A while back I wrote something about why having an EMR or EHR consultant could be beneficial to a doctor looking to implement an EHR. Here’s the first part of a five part series on reasons why I think a well qualified, experienced EMR or EHR consultant is valuable. The first part is how an EMR or EHR consultant helps with the selection process.
EHR Selection Process
By first evaluating a doctor’s needs and preferences EHR consultants are able to eliminate a majority of the EHR companies and provide doctors with a short list of high quality EHR vendors to evaluate. By providing a smaller pool of EHR vendors, doctors are more comfortable with the selection process and don’t get discouraged seeing hundreds of EHR vendors that don’t meet their needs. EHR consultants also help doctors through the evaluation process. EHR consultants often provide a list of questions that can be used to evaluate EHR vendors. These questions have been designed to tease out information which will better enable doctors to select the right software. EHR consultants also assist doctors that need help negotiating with EHR vendors. These services include requesting enhancements to meet doctor specific needs or even ensuring that EHR vendor pricing is comparable to other EHR implementations.
When it comes down to it, a good EHR consultant can save a doctor large amounts of time and money that would have been wasted looking amongst the hundreds of EHR companies. It’s not hard to say that doctor’s most precious commodity is time.
See other parts of Benefits of using an EMR/EHR Consultant:
Benefits of Using an EMR/EHR Consultant – Selection Process
Benefits of Using an EMR/EHR Consultant – EMR Training
Benefits of Using an EMR/EHR Consultant – Clinical Process Mapping
Benefits of Using an EMR/EHR Consultant – Comprehensive Technology Support
Benefits of Using an EMR/EHR Consultant – Improved Clinical Buy-in
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I agree with your views about the value of an experienced EHR/EMR consultant. I personally am working as an EMR consultant & as the owner of an IT company I plan to specialize & expand in this area.
However, the major hurdle I face in this area is the the interaction with the EMR Software vendor. The doctor’s office are not aware of the software glitches / bugs / issues & a lot of time is spent waiting for responses from the EMR Vendors. Also I am not sure if they would encourage the idea of an EHR/EMR consultant cause it would bite into their own training revenues.
Do you have any ideas about this ? Also are you aware of any other people / companies doing this ? I am handling a couple of doctors offices EMR solutions & need to expand in the right manner.
Thanks
Alefia
Many EMR vendors like to have a well informed consultant working to implement their systems. If they grow fast enough, they often can’t get enough well trained people to handle their training dept so a well conditioned EMR consultant can be a great asset to an EMR company that’s seeing tremendous growth.
There are A LOT of companies doing what you describe. More and more IT companies getting into EMR each day. So much so that I’m just getting started with a list of the IT companies that focus on EMR: https://www.healthcareittoday.com/healthcare-it-service-companies/
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