Why Upgrade?
8 Benefits of Full EHR for Your Practice
If you’re still using a Practice Management (PM) system, upgrading to a fully integrated Electronic Health Record (EHR) system can transform your practice. The benefits of a full EHR system are clear: it gives you a complete view of each patient’s data, streamlines workflows, and cuts down on administrative tasks. With better access to records and built-in decision support, your team can make faster, smarter decisions for every patient.
Better Patient Care
A fully integrated EHR gives you a complete view of a patient’s medical and financial history. This helps you make informed clinical and administrative decisions, ultimately improving patient outcomes and streamlining your practice’s operations.
Cybersecurity
Separate systems linked through interfaces or direct data entry create more vulnerabilities and increase the risk of a data breach. Multiple systems require more IT oversight, more complex workflows, and more potential points of risk.
Reduced Errors
Separate systems can increase errors, such as data entry typos, transfer mistakes, or missing information. Fewer errors lead to more efficient billing and better patient care and safety. When users have to learn different systems, they’re more likely to make mistakes and data entry errors.
Lower Cost
One of the key advantages of upgrading to a full EHR is cost savings, as it eliminates the need for separate systems – which often come with separate fees and no bundled pricing options or discounts. You’ll also need more IT resources to build and maintain interfaces, VPNs, or other IT requirements.
Enhanced Care Coordination
With a full EHR, sharing patient data across multiple care settings becomes easier, improving care coordination and ensuring continuity of care for complex patients. It also simplifies sharing with Health Information Exchanges (HIEs). This improves communication and coordination, especially for patients with complex medical needs.
Employee Retention
Learning new software can be challenging for new employees. Onboarding becomes even harder when dealing with separate clinical and billing systems. The fewer systems a new hire has to learn, the more likely they are to succeed in their role.
Seamless Integration
The learning curve for new employees is much shorter with a fully integrated EHR, which consolidates both clinical and billing systems into one unified platform. A full EHR lets you seamlessly transfer data from patient registration and scheduling to clinical documentation and billing. It prevents data from slipping through the cracks and reduces the need for extra administrative oversight.
Reduced Revenue Leakage
Azalea’s fully integrated EHR ensures a smooth flow of billing data from clinical documentation. This eliminates the need for costly, hard-to-maintain interfaces – or manual data entry, which often lead to missed charges, lost revenue, or delays.
Conclusion
Upgrading from a PM system to a fully integrated EHR offers a comprehensive view of patient data, enhancing both care and efficiency. Unlike separate, best-of-breed solutions, a full EHR streamlines workflows, improves care coordination, and cuts down on administrative tasks. With easier access to patient records and built-in decision support tools, your team can make quicker, more informed decisions, ultimately improving both patient outcomes and overall practice productivity.
