A baseball player has his entire career summarized on a baseball card. We will attempt to do the same thing here for Electronic Medical Records (EMR), Electronic Health Records (EHR) and Personal Health Records (PHR).
The HITECH Act calls for physicians to move from paper medical charts to EMR by 2014. Financial incentives and data management are at keys of this initiative, not the desire of most doctors. EMR is not a question of if or when.
EMR system adoption is a process, not just a product. EMR vendors once numbered in the hundreds. Massive consolidation is occuring. A EMR must show "meaningful use" as defined by CCHIT which itself may be replaced with private certification organizations.
Technology: Medical practices will have the opportunity to select either a traditional client/server EMR configuration, a web based model (ASP or SaaS) or a downloadable application streamed right to a tablet PC or iPad type device. OCR and voice features can offer patient convenience and physician efficiencies.
Estimation of the cost for a EMR system is just that-an estimate. Pricing varies wider and more often than the weather in Texas.
Successful EMR adoption and its use consists of scanning your current paper records, EMR selection and choices, compliance with time lines, secured financing, patient-physician communication portals and offering patients access to their complete Personal Health Records.
(vist the Glossar at My EMR Choice for definitions)
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