Accelerated Medical Practice Blog

When you look at the typical project plan for an EMR implementation, the clinical components are typically the focal point: template selection and customization, physician training, clinical workflow, etc. Automating the charge capture and coding elements are usually placed at the bottom of the work list and may never be fully implemented. This gap in implementation planning often results in practices being forced to produce costly, manual workarounds as needed. This is a dangerous financial hazard...

When many EMRs were originally designed, charge capture and coding was not a major design objective. As an ancillary feature and benefit of EMRs—untested in the real world—that EMRs could replace the superbill began to appear in sales presentations. 

"Mind the gap" is a warning for passengers to take caution while crossing the gap between the train door and the railway platform. Introduced in 1969 on the London Underground, this warning also serves physician practices well as they pursue the important goal of implementing an electronic medical record (EMR). 

There seems to be somewhat of a disconnect between the functionality that EMR vendors are currently developing and what customers want. Much of the development investment made by EMR vendors for the next 3-5 years will be driven heavily by functionality that helps physician practices qualify for meaningful use. While that is certainly important, we wonder about the efficiency of significant software development dollars being allocated on the basis of what bureaucrats or lobbyists are able to agree upon.

Speed is in the eye of the beholder, particularly when the “beholder” is a busy physician!

White Plume Technologies is the ingenuity leader in physician practice acceleration.

Some healthcare technology vendors over promise and under deliver. White Plume strives to under promise and over deliver.

White Plume Technologies fits very nicely in the middle of electronic health records (EHRs) or electronic medical records (EMRs) and practice management (PM) systems. 

This is a difficult time for practice administrators as you attempt to navigate your way to the future. Many practices have made significant financial investments in existing practice management and EMR systems. Some practices are now making additional new investments in those technologies by replacing an existing EMR.