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By now most physicians have been paid their first two years of meaningful use dollars in the amount of $30,000.00 per physician. What remains for these physicians is $12,000.00 each in meaningful use incentives since 68.2% of the incentives are paid in the first two years of the meaningful use attestation program. In several recent surveys it has been estimated that somewhere between 55-80% of physicians are making plans to dump their current EHR and replace it with another EHR.

With declining reimbursement being paid to physicians over the past ten years many clinics have struggled to maintain profitability. In order to offset the lower reimbursement, physicians have no choice but to increase the number of patients seen each day in clinic. In order for a physician to see more patients in clinic they must implement technology proven to increase efficiency.

Really, do you love your EHR? As it turns out, most healthcare providers spend more time with their EHR on a typical day then they do with their family. For the doctors and staff that don’t have MD Logic they face a day of drop down pick lists and mouse clicks throughout the day. In medicine time is everything and when technology slows you down it takes time away from patient care. MD Logic is different from every other EHR in the market.

Since the release of the first Apple iPad, MD Logic customers have been able to use touch screen tablets to access their patient health records. Since its inception in 1994, the MD Logic software has been engineered to run in a true “touch screen” environment making these tablets a “perfect” fit for MD Logic customers. As of 2013, there are now multiple options in tablets with many different manufactures offering these touch screen technologies.

In recent years there has been a great deal of marketing and press related to cloud based computing. In today’s healthcare market, cloud based computing has a smaller percentage of the market when it comes to implementing an electronic health records system. Across the board, the vast majority of healthcare providers have chosen a server based solution over cloud based computing.

In a recent survey consisting of new MD Logic customers, the clinics surveyed reported a 22% average increase in productivity as a direct result of implementing the MD Logic World Wide EHR™. Prior to implementing MD Logic many of these clinics were using a competitive EHR that simply were not designed to save time.

When it comes to managing electronic lab results, healthcare providers face an ongoing quest in utilizing e-Lab technology to manage patient care. With the High Tech Act in full swing it has been estimated that approximately 58% of doctors in the U.S. have adopted some type of electronic health record solution. Unfortunately for most physicians adoption of an electronic health record solution does not guarantee success or times savings in the management of electronic lab results.

It is hard to believe but it has been over 6 years since MD Logic released our innovative patient kiosk software. Since its release, hundreds of thousands of patients have successfully used the MD Logic Kiosk software to quickly touch a screen and provide their patient health history.

Physical therapists are a critical element in healthcare when it comes to positive outcomes associated with injuries. Without physical therapy patients would never reach the level of recovery provided by the care and expertise of these healthcare professionals. As insurance companies continue the trend to decrease reimbursement physical therapists have had to comply with a higher level of detail in their clinical documentation.

For the past 5 years, the Orthopedic Surgeons at Willis-Knighton in Shreveport Louisiana struggled to utilize their Electronic Health Record (EHR) software. This premier clinic, that provides state of the art Orthopedic care consisting of 16 Orthopedic surgeons, quickly found that templates and drop-down pick lists were not the answer for a high volume Orthopedic Clinic.

So the Federal Government decided to pay each doctor that implemented a certified EHR up to $44,000.00 per doctor. Since the government was picking up the tab, the majority of doctors did little to no due-diligence and simply purchased one of the first few EHR systems they reviewed. The attitude amongst the physician community was that all EHR systems were pretty much the same. This could not be further from the truth.

With the recent rush of Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems into the market, healthcare providers face the challenge of finding a system that is engineered to work with their specialty. Unfortunately, most physicians don’t know what to look for when investing in their first EHR. A recent study found that over 70% of doctors that have purchased a certified EHR are actively looking to replace their EHR. What doctors quickly realize is that not all EHR systems are engineered the same.