MU Stage 2 Health care organizations and providers are faced with a crowded marketplace of over 500 vendors offering electronic medical records. We provide a simple, powerful online EMR software comparison tool, which helps you determine the best electronic medical records system for your specific needs. Answer a few questions here now and save a lot of research time in the future. Learn about features, implementation, and pricing for EMR systems that best match your [...]

MU Stage 2 This site is free to health care staff and providers evaluating systems for electronic medical records. We provide a simple, powerful online EMR software comparison tool, which helps you determine the best electronic medical records system for your specific needs. Answer a few questions here now and save a lot of research time in the future. Learn about features, implementation, and pricing for EMR systems that best match your needs. First, tell [...]

CCHIT continues to certify EMR companies for ONC-ATCB Compliance – which means they are meaningful use certified. They are certifying them for limited measures, often just for family practice measures, and then the EMR vendors follow up to receive certifications on the specialty-specific measures. As always, when comparing EMR software options, be sure to put your organization’s needs (patient care quality, efficiencies, etc) before the government’s meaningful use objectives. EMR Company EMR Technology ONC-ATCB Certified [...]

Compare EMR put out a thoughtful note regarding the current stimulus incentive dollars: EMR vendors are quickly scooping up Meaningful Use certifications on their systems. They know it’s not optional – it’s mandatory for their survival – so they are ensuring they get certified. This means that the certification is not the key to finding the right system. Obviously, it’s important to review costs when you compare EMR systems. But it is just as important [...]

Meaningful Use is the hottest buzzword in Health IT right now. The PCAST report (President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology) provided this summary: Recent Federal legislation has charted a new path forward. The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, a part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009, authorized expenditures of at least $20 billion to promote the adoption and use of EHR technologies that would [...]

When comparing EMR software solutions, keep in mind the need for interconnectivity with outside systems: local hospitals, labs, transcription services, and many other beyond those. It’s crucial that the vendors you are considering can currently accommodate exports and imports via interfaces. You will want to exchange at least demographics, labs, meds, allergies, problems. Beyond these interfaces, a bigger-picture plan is in the works from HHS. They are funding and planning projects to provide data pathways [...]