Key Takeaways on the Best EHR for a Small Practice
- Azalea is designed to support financial management and clinical care in one platform.
- Azalea ensures the EHR system is secure and compliant for you.
- User-friendly interface gives your entire team access to the patient view with no clicks or added screens.
- Built-in reporting provides visibility into financial and operational performance.
- Dedicated implementation team and U.S.-based support are included before and after adoption for all practices regardless of size.
The EHR for small practices is one built with the realities of running a small practice in mind. It’s an electronic health record (EHR) built to handle financial and cash flow challenges. It helps reduce the burden that focusing on administrative work instead of patients creates. And it helps minimize the pressures that managing staffing, compliance, and technology add to running a practice.
This article looks at how the Azalea Ambulatory EHR is designed to support the needs of a small medical practice — whether a one-person practice, a five-person practice, or any size practice.
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The Best EHR for Small Practices Is More Than an EMR
The terms EMR and EHR are often used interchangeably. All medical practices need EMR or EHR functionality. But there’s a difference between an EHR vs EMR (electronic medical record).
An EMR is essentially a digital version of a paper chart. AndEMRs are typically used in a single office.
An EHR gives you more than digital patient records. It also gives you inpatient and outpatient workflows, billing, scheduling, reporting, and population-level data. And it can be used across locations when needed.
The Azalea Ambulatory EHR gives you true EHR capabilities. And without the typical enterprise EHR pricing structure. The Azalea Ambulatory EHR includes financial and clinical management and built-in analytics. It includes practice management and patient engagement capabilities for scheduling, payments, insurance billing, record requests, integrated HIPAA-compliant telehealth, patient follow-ups, and HIPAA compliance in a single, easy-to-use and learn cloud-based platform.
The secure myHealthspot patient portal lets patients access their health records, secure messaging with clinicians, test results, and patient care plans any time. So, regardless of location, patients can monitor their health and message their provider.
“We needed software that would be able to optimize our entire front to back end office functions inclusive of charting. We reviewed other comparable software before making our final choice. … This platform is truly the best software for start up practices.
Felix A., Managing Director, PHYSICIAN
Clinic
Built-In Reporting in the Best EHR
The Azalea EHR offers Healthcare Analytics. You can use analytics to run automated reports on virtually anything you need and do away with manual reporting and focus on other things. You can automate reports for:
- Appointment volume and utilization rate
- No-show and cancellation rates
- Patient wait times
- Charges, payments, and adjustments trends
- Accounts receivable (A/R) aging
- Net collection rate and gross collection rate
- Denial rates and write-offs
And more. You can use reports to quickly and easily identify trends, increase patient volumes, and/or improve patient care and your practice.
Security and Compliance Is a Must
Security and compliance are mandatory for medical practices. And the Azalea Ambulatory EHR is fully cloud-based. So Azalea manages security or compliance instead of you having to manage it inhouse.
Azalea undergoes regular third-party security audits, including SOC 2 and HITRUST certification reviews. And Azalea takes multiple steps to ensure HIPAA compliance, including using access controls, encryption, firewalls, regularly releasing security patches, using audit trails, and having a standing business associate agreement (BAA) in place.
The Best EHR for a Small Practice Is Easy to Implement
If you’re already using an EMR or EHR, the idea of moving to something new isn’t pleasant. Even if you don’t like what you have, why risk disruption?
But sometimes, switching EHRs is a must. And Azalea approaches implementation as a collaborative process to make sure your path to a new EHR is as easy as it can be and disruption free.
With Azalea, you have a dedicated application specialist who guides. Your specialist meets with you weekly and guides every aspect of your implementation and onboarding process. And your Azalea implementation team works with you to customize workflow and chart note templates and shows you how to customize them as well. So your templates — and your EHR — work for your needs day one.
And you aren’t charged for data conversion or asked to do it yourself. Azalea does it for you as part of the implementation process. You only need to specify what you want and need. Azalea takes care of the rest.
“Has everything you need with no useless buttons and hidden menus. Offers: very easy highly customizable interface, all the menu options on one screen, web-based and lightning-high speed with good internet connection, access from anywhere, interface with Dr. First is so good, refilling and prescribing meds is very fast, including, restricted substances, ability to run any kind of report, so that you really know what’s going on with your practice.
Leonid Y., Associate Director
Clinic
The Best EHR Is Cost-Effective
The Azalea Ambulatory EHR is competitively priced. You pay for one user seat and can add as many users you need — whether that’s one or 100+. You pay only a flat subscription rate. Azalea never asks for revenue-sharing as part of your EHR cost.
Easy to Learn and Use; Built to Drive Efficiency
The Azalea Ambulatory EHR solution is designed to be user friendly — from learning it to using it everyday. Azalea provides onboarding and best practices training. And with Azalea, there’s no cut-off to the training cycle. Azalea stays with your practice for as long as needed.
Everyone in your practice can access everything they need — from scheduling to billing to your health information exchange(s) to your clearinghouse(s) — from a single screen in the same, single application. You don’t need to click around or open new tabs. Everyone can just focus on the task at hand whether that’s intake, patient care, or submitting claims.
For providers, notes are intuitive and easy to navigate. And even if you want to add Azalea AI Clinical Assistant to capture encounter notes hands-free, you can launch that right inside the patient chart with no interruption.
“The program is very user friendly and can be used by anyone with prior computer/EMR experience with little training or coaching.
— LARRY
Ambulatory Clinic
Full Support During and After Adoption Comes Standard with The Best EHR for a Small Practices
Being a small practice doesn’t mean you should be treated as small. You deserve the same support as a major hospital or 100-provider multisite clinic. And with Azalea, that’s what you get. You get full support during implementation and after.
During implementation, a dedicated application specialist guides every aspect of your migration and onboarding process. And once you’re set up and running, a U.S. based support team is available for every need you have no matter how big or small.
And they all work for a company that cares about healthcare and each client. One where people matter more than technology.
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RCM Billing Services Too
Azalea didn’t start out making an EHR. It started out in 2008 as a revenue cycle management (RCM) billing service for ambulatory clinics.
And if your practice wants help managing your revenue cycle, Azalea continues to offer complete RCM billing management with billers and coders, patient relations specialists, and consultants knowledgeable in 30 different specialties. All RCM team members are U.S. based and can help you access a proven RCM process that includes call center and analysis services.
Why Choose the Azalea Ambulatory EHR
When practices of any size choose the Azalea Ambulatory EHR, they get more than software from a software vendor. They get an ongoing partner they can trust. And the Azalea cloud-based solution is fully managed for providers to ease the burden on the practice. From implementation to upgrades to ongoing security and backups, Azalea manages things, so your practice doesn’t have to. There’s no need for added staff, hardware, or software. All your practice needs is a browser and secure internet access.
Whether you run a primary care or family medicine practice or another speciality, let Azalea show you why the Azalea Ambulatory EHR is the best EHR for your practice and how easy making the switch can be.
