You have two (2) options - 1) Implement an EMR/EHR system from one of the HIS vendors using the manuals offered through this web site in the process and/or 2) provide each of your patients the simple easy to carry and use EMRStick (Electronic Medical Record) from Medstick Corporation, Inc (USA) designed by industry professionals. You should be aware that HIS vendors do not for the most part have anything like the EMRStick. (More about the EMRStick later).

As you are probably aware the recently passed Healthcare Reform Law decrees that every healthcare provider (USA) will have an EMR/EHR for each of their patients by 2014. It has been found an EMR/EHR can do wonders for the healthcare provider and their practice reducing costs, improving healthcare delivery and providing the all important Continuity of Care between all providers.

It's no wonder that small practices are slow to adopt the technology. Initial EMR costs averaged $44,000 per physician, plus ongoing costs averaging $8,500 per doctor each year, according to a September/October 2005 article published in Health Affairs. An additional study (Phoenix Business Journal 9-11-2009) by PricewaterhouseCoopers show installing an EMR/EHR system could cost a three-physician private practice between $173,000 and $296,000. The cost for hospitals would be exponentially higher.

Physician practices of all sizes are hard-pressed to find that kind of money in these economic times. This is especially true when average Medicare payments are set to drop 10.1% and powerful health insurers constantly squeeze payment. According to a May 2007 AMA Member Connect survey, 67% of physicians will defer the purchase of information technology if the 10% Medicare reimbursement cut goes into effect.

And yet the solution is relatively easy especially if the provider takes advantage of the advanced EMRStick providing everyone their own private, safe, secure EMR/EHR with the Integrated Healthcare Information Systems (IHIS) covered in these manuals or from HIS vendors (None of the HIS vendors have anything like the EMRStick).

If you are not computerized in your office beyond patient appointment scheduling and perhaps viewing financial records and billing and linked to those with whom you work with in your office or practice including other outside practices via computer networks and not linked to hospitals and other specialty health care providers such as clinical labs via computer -