Modernizing Medicine EMR

 

Modernizing Medicine EMR, also known as ModMed, is an all-in-one suite of specialty-specific solutions. Their main product, EMA EMR, equips physicians with feature-rich practice management, inventory and revenue cycle management tools. EMA adapts to each physician’s style of practice rather than forcing them into templates. This is why EMA EMR has a high rate of user satisfaction.

Adaptive Documentation

In a world where we are used to having our information instantly accessible online, it seems natural that medical records would also be easy to access. But this isn’t always the case, especially when it comes to obtaining medical documents from previous physicians or switching between EMR systems.

Boca Raton, Florida-based Modernizing Medicine provides a suite of mobile specialty-specific solutions for physician offices, including its ModMed EHR system. The company’s cloud-based software is subscription based and designed to help dermatology, gastroenterology, orthopedics, ophthalmology, urology, pain management and plastic surgery practices, as well as ambulatory surgery centers.

The company also offers a ModMed EMA telehealth platform that allows its users to conduct video and audio consultations with patients. The solution features an integrated MIPS dashboard and automated suggested coding. It is compatible with most tablets, smartphones and laptops. The company also provides a centralized customer support portal and webinars. Customer support representatives are trained to enhance the experience of its clients.

Automated Suggested Coding

Unlike some one-size-fits-all EHRs, Modernizing Medicine EMR software, also known as ModMed (or EMA), is tailored to the workflow of specialty practices. Their gGastro, Dermatology and Otolaryngology EHRs provide integrated billing, revenue cycle management, analytics and patient engagement tools, including their modmed telehealth solution, all for a single monthly fee.

EMA is certified by Surescripts, which connects physicians with pharmacists and drug-price information to facilitate e-prescribing. It also supports electronic prior authorization and interfaces with GoodRx to compare prices for thousands of drugs.

The company’s ophthalmology director, Michael Rivers, MD, shares that some otolaryngology practices have reduced their no-show rate by 62% through appointment reminders and other features. Additionally, patients can check-in with a front office staff member via a portal to expedite the process and communicate with their physician and scribe. They can even ask questions and receive answers from a live person during the visit. This helps to eliminate time wasted on paperwork and phone calls.

Robust Analytics

Modernizing Medicine, sometimes shortened to ModMed, provides a suite of touch- and cloud-based specialty-specific healthcare IT solutions that place physicians and patients at the center of care. Its products and services include an intuitive data-driven EMR software called EMA, specialty-specific practice management and revenue cycle management, patient engagement tools including video and audio telehealth, and analytics.

With the right structured EMA data, doctors can make better decisions about clinical and operational outcomes, according to Stacy Ziegler, product owner of Analytics at ModMed. “The ability to see that data and have visible, easy-to-digest snippets of that information is very important, especially as we move toward value-based health care,” she said.

For example, with a simple click, she said, a physician can filter by gender, ethnicity, race and primary insurance on a superbill and launch a table of data to identify patients that may be good candidates for new services or who are not responding to treatment.

Longitudinal Data

In digital medicine, patient data record health events over time. These data create unique patient trajectories that can be highly predictive of disease progression and enable effective treatment. However, most digital medical studies use only a single snapshot of these longitudinal data, ignoring additional information encoded in the trajectories. To leverage this information, new trajectory-aware artificial intelligence (AI) solutions are needed.

Founded in Boca Raton, Florida, Modernizing Medicine offers an all-in-one suite of specialty-specific software to help physicians optimize their practices. The company's gGastro and EMA EMR suites equip physicians with practice management, inventory management, revenue cycle management and analytics tools. It also offers video and audio telemedicine for allergy, dermatology, gastroenterology, ophthalmology, pain management, orthopedics, and podiatry offices.

The company's research-grade EMR enables it to better capture the social determinants of health, says Venn. This will profoundly change research, she adds. For example, a recent study showed that addressing barriers to medication adherence among patients with type 2 diabetes improves glycemic control.