Tips to Help Plan for EHR even Before you Pick One

The goal of buying an EHR or any other type of medical software is to improve the efficiency of your practice for you, your employees, and your patients. Keep this in mind while selecting medical software that it can help you avoid making rash decisions that may look good on paper but don't provide your practice with more capabilities or increase the quality of care you provide to your patients.

You might not want to jump blindly into an EHR no matter how many incentives you are offered, but you can be quite sure you will use one. To transition to an EHR, certain steps must be taken. The good news is you can do a lot now to ease the eventual implementation of medical software, even if you are years away from making that decision about your EMR / EHR software.

Here are some ideas for getting started with your implementation even if you don't know which EHR system you'll use.

You can follow these steps to make the transition to an EHR as easy as possible, and they should give you some insight into choosing the right one. It is unrealistic to expect an EHR to change all aspects of your practice workflow - and you do not want to. You need to adhere to the demands of your practice, when reasonable.

Lastly and most importantly, you need to work with your staff as a team so that when you find the best EHR you will have a team of invested, able people who want you to make the best use of your investment in time, money, and effort.