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SCENARIO B: Thinking about an EMR - someday
 You
may realize that EMRs offer many advantages over paper records, not just
for obstetrics, but for every aspect of your practice. Unfortunately,
the process of actually getting around to the selection and implementation
of an EMR can take many months, or even years. During that period of surveying
the EMR market you and your patients will lose out on the benefits of
consistent and informed prenatal care.
eNATAL can be implemented in just days from now, and if you eventually
find an EMR that fits your entire practice, you can simply stop using
eNATAL. There are no long-term contracts and you have full access to your
data and can download all prenatal information at any time. And in the
meantime, your patients will have received, in the interim, the 21st Century
prenatal care that you always intended for them.
Another benefit of using eNATAL while you plan for a comprehensive EMR
is, that in the time it takes do the planning and implementation, both
you and your staff can learn about and gain experience using a well-designed
and intuitive EMR product. Starting with a prenatal EMR that affects only
a small part of your practice makes the transition to a comprehensive
EMR less difficult and not as overwhelming.
However, you may eventually find out (as many of our current subscribers
have) that the promise of comprehensive EMRs to handle obstetric care
competently or to match your existing prenatal workflow is often an unkept
promise. Then you are faced with two rather unpleasant thoughts - compromise
your care and use a sub-optimal EMR for prenatal care, or go back to using
paper records. There is a third option, and that would be to use eNATAL
in addition to whatever EMR you eventually implement (see Scenario C).
In any event, you can start using eNATAL today while you are investigating
"generic" EMRs, your office can gain experience working with
an EMR, you can quit if and whenever you want without financial penalty,
and you might decide to use eNATAL indefinitely in tandem with another
EMR as it was designed.
Other Scenarios
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