Doctors can track patient location from admission to discharge, access and share daily schedules and calendars, order labs, refill prescriptions, and more.

An April 2010 New York Times article, Doctors and Patients, Lost in Paperwork, says that an average physician spends as much time doing paperwork as he or she does with the patient.

“Paperwork, or documentation, takes up as much as a third of a physician’s workday; and for many practicing doctors, these administrative tasks have become increasingly intolerable, a source of deteriorating professional morale,” the article states.

The solution: a paperless practice, which isn’t a new phenomenon in healthcare. And there may be no better time to go paperless, given the current government push toward electronic medical records (EMRs). EMRs can help you document patient records electronically, and also makes communications much more efficient by allowing you to share patient records and send prescriptions with a single click.

The key is to select an EMR that helps, not hampers, productivity. A solution that forces you to spend the same amount of time as you would with a paper-based record is hardly an effective solution.

Consider gloEMR, one of the very first EMRs to be Stimulus certified through the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT).Through the dashboard that is the heart of gloEMR, doctors can track patient location from admission to discharge, access and share daily schedules and calendars, order labs, refill prescriptions, and more.

gloEMR is also unique in that it leverages several key Microsoft products, including Microsoft Office Word for text editing. Microsoft technology makes it easy to create practice-specific templates for routine encounters without expensive programming or training—which means your EMR improves productivity.

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