There are many Electronic Health Record (EHR) vendors in the market who are offering hundreds of features to physicians, healthcare providers and hospitals. However, they are not catering to the unique practice workflows followed by the specialists. Every specialty has its own requirements and requires its EHRs to be customized. Generic EHR software can actually result in a lot of delays for specialists, and might even have them spend more time in front of the computer rather than focusing on patient care.

So what are the benefits Specialty EHRs offer to practices? Let’s discuss them in detail.

1. Custom templates/forms:Specialty EHRs have custom templates that match the requirements and usage of specialists. They also offer the specialists, the ability to design forms as they deem necessary, so that they do not have to rely on the ones not relevant to their practices.
2. Clinical Quality Measures:EHRs designed for specialists allow the physicians to meet Clinical Quality Measures relevant to the assigned population. This is also one of the key requirements for Stage 2 of Meaningful Use.
3. Less implementation time:Because Specialty EHRs are custom designed as per practice requirements, they require less time to set up and be implemented than their generic counterparts.
4. Less training required:Since Specialty EHRs are designed for specialists, they are familiar with many of the features contained in these EHRs. Hence, they require much less training time to get themselves acquainted with the EHR solution designed for them.
5. No excess of useless data: One of the biggest problems specialists have with generic EHR solutions is that they also get so much data which they do not require, and which is not related to their practice. Specialty EHRs help them get exactly the data they want, so they can get on with their practice workflow in a robust manner.