After weathering initial resistance, a San Antonio physician practice finds financial returns in electronic records.

Many of the 15 physicians at Urology San Antonio had a lot of questions when the partners decided to implement an electronic medical record. Chief among them: What's in it for us?

Determining reliable return on investment results for an EMR at smaller physician practices is exceptionally difficult. Clayton Hudnall, MD, a vice president and partner with the practice, says Urology San Antonio had been using a pseudo-electronic filing system in which physicians dictated notes that would be transcribed and put in this system. "But we still had a heck of a time finding the notes, so we needed something different." Perhaps more important, the practice was spending $20,000 a month on transcription and "had very little to show for it," he says. Full Story.