Coming Soon: Physician Resource Directory - New Service on CanadianEMR
Posted Oct 30 2008 3:21pm
Over the past two months we have been hard at work developing what we believe will be a very useful service for physicians, practice managers and companies that support and serve the EMR-based practice. The Physician Resource Directory. In the past two years there has been a fundamental shift in the level of physician interest in EMR systems. While not too long ago physicians were asking “Why?”, they are now more likely to be asking “How?”. With our intense focus on providing resources to help physicians answer the “How?” question, we recognized physicians will increasingly have a need to purchase additional products and services related to their decision to implement an EMR system. There is an eco-system that surrounds every medical practice and extends well beyond the actual computer and EMR software. It is this need that we are focusing on.
In May we announced the results of a survey we conducted of our users:
The results from the 166 responses are broken down into three main categories, Physicians considering an EMR (33% of respondents), Physicians currently using an EMR (62% of respondents) and Practice Managers (5% of respondents).
All respondents to the survey showed a strong interest in a variety of hardware categories, ranging from Monitors at 74% to Computers, Laptops and Tablets at 81%. Other categories of interest include Network Installation (73%), Internet Access (72%), Services surrounding medical charts (69%), Support for home access to EMR systems (67%) and Dictation and Transcription software/services (63%);
Physicians considering an EMR had a greater than average interest all of the hardware categories (on average 10 percentage points higher), but a lower interest in services surrounding management of paper charts (58%). These results indicate that first time EMR buyers have not yet been exposed to the challenges of management, storage and destruction of paper medical records which are seen as a significant burden by physicians who have already adopted an EMR;
Physicians currently using an EMR had the most interest in services surrounding paper medical records (77%), followed closely by a number of hardware categories;
Practice Managers had similar category interests to the Physicians considering an EMR, however 100% wanted more information on computer hardware, laptops and tablet PCs and 71% wanted more information and services to assist with the installation and support of Networks in a physician office.
The Resource Directory will reflect these preferences and will allow searchers to sort and customize their view of vendors and services in order to make it as easy as possible to appropriately identify what you need for your practice or group.
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Over the past two months we have been hard at work developing what we believe will be a very useful service for physicians, practice managers and companies that support and serve the EMR-based practice. The Physician Resource Directory.
In the past two years there has been a fundamental shift in the level of physician interest in EMR systems. While not too long ago physicians were asking “Why?”, they are now more likely to be asking “How?”. With our intense focus on providing resources to help physicians answer the “How?” question, we recognized physicians will increasingly have a need to purchase additional products and services related to their decision to implement an EMR system. There is an eco-system that surrounds every medical practice and extends well beyond the actual computer and EMR software. It is this need that we are focusing on.
In May we announced the results of a survey we conducted of our users:
The results from the 166 responses are broken down into three main categories, Physicians considering an EMR (33% of respondents), Physicians currently using an EMR (62% of respondents) and Practice Managers (5% of respondents).
The Resource Directory will reflect these preferences and will allow searchers to sort and customize their view of vendors and services in order to make it as easy as possible to appropriately identify what you need for your practice or group.
To add your thoughts or comments, click on the 'Comments' link