Deer Lake Medical Association (DLMA), a physician practice with five locations in Pennsylvania, installed an EMR from Misys Healthcare Systems in 2003. Since that time, the organization has reduced:

• Adverse drug events by 34 percent;
• Drug utilization by 15 percent;
• Laboratory utilization by 8.8 percent;
• Radiology utilization by 14 percent; and
• Billing errors by 78 percent

It also saved the practice more than $34,000 in the first year.