For the physician:

• Increased productivity =
  • greater free time
    
  • greater net income
• Decreased liability
  
• Decreased hassles with insurance companies and Medicare over documentation
  
• Simplifies achieving compliance with national standards of care
  
• Pay for Performance bonuses
  (e.g. passing documentation reviews)

For the public health system:

• Improvement in immunization rate
• Better accessibility to communicable disease data
• Recognition of disease surveillance (e.g. smoking)
  
  
  

For health plans:

• Disease management at point of care
• Improvements in preventative health and HEDIS screening
• Capability to easily institute Pay for Performance plans
• Decreases preventable hospital admissions
• Reducing rising trends in Rx costs and improving compliance with formularies

For the patient:

• Improves care
• Encourages preventative care
  
• Convenient appointment reminders
• Emergency preparedness & travel

For the staff:

• Increased productivity =
  • less pressure
    
  • less hassle locating records, labs, approving refills, schedule recalls, etc.
    
  • less paperwork and filing
• Improved working environment
  
  
  

For the practice (business):

• Improved charting standardization decreases liability
  
• Reputation for excellent patient care
• Increased productivity =
  
  • decreased payroll
  • increased profit
    
• Improved working environment with less employee "turnover"
  
• Decreased hassles with insurance companies and Medicare over documentation
  
• Decreased storage space and hence less rent
  
• Decreased costs to provide documentation
  
• Decreased transcription costs
  
• Completely secure data