From new government regulations to growing demands from patients, physician practices around the country face many challenges as they adapt to changes in how they conduct business. In addition, the Health IT provisions in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act has many physician practices looking to adopt electronic medical records (EMRs), which often leads to a fresh look at how they conduct business. As a result, an increasing number of physician practices are investigating technology to support elimination of paper-based workflows, maximize productivity, enable collaboration, and increase compliance with performance mandates and government regulations while simplifying business processes.

Practice solutions from Microsoft and its partners provide a delivery approach that drives efficient practice operations, supports collaboration, quality measures, automation, and compliance while enhancing security. The architecture of these solutions is based on commercial off-the-shelf solutions and can accommodate existing systems to drive efficiencies and provide greater visibility for practice operations in a security enhanced, collaborative environment. These solutions can help practices create new processes to support improved patient access, higher quality services, greater compliance, and better cost management to serve the needs of patients.

Table 1: Solution benefits
Solution Benefits
Microsoft and partner practice productivity solutions help physician practices and medical groups to:

  • Increase practice productivity by enabling collaboration and decreasing time-consuming paper based processes
  • Streamline operations to simplify routine processes in order to improve efficiency and service quality
  • Provide access to the right information at the right time that helps physicians make well-informed decisions
  • Enhance patient communications by providing on-line information and services
  • Provide controlled access to patient information to help prevent the exposure of confidential information
  • Help meet compliance and “meaningful use” requirements


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