Get more than just the basics

Many Health IT experts and physicians themselves are under the impression that finding the right EHR for family practices is the easiest of the lot. They could not have been more wrong.

True, family medicine does not require extensive device integrations like a cardiologist. Neither does it need automated processes such as chemo or immunization management systems. However, being the most overworked and understaffed due to the high demand for this specialty; a family practitioner does not have the time to waste on substandard EHR softwares. Not only do they slow you down, you waste time in implementing these systems and then abandon them because you were better off on paper. Thus, caution in buying an EHR is as important for a family provider as for any other specialty.

This myth of using generic products has already led many of your counterparts to buy into free softwares with very basic functionality. Thus, it comes as no surprise that Family Medicine is leading the EHR replacement drive.

This guide has been designed to help you evaluate vendors and to ensure that you do not end up with a sub-standard solution.