We have nearly completed the process of transferring all of our records. I did not foresee when we started this venture, the problems that we would have, like our practice management software going down. We had to call for all the charts that we did not have because they were scanned. That does not happen too often thankfully, but those patients had an extra wait that day.
Perhaps the biggest problem is that medical software development company we are the only practice attempting to do this. We are at a clinic with several other practices. We do not have the resources necessary to convert everyone to EMRs. We would need a better system and cooperation from everyone to start a venture like that so we could completely get rid of charts for good.
Even with these minor problems, converting our office from paper to electronic medical records has helped out greatly. We have less filing and it has become much easier to prepare for the next day's appointments. In the next meeting, I am going to propose all of our doctors go to EMRs and then maybe word will spread that EMRs are the way to go.
