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“In selecting a vendor, we were deliberate and careful with our process,” says Dr. Teresa Marts, a physician with Family Practice Associates in Winner, South Dakota. “We took the time to identify the goals that were most important to us and decided these areas included better workflow, especially around phone calls and nurses’ activities; the ability to create meaningful reports; and a system that was user friendly. Honestly, making the change to an EHR wasn’t something any of us looked forward to. We were nervous our clinic could come to a grinding halt, and we didn’t feel that was an option. We decided that selecting MMIC Health IT to install NextGen and provide our ongoing IT support needs would get us the closest to our vision for the clinic.”

“I don’t believe there are any doctors in our clinics who would go back to paper charts,” says Dr. John Balfanz, a pediatrician with Pediatric and Young Adults Medicine (PYAM), a practice with five clinic sites in the eastern Twin Cities metro area. When PYAM decided in 2004 to modernize its records systems to make it more efficient to access patient records from any of its clinics, they chose NextGen's EMR system. “Many of our patients prefer to see a specific physician and are willing to travel between clinics to do so,” says Terri Joseph, clinic administrator, “This gives physicians access to the medical records from any of our five sites.”