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A medical practice management system (also practice management system or PMS) is a software-based information and enterprise management tool for physician offices that offers a set of key features that support an individual or group medical practice's operations. Those key features include — but are not limited to — appointment scheduling, patient registration, procedure posting, insurance billing, patient billing, payment posting, data and file maintenance, and reporting.

The PMS has traditionally been a stand-alone application, installed on computers in the physician office. But like laboratory information management systems, hospital information systems, and other informatics software, trends have shifted to both web-based and cloud-based access to PMS applications. Cloud-based PMSs have been around at least since 2011, and they have become more attractive for several reasons, including the ease of letting the vendor maintain and update the technology from their end, the need for less hardware, and the convenience of accessing the system from anywhere. (Full article...)

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