As environmental awareness continues to heighten, more and more businesses are beginning to search for “green” policies that are both better for the environment and fiscally sound. For medical offices looking to streamline and boost their efficiency, one option is adopting a paperless system in conjunction with EMR.

Paper for charts alone can cost a medical office upwards of $6000 each year. Not only is it wasteful and expensive, it can easily be eliminated in as little as 18 months. Initial start up costs can range from $500 to $1000 a month, but within a year that money can be recouped and expenses will continue to drop.

The specifics of going paperless involve digitizing patient records while simultaneously shopping for a sound EMR system. The average cost of an EMR is approximately $30,000. Once records are scanned and the EMR system is implemented, a practice can expect to see expenses drop between 8 – 10 percent per year. Less paper will be purchased, less space will be needed to store archived information and fewer employees will be needed to pull patient files.

• Customer Service
• Retrieve Time
• Filing Time
  
• Storage Space
• Disaster Recovery
• Integration with existing applications
• Regulatory Compliance
• Information Security