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Medical Records & Billing

Guide to medical billing, electronic medical records & HIPAA compliance

Advantanges of Electronic Medical Records (EMR)

More and more medical practices are migrating to using electronic medical records (EMR). Some of the advantages of doing so include:

• Eliminate the loss, damage, or misfiling of patient medical records

• Eliminate the duplication of patient data on multiple paper forms

• Decrease or eliminate chart pulls (which decreases phone call return time too)

• Decrease the amount of time searching for patient data

• Decrease medical transcription costs and turnaround time

• Decrease the overall cost of medical records management

• Improving legibility of physician notes

• Improving industry compliance and audit results

• Streamlining the management of prescriptions

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