Best EMR

[PainDoc123456]

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Any recommendations for cost effective and user friendly EMR for a new solo private practice?

Also any other general recommendations or suggestions for setting up a new practice also would be appreciated.

Thanks

 

[au bon pain]

Not: greenway, allscripts, mckesson

Maybe worth considering: ECW, Athena, Prognocis

This is in terms of user experience, I’m not aware of what they charge currently.

 

[camkiss]

I use ECW and like it. It’s about $800 a month for solo practice. Fairly intuitive as compared to Epic which I find difficult. It has PRISMA which trolls other EMRs for data. I can almost always get patient’s med rec through it, which saves time with old folks. They help you with MIPS and I assume will help with the Ambulatory model next year. Overall I’m fairly impressed with everything about it.

 

[Painologist]

I use ECW and like it. It’s about $800 a month for solo practice. Fairly intuitive as compared to Epic which I find difficult. It has PRISMA which trolls other EMRs for data. I can almost always get patient’s med rec through it, which saves time with old folks. They help you with MIPS and I assume will help with the Ambulatory model next year. Overall I’m fairly impressed with everything about it.

Second on eCW. It also has built in billing software. I find PRISMA useful as well as it often has information even epic careeverywhere doesn’t have. It is click heavy though and needs to be optimized.

 

[RoloTomassi]

Ecw. I've used most of the others mentioned above

 

[BoardingDoc]

Anyone use modmed? I have no experience with it but my practice is apparently going to be switching from Athena to it sometime within the next year.

 

[mille125]

I use ECW too

ECW is most common EMR for private practices.
Epic is most common for hospital based systems.

 

[runfastnow]

Anyone use modmed? I have no experience with it but my practice is apparently going to be switching from Athena to it sometime within the next year.

I've used ModMed for 5+ years in multi-specialty ortho group. Not bad, not great either. There is a new AI thing that is supposedly very impressive that is going live in March that hopefully will eliminate the need for scribe (if you have one) - will hopefullyfree up my LPN to do a lot of nurse tasks/phone calls.

Biggest complaint:
- Can be a lot of clicks/taps for whoever is doing the documentation. Can create protocols which handle a lot of the work though.
- No good way of tracking prior procedures - I have a work around but can be cumbersome.

Biggest compliment(s):
- Awesome at helping capture/maximize billing
- Simple visits or injection encounters (spine or joint) take 5 seconds to document/bill if you have a good protocol - i.e. my LPN can document ESI + run C-arm simultaneously and I sign note as soon as injection is complete and patient doesn't syncope on the way out of the room (haha).
- Fairly frequent updates that improve UI or speed up processes and seem to be responsive to requests for improvements that actually get implemented.

 

[BobBarker]

Ecw. We successfully navigated mips with their help. My wife is an elementary school teacher by training and she worked with the same person from eCW all year to do it.

 

[giddyup]

we use ECW now, used to use Athena. I liked athena better but it was getting more expensive so we switched