WRS Health

Commentaires : My practice is located in Lakewood Ranch, Florida. When you walk into my office it’s very quiet. We have soft music playing in the front and you can get a cup of coffee or a bottle of water. There’s usually not much of a wait time unless there’s been an emergency and there might not be anyone else waiting there. If you’re not feeling well, I have you sit in the massage chair, put your head down and turn the light off so you can relax for a little while. We try to make it a calm, peaceful environment. I have been practicing Internal Medicine in the greater Sarasota, Florida area for four and a half years. I care for patients ranging in age from 18 to 103-years-old. It’s a diverse population comprised of a lot of old and young people with very active lifestyles. I enjoy the breadth of Internal Medicine. My practice has transformed into a hybrid practice where I have some patients who are what I call the ‘regular’ patients and some patients who are ‘concierge’ patients. I call it my wellness program, because it really focuses a lot on prevention and time. I used an EMR at a previous practice. I had several ‘must haves’ on my EMR shopping list. I wanted something that was attainable to get information from home. I was looking for a web based program so that I would have 24/7 access. It was quite important to me with my type of practice to be able to do that on the weekends. Previously, I had a very cumbersome EMR that you had to sign in and have a secure citrix to access it. WRS is so much easier because even if I’m at home I can pull it up on the computer. I looked at 10 or 15 different EMRs initially based on price and what they had to offer. And then I looked at doing billing, scheduling, and having everything all-in-one, rather than getting different components of a program. I liked WRS initially mostly because of the web based part. I think it’s nice from the standpoint that I have electronic capability from anywhere and also the patient portal and the billing and that it’s all tied in together. I tend to like to sit at my desk and talk to patients without typing. The nice thing is that at the end of that visit I can put that information in and I feel that I capture the charges and accurately reflect what the visit was much more than previously with paper charts or with other EMRs. When patients come into my practice I made up an instruction sheet on how to use the EMR to its fullest. They like being able to update their medication list, being able to make their clipboard and provide their history because I tell them to do that if they are going to see other physicians. They really like the patient portal for prescription refills, to request appointments, and to update me with information. A lot of e-mails come in though the patient portal. They like to let me know that they got their reminder for their appointment the next day. Any patient can e-mail through WRS. They can get Rx refills and ask questions. Patients in my wellness program can e-mail me 24/7 through my personal e-mail account. I think it’s very important that we stay in touch and that they don’t wait for the annual visit to bring a list of 12 things to discuss. Having that ‘give and take’ cuts down on anxiety and also keeps the patient well informed. Now we’re using the fax queue and it has significantly decreased the amount of ink and paper that I am using and increased efficiency in that we are not grabbing the paper chart, flipping it, scanning it, etc. That’s wonderful and it’s so much easier. It has significantly improved the workflow as well as the accuracy of making sure things are put in the right chart. I checked out WRS with a local biller who uses the WRS Billing Module. I particularly like that I put in the charges at the end of the day as I do my note. I can e-mail her and say, ‘I don’t know which code to use for this’ or ‘please note that this might need to change.’ It’s very flawless and seamless without phone calls and faxes. It works very well. If you send a ticket, WRS gets back to you. A lot of the updates WRS has done over the last couple of years have been very useful. Recently, there have been some updates in the medication queue that have been quite useful. I do appreciate those updates. The updates really do help a lot of the different types of provider.

Good yet could be great

Commentaires : Overall a good program and definitely a good value for the money. The company is responsive and pleasant to deal with. A moderate learning curve. Worth looking at yet as with any software you have to figure out how it may help or hinder your workflow. I give it a 7.5 out of 10. With the improvements the company is working on it may be better in the next few months (or not).

Avantages :

Easy to see summaries of patient information and to pull down test results. Very nice company to deal with. Company dedicated to improving the software. Patients can see lab results that come into the program in "real time". Often they will beat me to seeing the results. Patient portal. Although we didn't use it, the program will call your patients 2 days before their visit to remind them. (We prefer calling on our own-yet this can be a big labor saver) Likewise we didn't use the practice management tools yet they are available and integrated into the program (this includes billing).

Inconvénients :

Task manager/results review section needs improvement. I could not send comments either to patients or to my staff without going through 3 screens. I found this time consuming and since I like to feed back on results to patients it was just not helpful. In addition, in the task manager you have to go through 2 screens to clear it from the task manager section. Ordering labs and consults and xrays was initially a chore, yet once I spent a Saturday night looking up all the CPT codes and then saving them into different sections my staff and I became pretty proficient at it and actually found ordering easy to do (so actually a PRO as well as a Con, with the con being I had to figure out that shortcut on my own). Prevention section is nonexistent. You must create it yourself which I found difficult. I did not understand why the company did not at least load the US Preventative Services Task Force recommendations based on age and then let you edit from there. It would be much more helpful.

Great for single provider or single specialty practice, not so much for everyone else

Commentaires : High pressure sales for a required 5 year contract with expensive add-ons. Lack of communication for upcoming software upgrades. Recommendations for improvement are "oh well, we don't care". Terrible, absolutely TERRIBLE for anything other than a single person family practice.
Look elsewhere if you want a true system to look at your billing and your clinical charts on the same screen.

