[medinformatics] Medical Societies Offer EMR Selection Advice

[Healthcare Informatics News]

With an estimated 200 to 400 companies selling electronic medical records software, physicians
interested in buying a system need help. So medical societies, industry groups, consultants and others are getting in
the business of advising physicians on what EMR would suit them best. From American Medical News:


”Doctors, particularly doctors in small to medium-size practices, don’t have the resources on their own to make
good decisions between the hundreds of vendors. So, the need for this activity is certainly out there,” said Peter
Basch, MD, an internist and co-chair of Physicians’
Electronic Health Record Coalition.
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PEHRC was formed in July by 14 medical societies — including the AMA,
American College of Physicians and American
Academy of Family Physicians — to help physicians choose and implement EMRs, which also are called EHRs, or
electronic health records

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