Meaningful use is good news for Praxis users! For the past few decades, medical practitioners have seen the cost of healthcare skyrocket while their compensation decreased. Meaningful use intends to bring that to an end, and Praxis is uniquely positioned to help you make the most of it!

Starting in 2011, a physician seeing Medicare or Medicaid patients will be eligible to receive up to $44,000 or $63,750 respectively.

With Praxis v5, you are guaranteed to collect the reimbursement you deserve!

At Praxis, usability from the doctor's point of view is not a new concept; indeed, it is at the very heart of our entire development process. Praxis CEO Richard Low, M.D., practiced medicine for two decades and founded Praxis in 1989 after concluding that the then-emerging EMR programs were taking a fundamentally flawed approach (i.e., templates).

For more than 20 years, we have been refining our uniquely doctor-friendly EMR, rejecting templates altogether. Helping doctors has been Praxis' goal since its inception, a goal we have held to steadfastly. Praxis saves you time, helps you practice better medicine, reduces your personal stress, and helps you earn a higher income. Our unwavering commitment to medical practitioners has made Praxis #1 in quality medicine in the AAFP's 2009 EHR User Satisfaction Survey.

We've accomplished this by keeping the channels of communication open with our community of physician-users. Every time we develop new software, we present it to existing clients and receive invaluable feedback. In effect, Praxis is an EMR developed for doctors by doctors. This team approach has made Praxis the most powerful and usable EMR in the world!

By putting doctors back in the forefront of EMR development, the meaningful use rules align almost perfectly with Dr. Low's vision of what an EMR should be.

Certification is our number one priority. The question is not if, but rather when. Fulfilling the government's meaningful use requirements is the easy part. Many EHRs will undoubtedly be able to do so. Fulfilling those same requirements in a way that does not hurt the provider is a far more difficult challenge. Praxis v5 will attain certification. But more than that, it will do so in a way that benefits you, the doctor. That's the Praxis difference.

Praxis v5 has been three years in the making. It is our most ambitious upgrade. This upgrade will resolve the critical meaningful use requirement of providing coded data to third parties, but it will do it without driving you crazy. (See Datum for a full explanation.) This is a promise that template-based EMRs simply cannot deliver.

In an effort to adapt to the new rules, template-based EMRs will become increasingly unusable, trapped by their architecture into a warped solution: the heaping of new templates and myriads of pick-lists on top of the old. It is an approach that is bound to give physicians a huge headache.

Not only is Praxis certain to attain certification, but it is also clear to us that under the new regulations, it will be the only user-friendly EMR available in the market.

Is this a biased view? Yes. We unabashedly admit it. We are 100% biased on the side of the provider. Our staff works day and night to make sure that doctors who work more than 60 hours a week, who are continually stressed, who are fearful of being sued, who are thinking about the well-being of their patients all the time, get a product that will make a meaningful contribution to their practice of medicine.