See the chart below, created from a partial list of the criteria used to narrow the selections, and how e-MDs stacked up.
The criteria were extracted from “A Note from the EHR Alliance”, an article published in February 2010 edition of the ACP Alaska Chapter’s Governor’s Newsletter)
Alaska EHR Alliance Criteria |
e-MDs Qualifications |
Affordable and/or remote host option |
e-MDs provides quality products & services at reasonable prices, encouraging rapid ROI, and e-MDs offers an ASP model. |
ePrescribing capability |
e-MDs is a Surescripts® Certified Solution Provider, offering an abundance of built-in e-Prescribing functionality, including formulary reporting, drug duplicates & interactions alerts, and mail order e-RX. |
CCHIT certified (National EHR certification process) |
e-MDs Solution Series earned CCHIT Certification in 2006 and 2007; e-MDs Solutions Series 6.3.0 is CCHIT Certified in Ambulatory, Child Health and Cardiovascular Medicine. |
High ratings by independent organizations ACP, AAFP, and KLAS |
* e-MDs earned Top Rankings in both the 2006 and 2009 AAFP User Satisfaction Surveys (#1 in Functionality and Ease of use, and more.) |
Guarantee to interface with State health information exchange (HIE) system |
e-MDs fully commits to meeting all emerging standards, privacy requirements, interoperability specifications and certification criteria referenced in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. |
Include a practice management system |
e-MDs Bill, the integrated PM solution, is an intuitive and comprehensive tool that simplifies claims, follow up, data analysis, and other practice management/billing cycle tasks. The integrated design seamlessly shares data with the Solution Series clinical tools, eliminating duplicate entry of patient information. |
40% small practice size clients |
Founded by a Family Practice physician, e-MDs launched from a desire to meet the needs of small practices. Despite mush enterprise level success, e-MDs remains a “specialist” in the small and midsize practice community, including practical knowledge of the unique challenges that small practice providers and provider groups must address. |
70% satisfaction ratings from Alaska physicians in 2009 survey |
93.3% of e-MDs users surveyed were Satisfied, with 60% responding as Very Satisfied. |
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