Avantages :

Nothing that can't be found in every other system. The support is OK, but they are losing people now, and the replies are all generic. They use other providers who are familiar with the system to help you learn (not necessarily the same as your specialty). Accessible from anywhere even on the cell phone. Medications allow you to pick your favorites quickly.

Inconvénients :

1. Inability to archive diagnosis and problems without deleting them. 2. Inability to make your own templates. This is HUGE. They force you to use one of theirs that they will "modify". Otherwise, they charge you $10,000 for a single template. 3. Mapping your ICD10 and CPT codes is ridiculous. You have to do it 2 times for each chart. To map the diagnosis code for the daily charge requires you to review ALL the diagnosis codes for ALL the providers, requiring you to scroll for each code you enter. 4. Inability to just see "your" diagnosis codes. There is no filter to only see your prior charts and codes. If psychiatry has 4 codes, family medicine has 14 codes, then physical therapy has 8 codes, you have to look at 26 different codes each and every visit to go through. All of them listed every visit. 5. Inability to see your charts needing to be done if you didn't start them at the time of the visit. The schedule is based off of time, not by provider. IE., Unless the provider goes into the chart and starts the chart, then the visit goes into a phantom zone and it isn't assigned to any provider. 6. You can't look at the chart itself for prior meds without going out of the chart first and then back into it. 7. You can't copy a prior note because it copies the immediate prior note (if you are PT it would copy family medicine which was immediately before your visit and not PT...the charts aren't specialty set). 8. Reminders: only setup for 1 day not less.

Great EMR

Commentaires : It is user friendly.

Avantages :

Customer support. Project manager and Account manager and team are excellent. Guidance is provided throughout. They train you on the software and then schedule monthly optimization meetings to track your progress and help with any questions you have. That is quite commendable. You are not left in the middle of the sea to drown after software training.

Inconvénients :

I need an electronic/web based assessment scale so my patients can complete and submit prior to their appointment. Theirs only come as pdf, which some patients are not tech savvy and won't want to go through the stress of downloading, completing and uploading. This has not been provided. I am talking about for example a PHQ-9, GAD-7 scale, MDQ etc

Commentaires : My practice is located in Lakewood Ranch, Florida. When you walk into my office it’s very quiet. We have soft music playing in the front and you can get a cup of coffee or a bottle of water. There’s usually not much of a wait time unless there’s been an emergency and there might not be anyone else waiting there. If you’re not feeling well, I have you sit in the massage chair, put your head down and turn the light off so you can relax for a little while. We try to make it a calm, peaceful environment. I have been practicing Internal Medicine in the greater Sarasota, Florida area for four and a half years. I care for patients ranging in age from 18 to 103-years-old. It’s a diverse population comprised of a lot of old and young people with very active lifestyles. I enjoy the breadth of Internal Medicine. My practice has transformed into a hybrid practice where I have some patients who are what I call the ‘regular’ patients and some patients who are ‘concierge’ patients. I call it my wellness program, because it really focuses a lot on prevention and time. I used an EMR at a previous practice. I had several ‘must haves’ on my EMR shopping list. I wanted something that was attainable to get information from home. I was looking for a web based program so that I would have 24/7 access. It was quite important to me with my type of practice to be able to do that on the weekends. Previously, I had a very cumbersome EMR that you had to sign in and have a secure citrix to access it. WRS is so much easier because even if I’m at home I can pull it up on the computer. I looked at 10 or 15 different EMRs initially based on price and what they had to offer. And then I looked at doing billing, scheduling, and having everything all-in-one, rather than getting different components of a program. I liked WRS initially mostly because of the web based part. I think it’s nice from the standpoint that I have electronic capability from anywhere and also the patient portal and the billing and that it’s all tied in together. I tend to like to sit at my desk and talk to patients without typing. The nice thing is that at the end of that visit I can put that information in and I feel that I capture the charges and accurately reflect what the visit was much more than previously with paper charts or with other EMRs. When patients come into my practice I made up an instruction sheet on how to use the EMR to its fullest. They like being able to update their medication list, being able to make their clipboard and provide their history because I tell them to do that if they are going to see other physicians. They really like the patient portal for prescription refills, to request appointments, and to update me with information. A lot of e-mails come in though the patient portal. They like to let me know that they got their reminder for their appointment the next day. Any patient can e-mail through WRS. They can get Rx refills and ask questions. Patients in my wellness program can e-mail me 24/7 through my personal e-mail account. I think it’s very important that we stay in touch and that they don’t wait for the annual visit to bring a list of 12 things to discuss. Having that ‘give and take’ cuts down on anxiety and also keeps the patient well informed. Now we’re using the fax queue and it has significantly decreased the amount of ink and paper that I am using and increased efficiency in that we are not grabbing the paper chart, flipping it, scanning it, etc. That’s wonderful and it’s so much easier. It has significantly improved the workflow as well as the accuracy of making sure things are put in the right chart. I checked out WRS with a local biller who uses the WRS Billing Module. I particularly like that I put in the charges at the end of the day as I do my note. I can e-mail her and say, ‘I don’t know which code to use for this’ or ‘please note that this might need to change.’ It’s very flawless and seamless without phone calls and faxes. It works very well. If you send a ticket, WRS gets back to you. A lot of the updates WRS has done over the last couple of years have been very useful. Recently, there have been some updates in the medication queue that have been quite useful. I do appreciate those updates. The updates really do help a lot of the different types of provider.