Best Practice: Use Consulting When Implementing AdvancedMD

Large practices as well as small ones should be aware of the complexity of implementing AdvancedMD and seek help. 

The introduction and implementation of a new EHR is one of the biggest IT and operational projects for any healthcare organization. A new EHR affects a practice's clinical practices, patient relations, schedule management, and reimbursement. 

Given the high stakes, it has long been a best practice to seek third-party assistance when implementing a new EHR, including AdvancedMD consulting assistance. 

In my long experience of implementing and optimizing AdvancedMD, I see the same costly mistake again and again - organizations attempt to implement the system on their own, only to require a whole set of changes later on. The desire to cut costs at the beginning is understandable, but it almost never pays off. AdvancedMD is a complex system, filled with nuances, and almost every feature -  from developing schedule columns to the uploading of charge codes - can be done in a bad way or a good way. 

While the implementation manager the vendor will assign to you will do their very best to assist you, provider organizations almost always do not know what to ask for or what the options are, and get lost in the details. In my experience, this results in frustration, re-work, or even abandoning the system altogether. 

An experienced consultancy such as Arrowwood Healthcare Consulting, with decades of experience across provider organizations and specifically with AdvancedMD, can save organizations many months of employee frustration, not to mention real money in lost reimbursement or charge delays. 

At Arrowwood, there is no magic to our methodology - we simply know the system very well, and have tremendous experience in implementing it across every possible speciality and organization size. 

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For questions regarding AdvancedMD consulting and AdvancedMD implementation assistance, feel free to contact us.