This program does an excellent job of assigning the photo to the patient's visit with a label almost effortlessly. I always take clinical photos of biopsy sites to help me prepare for future surgery. The coding feature has not only shown me many areas where I was previously under coding, but has also highlighted visits where I previously may have lacked documentation to justify a code. I learned more about accurate coding in the first 6 months of using EMA than I had in 15 years of manual coding. The coding feature of the program is I think one of its greatest strengths. I estimate it took 6 months to be reasonably comfortable with the system, but with the improvements made in the program now, I suspect that time could be even less for a new user. Most of my staff has learned to use EMA very quickly, and brand new employees seem to adapt to EMA faster than they do to a paper chart. The product was relatively new at the time we began and far from perfect, but it has improved by leaps and bounds - and Modernizing Medicine continues to find ways to improve it regularly. I have to admit the implementation was not as easy as I expected. Finally, a system that appeared to be designed by a dermatologist with all my goals in mind. There was definitely a lot of interest in the product and I was immediately impressed. Then I stumbled upon the Modernizing Medicine booth at the AAD meeting In New Orleans. When I started evaluating EHR systems at different dermatology meetings in 20, I did not see a single system that met any of those goals. Finally, I wanted a system that would allow me to maximize face time with the patient and minimize the drudgery of all the paper work associated with patient care. I also wanted to be more accurate and complete with my documentation, and preferably be more productive. I set a goal to find an EHR system that would make me more efficient, but still allow the convenience of documenting the visit on an anatomical figure like most dermatologists have done for years. I quickly realized that it was not easy to find a system out there that could match the efficiency of the single page progress note with anatomical figures that my practice like many others had been using for years. I always thought that when I left the military and entered private practice 16 years ago, I would adopt an EHR system very soon. I was using a paper chart system prior to switching to EMA in 2011, and now have almost 12000 visits documented in EMA. EMA’s complete MIPS solution also makes it easy to collect and submit your MIPS data, putting your urology practice in a better position to meet its long-term goals.Overall: I am in a 2 person general dermatology and Mohs surgery practice. Structured data from our EMA urology EMR system can show you where you stand compared to peers, helping you stay on track. With the shift to value-based care in the form of MACRA and MIPS, urologists will now be paid on a performance curve. When you can link each treatment to a tangible outcome, you can better identify ways to care for your patients effectively.īut that’s not all that EMA can do. You can uncover actionable insights into quality and cost metrics, benchmark your E/M code utilization against CMS Medicare Part B utilization data and even monitor a disease longitudinally over a series of visits. Instead of gathering free text, EMA captures structured data that can be analyzed and leveraged to improve both your practice’s and your patients’ health. Collecting information does little good if you can’t make sense of it.
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