MPMsoft Selects PracticeSuite® Free EHR as Its Electronic Medical Records Solution
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When it comes to the issue of National Health Care one doesn't expect to hear much good news, but every now and then a little ray of sunshine breaks through and makes you think again. There's good news and there's good news, this is the latter.
1.4 million licensed healthcare givers can now use an end-to-end EMR/EHR and Practice Management system at minimal cost. Doctors can do their e-Prescribing, electronic charting, electronic labs, electronic document management - everything required to meet the 'Meaningful Use' standards laid down by HHS - at no cost to the doctor.
A company named PracticeSuite out of the Silicon Valley makes their comprehensive Electronic Medical Record (EMR) (http://www.practicesuite.com) and Practice Management Suite free to all licensed healthcare providers. So apart from the expense to get set up, and or to voluntary subscribe to additional services, there is no operating cost for all who have an NPI (national provider identifier).
There are however costs for others to be on the system, $35 a month per non-NPI user, but what's good about it is there's no forced advertising, no ad thresholds, no bait and switch, or privacy exposure; and it truly is completely free to the doctor.
Recently, the maker of the popular desktop medical billing software
(http://www.mpmsoft.com), MPM chose PracticeSuite as its EMR partner to provide free EMR to all its licensed healthcare providers. MPM owner Jim Muschetti states, "Our practices don't have millions to spend on EMR systems like AllScripts or eClinicalWorks; our clients are small and they watch their pennies. They're reluctant to spend a dime frivolously even in the best of times".
"Although we're supporting just under 5000 medical billing
(http://www.mpmsoft.com/billing/) users, the demand for EHR/EMR is clearly on the rise," says Muschetti. "Our doctors are requesting an EMR that is compliant with Obama's Stimulus Incentive which offers up to $64,000 to physicians using a comprehensive system in 2010. After looking at many systems, we decided that PracticeSuite was the best fit because it provides a completely integrated end-to-end system, which once set up, is free to our doctors."
"We feel that teaming up with PracticeSuite not only fills an important product gap related to Electronic Medical Records, but there is a huge upside in offering an EMR that includes free e-prescribing (http://www.mpmsoft.com/ePrescribing.htm) and free electronic lab results, but without the forced advertisements and the potential for privacy issues in the other free EMRs". "We feel that a large percentage of our small practices are holding off adopting Electronic Medical Records because the costs associated with implementing a comprehensive EMR system are in the stratosphere. 'Free' should make it more palatable for our one, two, and three doc practices to get on board."
A nine year study which began in 2001 shows that today, 43.7% of doctors are using some sort of software to chart their patient's medical treatment, but that fewer than 4% of all practices have a comprehensive end-to-end EHR solution, and the vast majority of this number are larger practices with more that twenty doctors; leaving fully 70% of the nation's medical offices significantly underinvested in technology, which is shown to be the surest way to increase efficiency and reduce costs in an industry hemorrhaging revenue.
The reason for the dismal adoption rate of EHR/EMR is easy to understand says Muschetti, "Incredibly high system cost, horribly complex systems that take a college degree to learn how to use, and the disruption that occurs during months of implementation, and sometimes with no success story in the end."
"Only a web-based approach is able to completely remove these barriers in that it offers an affordable, non-invasive way to adopt the EMR". "You start out using the free Scheduling (http://practicesuite.com/scheduling/) and e-Prescribing, and then once that's running smoothly you add in the electronic lab results and document management, and then lastly you add the treatment notes". "Somewhat pain free anyway" says Muschetti. "Over the next eighteen months, we anticipate a full half of our clients moving to an Electronic Health Records system". Learn more about medical billing and how to do it (http://www.eligibilityverification.net/medicalbilling.htm).
About MPMsoft:
MPM is a made for Windows practice management and medical billing (http://www.mpmsoft.com) software used by healthcare practices nationwide to manage their insurance claims and all aspects of patient billing. MPMsoft's appeal is its simple user interface that integrates front office appointment scheduling with back office medical billing, claims management, integrated clearinghouse (http://www.mpmsoft.com/EDI/clearinghouse.htm), patient accounting and practice management reporting. MPM's core billing technology is the engine that empowers numerous EMRs with the ability to process electronic claims.
About PracticeSuite
PracticeSuite is a free comprehensive Electronic Medical Record (http://practicesuite.com/EMR_complete/) (EMR) and Practice Management Suite that is offered at no cost to all licensed healthcare providers. Additional users (eg. administrative staff) cost thirty-five dollars per month to use the system and there are set-up costs associated with going live. PracticeSuite's free EMR (http://practicesuite.com/index.htm) includes free e-prescribing, electronic lab results, document manager, free scheduling, electronic claims, and collections module. PracticeSuite's platform-independent EMR & PMS is also available as a locally installed solution with traditional licensing.
Contact Information
Dana Chappelle
MPMsoft
(707) 226-1155
