SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM

 

·        Looking for a more meaningful relationship with prescribing physicians? Contact us for sponsorship opportunities.

·        Unprecedented, innovative and effective point-of-care promotional tolls for pharmaceutical marketers, health plans, hospitals, and medical groups.

·        Employers, pharmaceutical companies, health plans, hospitals and medical groups can now sponsor a free or discounted subscription to www.ezmedicaloffice.com  as part of their benefits offering.

 

HOW ARE YOU ATTRACTING YOUR KEY PRESCRIBING PHYSICIANS?

In today’s competitive market, it takes a lot more than talks, gifts and golf to attract your top physicians. Sure, highly selective great product offerings go a long way. With www.ezmedicaloffice.com’ sponsorship program, we enable you to offer physicians needed tools that empower their medical practice. You’ll delivers services that definitely help your physicians proactively manage their office costs, enhance their practice, and save time. The impact on medical costs, not to mention the dramatic efficiency gains for physicians, is a gift that will really be appreciated day in and day out. And that translates to stronger relationships between you and the physicians.

So forget that call to the florist, restaurant or show ticket. Call www.ezmedicaloffice.com instead.

 

HEALTH PLANS OFFER TECH SUPPORT             Some plans are seeking to improve administrative efficiency and patient safety by providing physicians access to innovative electronic tools.

Physician practices are understandably reluctant to make major investments in information technology. Stagnant incomes and rising expenses leave little room in a practice's budget for an outlay of thousands of dollars, say, for an electronic medical record system. However, stating the case for improved efficiencies and fewer medical errors, some health plans are helping physicians to defray the costs of IT improvements.

In California, the Integrated Healthcare Association, a healthcare policy group, has initiated a program that encourages managed-care plans to reward providers based on a common set of quality measures, including improvements in information technology. As of September, four of the six plans participating in IHA's Pay for Performance program have put in place bonuses or other financial incentives for those practices that have adopted or made improvements to their IT systems.

Other health plans are taking a more proactive approach to getting their providers to adopt information technology by actually providing the hardware, software and paying for other associated costs, such as licensing fees.

**PLANS OFFER TECH SUPPORT /By Jennifer A. Eaton/Physicians Financial News Feb 15, 2004.

 

ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORDS

It is clear to all physicians that EMR is a new emerging standard for medical records. EMR improves the patient care by helping the physicians spend more time on the patient care and less time on chart. EMR improves reimbursement. Managed care and insurance companies, as well as Medicare and Medicaid demand detailed documentation and often reduce payment if the chart is not well documented. Physicians could spend as much as 1/3 to ½ of their time on paperwork. For an average office visit 15 minutes or 25 minutes, doctors may have to spend another 10 to 15 minutes for writing progress note and prescription.

An electronic medical record system can help doctors raise revenues, improve patient care, enhance documentation, and gain easier access to data. Plus it can reduce or eliminate dictation and the cost of transcription.

 

THE COST OF AN EMR

Electronic records are making headway in hospitals and large group practices, which usually have information technology staffs and seven- or eight-figure IT budgets. But small groups and solo offices are a tough environment: they have tiny budgets, no IT staff (the ones with a knowledgeable office manager are lucky), and little spare time to get things running without a major impact on revenue.

Many contend that small practices aren't prepared, financially or organizationally, for an EMR.

What is the cost? There's a wide range of estimates, depending on whom you ask. The initial cost of an EMR is cost at somewhere between $15,000 and $30,000 per physician, and an extra 15 to 18 percent of the software cost for annual maintenance and updates. The total cost is $1,500 to $2,000 per doctor per month on an ongoing basis.

One way being touted to reduce EMR costs is to use an application service provider. www.ezmedicaloffice.com is an ASP. The ASP model eliminates the need for a practice to buy pricey EMR software. It also ends the hassles involved with purchasing and installing upgrades, and the need for on-site information technology specialists. ASP systems are also easier to learn. ASPs host EMR programs and clinical databases on a remote server and serve them to doctors online. The monthly software-and-maintenance fee will range from $150 to $800 per doctor.

At www.ezmedicaloffice.com, the monthly software-and-maintenance fee is absolutely unmatched, $39 per member with no long-term contract. No setup fee. No annual update fee. No upgrade fee. No license fee.

 

WHAT ARE THE FINANCIAL BENEFITS OF AN EMR?

If physicians dictate office notes, they definitely save money on transcription, which can easily costs $1,000 a month per physician.

There's general agreement that EMRs boost coding levels and capture more charges than physicians usually write on their encounter forms. Doctors have filed 18 percent more charges with their EMR.

 

CAN YOU AFFORD AN EMR AS A GIFT?

Yes and No! But definitely “yes” with www.ezmedicaloffice.com. The value of your gift is not just $39 per month, but it will be valued a lot more by your physicians.

 

CONTACT US

 

·        We welcome the opportunity to tell you more. We at www.ezmedicaloffice.com  have so much to offer that it may be easier to learn more about our web-based EMR and sponsorship programs by talking to a "real" person. We look forward to learning about your specific needs. Use the form below to tell us about yourself and your organization.

·        We'll have a representative contact you shortly. Want immediate answer to your need? Call us at (626) 572-9791