| The concept of “going green” is spreading | | | | access to patient records at crucial moments, and |
| across the globe, from residential communities to | | | | could mean the difference between life and death. |
| downtown commercial space. Now, medical | | | | In these situations, EMRs give physicians |
| facilities are beginning to catch on. If your clinic is | | | | complete, accurate, and instant access to all of |
| behind on the green scene, there is a simple | | | | the patient’s medical history. The time saved |
| system that will help you be eco-friendly while | | | | using an EMR system allows more quality |
| saving time, money, and creating a safer work | | | | patient-physician interaction. |
| environment. An Electronic Medical Record (EMR) | | | | Today's providers are looking for ways to |
| management system will allow your facility to | | | | increase their bottom line by cutting operational |
| make green changes, without straining your staff. | | | | expenses. Although the initial investment in EMR |
| According to the California Integrated Waste | | | | technologies may seem costly, experts say the |
| Management Board, hospitals throughout the | | | | long-term savings can be substantial. The |
| nation generate 5 million tons of solid waste each | | | | investment in an EMR system will result in overall |
| year, with a large amount of that being paper | | | | savings for facilities, insurance companies, and |
| waste. If facilities reduced their need for paper, | | | | patients. |
| they could see a significant reduction in the | | | | By switching to an EMR system, a medical facility |
| amount and cost of waste removal. In 2003, The | | | | will significantly reduce the amount of paper that |
| University of Rochester Medical Center reported | | | | must be purchased, stored, and disposed. |
| that it sorted more than one million pounds of | | | | Lower-paper use savings are seen in lower paper |
| paper waste from its disposal alone. How much | | | | purchase costs for record storage and disposal. |
| would it cost your facility to dispose of 1 million | | | | Instead of taking up unnecessary space that could |
| pounds of waste? | | | | be put to better use, facilities can increase |
| Imagine if the disposal cost of 1 million pounds of | | | | useable, non-storage areas by using an EMR |
| paper went instead to a new hospital wing, new | | | | system and storing records electronically. This can |
| equipment, or a larger staff? How many | | | | free-up hundreds or thousands of square-feet of |
| improvements could your facility make by | | | | space.e-MDs sets the market standard for |
| reducing your paper use? EMRs can help any | | | | affordable and integrated EMR solutions. The |
| facility reduce paper use, and exhibit a noticeable | | | | systems at e-MDs are designed by physicians to |
| decrease in costs, and mistakes caused by paper | | | | reduce errors, improve the quality of care and |
| records. With an EMR system, health-care | | | | simplify business so more quality time can be |
| organizations will also be protecting the | | | | spent with patients. e-MDs Solution Series is a |
| environment by reducing the need for hardcopy, | | | | EMR and practice management system that will |
| paper records. An EMR system alleviates costs | | | | streamline workflow efficiency, improve the |
| while simultaneously decreasing what and how | | | | adherence to treatment standards, provide |
| much goes into the waste system. | | | | detailed financial analysis, and enhance patient |
| EMRs are not only providing facilities with a green | | | | education and interaction. Join the green |
| alternative, but are also revolutionizing the way | | | | movement and save your facility costly time and |
| patients and physicians interact, and improving the | | | | money by adopting an EMR system. |
| overall safety of everyone. EMRs provide instant | | | | |