Primary Care Electronic Medical Records (EMR) and Practice Management (PM) software has been designed to meet all the administrative, financial and clinical workflow requirements of physician practices. It caters to both the administrative and curative needs of the practice. It is a digital online database that increases the efficiency of practices so that they can provide quality care to the patients. The main purpose of Primary Care Software is to help practitioners and their administrative staff manage the business side of their work more effectively and efficiently.  It allows them to give more time to the patients rather than indulging in tedious admin work.

Main features of Primary Care EHR Software

Before adopting a top Primary Care EHR software, you should make sure that the software has the following key features:

Data Documentation – Primary Care EHR software must be able to keep the detailed history of the patients in the database. It helps the physicians in making better decisions during the process of treatment.

Patient Correspondence Forms – Primary Care EMR software must have a patient correspondence feature. It allows the practices to access various forms of correspondence which include excuse letters and checkup reminders etc.

Notes & Templates – The Primary Care Electronic Health Records (EHR) software must have enough templates to work on and also the note-taking feature which allows the physicians to keep a record different stages of the patients’ treatment.

Lab & Device Integration –Primary Care software should allow automated importing of lab tests and their results. Integration with pharmacies helps the physicians to send the prescriptions directly to the pharmacists.

Billing & Reimbursements – Primary Care software must provide an efficient billing and reimbursement service

Patient Scheduling – Primary Care EHR Software must be able to schedule patient appointments and it should offer customization to make any kind of changes in the appointments.

Alerts & Reminders – Primary Care EHR Software must be able to send automated reminders to patients through emails or text messages. This helps both physicians and the patients in doing their respective tasks.

Top 10 Primary Care EMR & PM Software By EMRSystems

Research by EMRSystems found the following Electronic Health Records software companies to be the leading vendors to have developed and introduced Primary Care EMR & PM Software:

Make sure the software you’re going to purchase is certified. For Primary Care Software, the certification you should be looking out for is by the ONC-Authorized Testing and Certification Body (“ONC-ATCB”). They are responsible for making sure your vendor meets Meaningful Use objectives and is HIPAA compliant. It is highly imperative that the software you choose is compatible with that of the rest of the practice and with the existing EMR Software if you are opting for a stand-alone option. Please do consult your provider to ensure that the software you are choosing only provides features that uopi and not more than what you need.