Cardiology Electronic Health Records

The requirements of a cardiology, pulmonary, coronary, cardiac and cardiovascular practices are unique and thus these practices need a specialized cardiology EHR (Electronic Health Records) /EMR (Electronic Medical Records) that caters to the needs of a cardiologist. Cardiologist usually process a lot of paper documents consisting of images, lab results, notes etc and they have started going paperless offices in some big way. Cardiology EHR Software, medical billing system and practice management system are designed to meet the specific needs of a cardiologist’s practice. They help the cardiologist’s in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases such as coronary artery disease, heart failure, congenital heart defects and electrophysiology besides assisting them achieve financial and operational efficiencies.

Benefits of implementing cardiology EHR Software

Having one of the best Cardiology EHR Software can bring physicians dozens of features and allows for greater automation. Some of the benefits of using a cardiology based EHR are:

  • It reduces the time spent on prescription refills and referral letters
  • Improve revenues
  • Maximize your billing by coding each encounter
  • Increase your productivity by automatically generating the progress notes
  • Provide enhanced patient care
  • Accelerates the reimbursements by reducing the number of rejected claims
  • Automatically send the lab orders

Customized for cardiologist

Cardiology EHR/EMR software should be reliable and must meet the specific needs of a cardiologist. It needs to be integrated with practice management system and medical billing. it should allow the practice to verify the diagnosis related to cardiology, using the ICD and procedural CPT codes that are specific to cardiology.

Cardiology EHR Software should be customized to the existing workflows of the practice and should model the existing templates and forms. Chances are that the software will already have a template that can be customized to the cardiology practice.

 Features of Cardiology EHR Software

  • HL7 Custom Interfaces
  • Server or ASP based
  • Custom decision support (ADE, Coding)
  • E&M Coding Assistance
  • Lab Interface
  • Billing/Scheduling Software Interface
  • Tablet PC Enabled
  • Online Patient Portal
  • Document/ Image Management
  • PDR Based Prescription Writing

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