Primary Care EMR

An April, 2010 study in the New England Journal of Medicine sited “In addition to seeing patients, a primary-care physician each day must address more than three dozen urgent but uncompensated tasks”, according to the study at provides a rare, quantitative look into the mechanics of office practice. The study went on to highlight that “answering telephone calls and emails, refilling prescriptions, reviewing lab test results and consulting with other doctors consume large amounts of time each day even though none of it is paid for.”

Couple the need for efficiency to run your business with the new Federal mandates on Meaningful Use with stimulus dollars up to $44,000 for Medicare providers and it is time to make the move to an EHR.

• Gain greater insight into the health maintenance of your patient population
• Leverage clinical decision support tools, eprescribing and registry reporting
• Reduce overhead costs of paper and searching for charts
• Be prepared to qualify for Meaningful Use

It is not longer a question of if, but a question of when to begin the implementation of an EHR.

Physicians Trust offers eClinicalWorks, the top EHR product as highlighted in two separate reports by Health Industry Insights in December 2009 (The industry short list of Electronic Health and Electronic Medical Records for Small, Midsize and Large Ambulatory Practices) as well as a custom implementation program to ensure success.

We realize adopting and EHR is a big project and Physicians Trust offers a turn-key solution from eClinicalWorks software, project management, training and ongoing support.