What a difference a single letter makes Over the past few years medicine has witnessed Healthcare IT companies re-label their Electronic Medical Records (EMR) as Electronic Health Records (EHR), and then market them to practicing physicians as ‘new and improved’. Countless EMR companies have followed suit, and now it seems just about everyone is calling
AAFP Physicians Give Praxis EMR Highest Rating when Switching EHRs; Black Book Ranks Praxis Number One Overall in Solo and 2-5 Physician Practices Praxis EMR, an award-winning developer of electronic medical records (EMR/EHR) software received the highest satisfaction ratings in two major physician-user surveys released independently by the AmericanAcademy of Family Physicians (AAFP) and Black
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Richard Low, MD, Founder and CEO, Praxis Electronic Medical Records presents: “Health IT: ‘I’ for Intelligent, not Incomprehensible.” This is a healthcare conference sponsored by Yale Alumni Association and Portland InterHospital Physicians Association held on September 26, 2015 in Portland, Oregon. http://yaleclubor.org/healthcare/
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A recent survey by Software Advice, in collaboration with Research Now Healthcare, found that many of the most common concerns for prospective EHR buyers are no longer such overwhelming problems for current users. The ongoing survey has collected responses from over five hundred EHR users to date. The results show that 58% of users had little
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The EHR Software BuyerView 2014 Report, Software Advice Source: The EHR Software BuyerView 2014 Report, Software Advice According to a recent study on 385 randomly selected medical practices by Software Advice, Inc., 40% of EHR buyers are looking to replace their EHR. The desire for better technical support and more integration between applications ranked among
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The rise in provider dissatisfaction with EHRs and the second-time buyer boom have been well-documented and much-discussed. However, when analysts look to understand the cause of this dissatisfaction, they identify only superficial reasons: lack of training, workflow issues, price, or poor customer support, to name just a few. They fail to look deeper and miss
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For the first time in our 20-year history, Praxis EMR was a first-time exhibitor at the HIMSS Conference & Exhibition in New Orleans March 3 – 7, 2013. The Exhibition was an amazing opportunity to share our unique technology with attendees. We had fascinating conversations about what EHR usability really means, and how to use
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We are excited to introduce Choosing the Right EHR, a blog series on the many factors to consider when purchasing EHR software. The EHR market is changing rapidly: companies are appearing and disappearing, federal requirements are changing, and technology continues to evolve. Recommendations that were helpful five, three, or even one year ago no longer
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Until a few years ago, billing applications took advantage of doctors’ lack of familiarity with EHRs to sell “integrated solutions.” According to this marketing pitch, an EHR is better and more effective when it contains all of the functions needed in a clinic, including billing and other administrative task management. Although it sounds attractive at
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It is widely thought that because computers are machines, they are objective tools. Indeed, this is the perspective that leads many of our colleagues to unconditionally trust EHR software systems: unlike a human being, they think, the computer will make always make the right decision- we programmed it to do so. This viewpoint misses the
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