How Cloud-Based EHR Systems Boost Your Cost-Efficiency

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• How cloud-based EHR systems boost your
  cost-efficiency
• Cost-efficiency leads the way when considering
  cloud-based EHRs
• You already know that electronic health record
  (EHR) systems can do wonders for your practice.
  The right EHR system can provide accurate, up to
  date, and complete information about patients at
  the point of care and help enable quick access to
  patient records so all of your providers can take
  part in providing superior patient care. They
  enable safer and more reliable prescribing and
  help promote legible and complete documentation
  as well as accurate, streamlined coding and
  billing.
• But cloud-based EHRs take all of that a step
  further. Cloud-based EHRs, as opposed to
  office-based EHRs, can improve the
  cost-effectiveness of your office in a number of
  important ways. They can help providers produce
  productivity and work-life balance while also
  enabling improved efficiency, and they can reduce
  costs through decreased paperwork, improved
  safety, reduced duplication of testing, and
  improved overall health.
• This blog explores cloud EHRs in detail and shows
  you exactly how they can improve the
  cost-effectiveness of your practice.
• What are cloud-based EHRs?
• Cloud EHRs are electronic health record systems
  that live in the cloud. This relatively new
  practice solution replaces traditional
  office-based EHR networks. They include all of
  the features of traditional office-based EHRs but
  do without many of those systems drawbacks.
• Just like office-based electronic health record
  systems, cloud-based EHRs contain all of a
  patients medical history as well as diagnoses,
  medications, treatment plans, radiology images,
  lab results, test results, known allergies, and
  immunization dates. Through them, providers can
  use evidence-based tools that can be used to make
  decisions about a patients care, and they can
  automate and streamline provider workflows.
• When it comes to choosing an electronic health
  record system, providers have a wealth of options
  to choose. While each will provide the same basic
  functions, they all vary when it comes to the
  details. Features commonly found in leading EHR
  systems can include solutions for
• Easy patient scheduling
• Smart patient workflows

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• Superior task management abilities
• Speeding up the patient charting process
• Downloading templates and order forms
• Entering detailed meaningful use reporting
• In addition, good EHRs will be built around a
  simple, intuitive, and attractive user interface
  and allow around the clock access from any
  device.
• Cloud-based optometry software EHRs do all of
  that but relive practices from the burden of
  having to host the EHR system in their own
  offices. With EHR duties pushed to the cloud,
  health care providers can access the system from
  anywhere as long as they can get on the internet.
  Updates are pushed through over the air and do
  not require a hard drive update. And since the
  system is hosted by someone else, practices can
  practically do away with their IT departments
  after all, someone else is handling some of the
  most difficult duties.
• How do cloud-based EHRs function?
• Cloud-based electronic health record systems use
  the power of the cloud to host all their
  optometry software functions. With cloud-based
  EHR systems, data are stored on external servers
  and can be accessed by any device with an
  internet connection and, of course, the right
  login and password details.
• In office-based secure EHR systems, practices
  were forced to spend thousands of dollars buying
  and maintaining on-site servers that were needed
  to host the system, including a server, hardware,
  and software, plus the systems needed regular
  maintenance and management from one or more IT
  professionals. With cloud medical software
  systems, which are sold through a
  software-as-a-service agreement, all of that
  expense and trouble is thrown out of your office
  and to the solutions provider. All you need to do
  is log in and get to work.
• How do cloud-based EHRs support cost-effective
  operations and eye care solutions?
• Cloud-based electronic health record systems
  promote cost-effective
• operations in a number of keyways.

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Are you offering or planning to offer virtual
care? Cloud-based EHRs will help you provide both
in-person and virtual care from a single
platform. Appointments can be handled by video
and you can see patients virtually while
charting. This strengthens the relationship you
have with patients and can drive positive reviews
and cut down on the number of patients who are
dissatisfied with your care and transfer their
care to another provider. Before your patient
even steps into the office or logs on for a
virtual visit, cloud-based EHRs can help promote
cost-effective operations. They permit easy
online patient appointment scheduling and
automatically send appointment notifications and
reminders so your staff does not have to spend
hours every day calling to confirm upcoming
appointments. And they also streamline the
check-in process by pre-populating many forms
required for care. Cloud-based optometry EHRs
also help you be more cost-effective after the
visit by automatically sharing care plans and
treatments with patients and offering secure
communications with patients and partners. Again,
this cuts down on the amount of time your staff
needs to spend on routine operations. Finally,
cloud-based EHRs help you manage and grow your
operations efficiently. You can manage tasks with
a streamlined practice inbox and spend less time
on payments, business reports, and analytics.
Have a problem? Most cloud-based EHRs have 24/7
customer support you can contact for help. Where
can I learn more about cloud-based EHRs? Eye
Care Leaders has a suite of modern cloud-based
EHR solutions for eye care practices of all
sizes. Eye Care Leaders myCare and My Vision
Express offer EHR, PM, ASC, and optical in a
single online platform, and can be complemented
with add-on services such as revenue cycle, MIPS
assurance, patient payment collection solutions,
and more. To learn more about cloud-based EHR
and eye care solutions, contact the pros at Eye
Care Leaders today and schedule a free demo.