The economic effect of implementing an EMR in an outpatient clinical setting.

Central Utah Multi-Specialty Clinic, a 59-physician group with practices in nine locations treating 200,000 active patients, documented the economic impact of implementing an electronic medical record. During the one-year period of the study, the clinic experienced direct reductions in spending and increases in revenue of more than $952,000 compared with the prior year, and anticipates cumulative savings of more than $8.2 million over the next five years.