The government has deployed quality measures in the form of meaningful use objectives, in a bid to improve overall health infrastructure and patient care, creating opportunity to yield monetary benefits.

Although highly influential in promoting usage of Electronic Medical Records, Meaningful Use has not been the main driving force before behind EMR adoption, as some experts had expected. This is mainly attributable to the alienation of physicians towards workflow changes brought on by EMR solutions along with the high costs of EMR implementation.

An Orlando based physician, currently attesting for meaningful use exclaimed, “$21750 is a lot of money for a small practice, in this period of economic recession and increasingly low returns, this can make a sound difference.”

Electronic Medical Record software is the future of healthcare, with abundant proven benefits including reduced costs and elimination of paper. Add further financial incentives and the EMR would be practically paying for itself and physicians would not have to worry about the investment costs.

With many established vendors now providing customizable specialty specific systems to aid providers whilst consistently improving usability, Electronic Medical Records have come a long way from being a simple tool to document patient records, to exponentially increasing the standards of productivity In the practice by streamlining clinical, administrative and financial workflows.