Great documentation is vital to your defense as a provider against a malpractice claim. However, it is not only critical to record what you did, but also to show the logical progression of thought that lead to your diagnosis or the course of action you chose. If there were any one reason to use Praxis EMR every day in your practice, the industry leading legal protection it provides you would be it!

“Praxis requires the physician to record his thinking process, and to refine the logic with each new patient. By focusing on the difference between patients, the record necessarily reflects why one given diagnosis or therapy was chosen over another. This in turn allows the defense attorney to use the record to assert the uniqueness of the patient, and why a particular therapy was chosen for this patient. Since a physician is not held to be a guarantor of a cure or a good result, but instead must choose an acceptable treatment based on the information available to the physician at the time the choice was made, clear documentation of what was known is usually an adequate defense."

There is another related problem that is latent in every template-driven program that is not present in Praxis. The templates in other systems are subject to discovery and may be used against the defending physician. However, since Praxis is based on the examination of previous patients, these records are not subject to discovery since they are protected by physician-patient confidentiality.

Therefore, it is the flexibility and theory behind Praxis EMR that provide the best legal protection for the practicing physician.

Medicare rejecting claims derived from template documentation is nothing new. Traditionally, third-party payers have frowned on standardized electronic charts created by template-based EMRs. Template EHRs, by design, create cookie- cutter style charts, full of computerized verbiage. A physician or clinic found to be producing these types of template records, such as identical records for multiple patients or worse, identical records from multiple practices, will likely find themselves with claim denials, and ‘recoupment for overpayment' that followed by insurance lawsuits. Please be on notice. Medicare is watching.

Bottom Line: Praxis EMR creates an individualized, personalized, organic record for every patient. This is because Praxis EMR is Template-Free. No template based EMR does this.

Praxis EMR works with the mind of the physician, helping the doctor every step of the way. Praxis reminds you at the point of care of how you treated patients with similar conditions in the past, so that you may ask the present patient the same questions and give them the same advice. What is more, if something new pops into your mind, you simply document it this time, and it will be there as a reminder for all subsequent encounters. With Praxis, doctors have more time to spend with patients and need not spend time after-hours finalizing charts. Doctors also won’t wake up in the middle of the night, suddenly realizing they forgot to tell a patient something important. Praxis will give you peace of mind.

Practicing the highest quality medicine while producing the best quality documentation in the industry has solid financial benefits for your clinic. Although, they may make claims to the contrary, no template-based EMR can do this. Most Praxis EMR customers see increases in revenues of 10% - 15%, with a few Praxis EMR clients reporting bonuses of $120,000 to $150,000, solely related to using Praxis EMR on a daily basis. This is because the increase in medical quality from using Praxis directly improves productivity and the practice's bottom line.