS?

With the introduction of the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA), the Medicare EHR Incentive Program, commonly referred to as meaningful use, was transitioned to become one of the four components of the new Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS), which itself is part of MACRA.

MIPS harmonizes existing CMS quality programs (including meaningful use), the Physician Quality Reporting System, and Value-Based Payment Modifiers. MIPS consolidates multiple, quality programs into a single program to improve quality care. Learn more here.