The person checking patients in is the same person chasing the claim, answering the phone, and quite possibly the one you are married to.
There is no IT department to absorb a badly designed system. No billing manager to catch the coding error. No compliance officer to notice the reporting deadline.
Most EMR advice is written for organisations with a director of clinical informatics. A three provider clinic cannot absorb a clunky system. This page is written for the three provider clinic.