The healthcare IT business has seen a sudden spurt in the recent days. Many of the physicians have now opted to be more techno savvy and have laid their hands on electronic ways of prescription as well as maintaining electronic health records.

Physician practices would surely be beneficial if they adopt the e-prescribing and start adapting to the electronic prescription process. Not only this, for encouraging the use of electronic prescription, the payers have promised to give incentives such as digital handheld devices.

Now if you are not yet game for EHR adoption then, you would surely miss out on a two percent Medicare bonus. Apart from this, you could also be missing out on preventing prescription errors and lowering consumer costs. The smarter lot would have surely started giving a thought to the transition from manual to digital. But before you get started, you must know your requirements. It is of utmost importance that you figure out if you want a standalone system or a complete EHR.

To make this easy, let us run through the pros and cons of the entire electronic thing. Stand alone programs are inexpensive and easy to install but EHRs have some additional features which may serve the medical purpose you are looking for. Also, you do not have to possess an EHR System to get the stand alone program to run. But be sure to choose a stand alone program which is compatible with any applicable EMR.

So with this much of detailing you must have made up your mind. So wait no more, grab the opportunity.