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A recent studies published in New England Journal of Medicine [1],[2] indicates that only 17% of Physicians in the US are using basic computerized system (defined as when only demographic data about the patient is computerized). Only 4% are using fully computerized systems. Larger practices are 3 times more likely to be computerized. This is because the smaller practices do not have resources, or are willing to take the risks to computerize their practice management. Compared this to a survey of 10 western industrialized nations, 90% of physicians are regularly using computers in their practice.

Deura Systems understands that the major reason for physicians in small practices not using computerized systems is lack of resources which are available to larger practices.

The same survey[2] indicate that in physicians’ opinion, the biggest major hurdles towards their computerizing the practice management are:

  • - Amount of Capital Investment (47%)
  • - Uncertainty of Return on Investment (33%)
  • - Finding the correct system for their practice (38%)
  • - Loss of Productivity during transition (35%)
  • - System becoming obsolete after deployment (27%)

    • Other hurdles that were mentioned were maintenance costs, ease of use and reliability of the system.

    American Recovery and Reinvestment Act has allocated 19 billion dollars for the update of healthcare sector. Obama administration has given a goal that by 2014, all the patient records will be computerized. Streamlining and modernizing the medical care system by computerizing the running of the practice will become norm rather than exception in the future.

    Now it is possible for small medical practices to hire economical services from Deura Systems that were otherwise unavailable to them because of the cost. Since we do not develop medical practice software ourselves, we work with you to research the best solution for you, and make sure that we only propose a system that is best suited for your practice. We work with the practice in parallel during deployment, and make sure that the impact on the daily routine of the practice is minimized. We provide training services to the medical staff, so that the system deployed is utilized to its maximum, thereby maximizing the return on investment. After deployment, we provide continual support at your premises to manage the system. We keep in touch with the software vendor to make sure that the latest upgrades from the vendor are installed, to make sure that the system does not become obsolete.

    [1] DesRoches et al., “Electronic Health Records in Ambulatory Care — A National Survey of Physicians”, The New England Journal of Medicine 2008;359(1):50-60.

    [2] Jha et al. “Use of electronic health records in U.S. hospitals”, The New England journal of medicine 2009;360(16):1628-38.