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...
Tags: charge capture, EMR, EMR Gap, EMR selection team, healthcare technology, medical coding, physician's clinical exam, PM System, practice management system

