Cerner Ambulatory EMR Software Review
Cerner EMR is a product from Cerner Ambulatory—a solutions provider that seeks to deliver answers for all kinds of healthcare practices. The model adopted by Cerner EMR is the ASP Model or ASP, i.e. Application Service Provider. This means that a practice’s patient and medical data is communicated via Cerner’s progressive data facility. Using the ASP Model, practices can access their healthcare management interface or Ambulatory EMR using a secure Internet connection from anywhere. There are no geographical limitations to using Cerner EMR for a registered user in a healthcare facility. This allows various offices of a medical facility to be connected over large distances. The presence of something as universal and basic as an internet connection ensure connectivity with Cerner EMR. Cerner Ambulatory EHR services can be customized to suit healthcare practices of all types, i.e. individual practitioners to larger, clinical establishments. The ASP format seeks to reduce expenses considerably in a healthcare practitioner’s office(s).
For creating the Cerner Ambulatory EHR, the developers at Cerner conducted detailed studies on how clinicians used or preferred using software solutions for day-to-day functions. This helped them understand the often neglected, practical aspects of running a facility more comprehensively. Using Cerner EMR, clinicians can process their administrative and clinical information using the shortest, possible pathway, i.e. less clicks ensure greater saving of time and processing costs. Developers of Cerner EMR have claimed that physicians who have used their software have confessed to saving more than two hours, per day. This converts into two more hours of patient handling on a daily basis, i.e.. a direct increase in daily clinical revenue.
With Cerner EMR, a practice can easily integrate a variety of medical reports and respond instantly when clinical information is demanded. Features like 'Drag & Drop' ensure that creating ad hoc reports is easy and reporting formats can be easily customized. Physicians using Ambulatory EMR put forth a special advantage for their patients diagnosed with chronic diseases. These Ambulatory EMR solutions provide and link logical clinical explanations to all clinical users, making the entire process of making clinical decisions a lot easier.
A similar advantage is passed on to managing Immunizations for a large patient volume. Cerner EMR makes submission of immunization data to immunization registries a lot easier. Here, physicians need to simply download the Immunization data and then upload the same to their State Immunization Registry. The entire process requires just a few clicks.
