5 Common EHR Selection Mistakes  

Category: Practice Management

According to a recent Medical Economics EHR Survey, provider satisfaction levels have been as low as 78%, so I wanted to help our healers by reminding them of a few things that could lead them to a regretful EHR purchase:

1.Selecting a Rigid Platform:

The average clinician spends 25,000 hours of hands-on clinical training. For that reason, EHR vendors should stay out of your way, and let you be the expert, practicing according to the workflow you know best. Unfortunately, providers are complaining rather loudly about EHR vendors that force them to adhere their workflow to the EHR which is backwards. Therefore, regardless of your medical specialty, make sure you select an EHR vendor that gives you a choice between a low-cost on-boarding process that includes repurposing previously created templates for your specialty, or a higher-touch process whereby t...