Your EMR Checklist

5 THINGS TO REMEMBER

When you choose the best EMR system for your practice, keep in mind the enormous role that this EMR platform will play in managing your practice. You’ll be putting a lot of trust in your system and expecting a lot in return. A truly efficient and effective system will help foster real relationships with your patients, referral providers, and even your own staff!

Here are the first five items to consider on your EMR checklist.

1. Patient Engagement AND Practice Management All-In-One

The key to any successful therapy and rehab practice is communication! Which leads us to another common pain point across clinics: The lack of integration between customer relationship management (CRM) software and EMRs. A comprehensive CRM can offer data-driven, integrated software features that improve the ability to interact with patients – an essential tool for offering patients digital communication options. Seeking a highly customizable platform that can seamlessly integrate with internal and external programs is a must.

Plus, therapists also need to consider how their EMR software can improve patient experiences. Now more than ever, it’s vital that practices are able to offer engagement options beyond in-office interactions that can provide the same level of care across the board.

2. POWERFUL RCM, Billing, And Collections

The effective success of any therapy and rehab practice depends, in part, on streamlined financial operations. But whether it be automated coding edits, claim scrubbing, or back-end billing processes, it can be easy to become overwhelmed when it comes to documentation, billing, and scheduling requirements.

So help your business gain more profitability and stimulate productivity by boosting revenue and optimizing workflow efficiencies through data-driven automation!

3. Clinical Documentation Made EASY

One of the biggest pain points of any therapy and rehab practice is lack of efficiency – in fact, 24% of providers that log over 25 hours of charting time after work hours are more likely to leave their organization due to workflow inefficiencies! With a system that hosts a variety of specialty-specific templates, notes, or charts in addition to documentation efficiency tools like voice-to-text, auto-correct, and more, selecting an EMR that delivers effective documentation tools can help take care of your patients, your staff, and yourself!

Take your search a step further by seeking a platform with additional features such as internal “report cards” to track improvement opportunities and task notification reminders that help therapists stay on track throughout the day – all in one easy-to-use provider dashboard.

4. Business Intelligence That Gives You COMPLETE Visibility

No matter which therapy specialty – every healthcare practice generates endless amounts of business and patient data that can be used to identify areas of growth and opportunity. Flexible business intelligence tools make it possible to take that information even further!

Make sure your business intelligence software (BI) aids in collecting patient information, analyzing data, and organizing information into reports such as:

Lead-to-patient reports
Interactive ROI calculations
Financial planning and analysis
Visit metrics like no-shows or cancellations

5. SIMPLE and SECURE Data Conversion

One of the most daunting challenges of implementing an EMR is safely and securely moving sensitive data to a new source. With an interoperable platform that seamlessly imports information from other databases and systems, you can be confident that your therapy and rehab practice has everything it needs to hit the ground running!