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We are getting ready for our second year.
We're actually in our 90-day reporting period, so.
One of the things
we're implementing is a patient portal.
We're making sure that we've got the smoking cessation
and making sure all the boxes are checked,
making sure that we are able to transfer medicines from care
from at the hospital to the office,
to the nursing home, to specialists.
Our billing system's integrated and linked to the chart.
It starts from the moment the appointment is made,
to the time when the nurses bring back the patient
into the room, to our visit,
then, when we're signed off, it links right to the billing
and it goes out through a clearinghouse,
so it's a fully integrated system.
The electronic records makes the office actually more efficient.
I'm able to follow guidelines a lot better,
able to review medicines a lot easier,
and I'm able to pull up information on the patient
that makes my job easier, to know when I need
to do something, when I need to ask about something,
and also check for interactions between medications,
and it just makes my job easier, with electronic medical records.
The best advice I could give is
look at several different vendors, to begin with.
And look at the approved list,
look at who's already qualified for it.
Make your job easier. Don't go with one that's not approved.
And then, as you start to narrow your list down
to one, to two or three, talk to people who have systems in,
you know, find out what works, find out what doesn't.
And then don't go with someone who's not willing to come
to your office to show you the system in place.
As for going with the EHR incentive program,
I would definitely do it.