The current push for a transition to Electronic Medical Record and Electronic Health Records is forcing the use of EMR on cardiologists and their billing staff at a faster pace than they may wish. As a cardiologist dealing with many procedures and with complex billing codes, it is difficult to bill for procedures in a timely manner, turn around denials and resubmit bills without an EMR system in place. In the current health care environment, which is offering stimulus money for moving toward EMR sooner rather than later, cardiologists will need to find the right EMR or at least medical billing system very soon.
Cardiologists must be careful to buy or lease a system that is already geared toward a cardiologist’s specific practice needs.
Some of the features to look for in EMR for Cardiology:
- Cardiology-specific ICD/CPT codes
- Cardiology-specific drug database to check for interactions and history
- Lab Interface with large National labs
- EKG / ECG software integration
- Cardiology SOAP note templates
- Cardiology procedure specific EHR templates such as:
- Hypertension templates
- Cardiac exam templates
- Cardiac Cath templates
- Pacemaker templates
- MidMark EKG integration templates
- Cardiology SOAP note Templates
- Cardiologist Referral letter templates, and more
The more customized your software is to the needs of a cardiology practice, the less customization and re-training you will have to do once your EMR software is in place. Medical Software tailored to your cardiology practice will also ease the migration issues between your current hard copy or stand-alone computer system and an integrated EMR and medical billing software.
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 Sheldon Needle, CTS President has been publishing reviews of medical software since 1990.
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