New AMA and MGMA Toolkit Assists in Practice Management System Software Selection

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To assist physicians in selecting the most appropriate software to run their practices, the American Medical Association (AMA) and the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) developed a new online toolkit, available today. Free to members of the AMA and the MGMA, the “Selecting a Practice Management System” toolkit is accessible on the AMA and MGMA Web sites.

The new toolkit will provide physician practices with:

• a five-step guide to PMS software selection,
• a comprehensive checklist of PMS software features and functionalities that physician practices can use to determine what their practice needs, and
• a sample “request for proposal” that physician practices can employ in their communications with PMS software vendors.

In a later phase of the project, an online directory of PMS software vendors that includes self-reported PMS software features and functionalities will be added to the toolkit in the Winter of 2010.