From Searching Through Endless Paper Charts ---------> To Electronic Charts With a Click of a Button

Electronic Medical Records is not the wave of the future, it’s the wave of the present.

Patient Records Feature Overview:

Charts:

  • Emulate the best aspect of paper charts. 
  • Navigational tabs that allow users to go to any section of the chart without closing any previous screens.

Dashboard:

  • View at first glance any unsigned notes, incoming lab data, reports, letters, etc
  • Today’s schedule.  (Eliminates the staff from printing out daily schedules and reporting cancelations, no shows, and lateness into patient’s charts)

Templates:

  • Over 300 clinical templates
  • Include E&M codes and HCPR guidelines
  • Easy attachment of images/pictures
  • Electronic Signature  

Dictation:  

  • Automatically distributes elements of a progress note into various sections of the chart, such as Major Problems, Vitals, Prescriptions, Health Maintenance, etc. (Most EMR systems simply load a free text progress note and users dig through buried information)

 
Prescriptions:

  • Over 700 prescription templates with dosage, alternative and prices
  • Drug interactions and automatic allergy/intolerance checking
  • 3 tabs: Current, Ineffective, Historical (Medications with a duration automatically move to historical tab)
  • Formulary checking
  • Electronically sends prescriptions to Pharmacies.

Health Maintenance:

  • Pop Alert window for overdue health maintenance reminders
  • Mediations Alerts
  • Health maintenance protocols for mediations, diseases or major problems, which aides a plan of action for physicians. (It has built in intelligence: If a doctor orders a prescription, it knows the patient has a certain disease or problem and asks if they want that specific protocol.)   

Laboratory Data:

  • Lab data can be imported from outside or in-house labs
  • Flags abnormal data
  • Hundreds of lab interfaces such as Labcorp, Quest Diagnostics, Cerner, etc.
  • Automatically shoes patients last lab data
  • Protocols based on levels of lab results

Messaging

  • Intra-office messaging
  • Chart information can be emailed to consulting physicians
  • Message templates that automatic pull in last lab results, medications, vitals, etc.
  • Can send messages to patients and allow them to view labs through the internet

Reporting:

  • Missing, unsigned, unsaved progress notes
  • Print chart summary
  • Run query on mediations, major problems, etc
  • Sends reports of Cancelation, No shows, etc for physicians to sign
EMR systems tend to take users from screen to screen, up to as many as 20 screens.  Practice Partner is unique in our “One screen, One click” system. 

 

 

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