EHR Migrations Could Mean Frustration for Your Office Staff

With data stretching back years, limited in-office staff and non-compatibility between systems, data migration can leave your practice struggling.

Deciding to switch EHR system takes planning and preparation. If your practice is not properly prepared, you could be facing months of complications as well as threats to patient safety and practice productivity. Not only do practices have to consider the time frame for this type of transition, but also the man power needed to make it happen and the patient intake reduction and revenue loss that comes with taking technicians off the floor of your clinic. It’s important to consider how much you’ll be paying technicians to assist in data migration as well as the amount of revenue you’re losing by reducing patient appointments.

Unfortunately, it doesn’t end when your data is transferred over. At that point, many practices deal with messy charts including missing data fields, duplicate entries and data misplacement. If not entered properly, this mix up of data can cause issues in your clinic as well as endanger your patients. The chart clean-up process can take months, extending the amount of time that your practice is operating on low patient volumes.

Phone COA, LLC can in assisting your data migration by reviewing migrated charts and manually pulling in missing data fields while confirming overall chart completion and accuracy. When you sign on with Phone COA, one of our certified virtual technicians will get right to work reviewing your charts.