Why Specialty Only EMR can be a Dead-End Road

Why Specialty Only EMR can be a Dead-End Road
Successful businesses today are the ones that adapt to change faster while providing more customer centric services. In a nutshell, provide viable value with better customer support then the competition. Businesses that put all their eggs in one basket are at a higher risk for failure than businesses which have the capability and foresight to expand both horizontally and vertically.

These same principals carry forward into the medical industry and can actually be the difference between a mediocre medical practice and a thriving medical practice.

Case in point: I did an EMR demonstration today for a medical practice with 6 physicians. Two were General Practice, two were Psychologist, one was Pain Management and the sixth was Dermatology. They are a thriving medical practice, growing and continuing to expand their service offerings.

This medical practice offers in-house consults and covers a variety of medical conditions. Horizontally, this medical practice offers more. Vertically, this medical practice offers just as much as the other medical practices, specializing in any one of the 4 specialties. Most common consults are kept in-house, and with the added benefit of having all physicians sharing one EMR solution, the benefits continue to grow.

While there are many specialty specific EMR solutions on the market today, purchasing a specialty EMR solution puts your medical practice in a box. Expanding to additional medical specialties means buying more software. Owning two solutions, specialty specific, increases a medical practices costs, while reducing profits and increasing the complexity of IT.

Before considering a specialty EMR solution, consider your five year growth plan. Do you plan to grow? Will your growth be in other specialties? Would you like the ability to grow in other specialties? If you answered yes to any of these questions, selecting a multi-specialty EMR solution might be the best business decision you could make.

Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote, “The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.” Is your medical practice moving forward or standing still?

PrognoCIS EMR is a multi-specialty solution, supporting; Cardiology, Dermatology, Endocrinology, ENT/Otolaryngology, Family Practice, Gastroenterology, General Practice, General Surgery, Health Center, Hospital, Internal Medicine, Neurology, Non Profit, OB-GYN, Ophthalmology, Orthopedics, Pain Management, Pediatrics, Podiatry, Psychiatry, Pulmonology, Universities, Urology, Urgent Care and Wellness Centers. One or more specialties can be loaded into a single database, offering your medical practice scalability and growth without additional software, hardware or IT.

All of this for a single solo practice or a multi-provider practice with multiple locations. If you do have plans to grow your medical practice and thrive, PrognoCIS EMR should be on your shortlist.

Octave Solutions, the largest provider of PrognoCIS in the US is also the most experienced partner for PrognoCIS EMR implementation, support, training and sales. With over 10 years of medical experience, we have a reputation of being on-time and on-budget.

Please visit http://www.octavesolutions.com for additional information, view an online EMR demonstration, or download PrognoCIS EMR information.

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