A quarterly publication of the California Medical Association    •     Issue 1    •    Summer '05

Need Help Evaluating EHRs?

	Also in this Issue:
•	Electronic Health Records: Prepare Now, Buy Later
•	What Can You Do to Prepare for the Transition to EHRs?
•	Recent Developments in the Field of Health IT
•	Highlights from CMA’s Health IT Summit
•	Is that a Cutting-Edge Clinical Reference Library in Your Pocket?
•	Free Secure Digital Certificates for CMA Members

If you are ready to take the EHR plunge, CMA can help. CMA has partnered with a company, KLAS Enterprises, to provide members with customer satisfaction data on a variety of commercially available EHR systems. KLAS compiles comprehensive data on EHR systems, and rates them according to how physician users respond to a 40-question survey.

“We encourage physicians to access KLAS's unbiased and constantly updated information to see for themselves what other physicians are saying about the technology,” says Nileen Verbeten, vice president of CMA's Center for Economic Services. “I recently received a glowing recommendation for a particular EHR from a consultant. But using KLAS data, I found out that practices using the system disagreed with the consultant's evaluation.”

KLAS has agreed to provide this consumer data to CMA members at a significant discount and, in some cases, for free. All that's required is that you share with KLAS your practice's experience with at least one of your current software vendors

For more information on KLAS, visit CMA's members-only website. From there, select “Reimbursement Advocacy,” which is under “Physician Advocacy” in the main menu.

NEXT

• Electronic Health Records: Prepare Now, Buy Later
• What Can You Do to Prepare for the Transition to EHRs?
• Recent Developments in the Field of Health IT
• Highlights from CMA’s Health IT Summit
• Is that a Cutting-Edge Clinical Reference Library in Your Pocket?
• Free Secure Digital Certificates for CMA Member

Contact: Nileen Verbeten, 916/444-5532 or nverbeten@cmanet.org.