Practice Management Alert

Upfront costs could give way to savings in many areas. If you've been considering the switch to an electronic health records (EHR) system, you may have heard how one can improve the efficiency of your billing processes, but you might also be frightened by the significant upfront costs. So how do you balance the benefits with the expense? Follow our experts' advice on how an EHR might benefit the key areas of your practice. Weigh the Costs vs. Benefits EHRs are primarily a practice management tool used by physician and medical technicians. But when used to their full potential, EHRs can save you a lot of time on the billing side as well. On a basic level, an EHR (also sometimes called electronic medical records or EMR) is a computer-based system for storing, retrieving, and managing patient health records over a secure network. But you may also be able to [...]