EMRs: Start Seeing the Benefit Now
Former national coordinator for health information technology, Dr. David Brailer, says over the long haul an EMR system could save the nation $200 billion to $300 billion a year by reducing duplications and errors that increase healthcare costs, reducing fraudulent claims, and helping to better coordinate care between physicians, hospitals and specialists. He says the idea is to create a more efficient workflow.
I have to say - Our customers have been "reducing duplications and errors that increase healthcare costs, reducing fraudulent claims, and helping to better coordinate care between physicians, hospitals and specialists" and creating more efficient workflows for a very long time. Does that mean they don't need an EMR if they use us, or if they transition to an EMR they won't need our technology? Of course not. One thing we've learned is that as healthcare applications are developed and implemented there is even more opportunity to automate workflow. In fact, the implementations of EMRs should open up the automation and integration markets as hospitals and clinics strive to take advantage of having patient information readily available to all healthcare constituents. Better healthcare - better business.
