EMR Software Overview
Practice Partner Patient Records provides a host of innovative tools to
improve both office and clinical efficiency, while helping to improve
quality of care. Patient Records allows practices to replace their paper
charts, with a comprehensive feature set utilized nationwide by over 900
medical offices of all sizes and specialties.
Since its introduction in 1987, Practice Partner Patient Records has
focused on what we know best - outpatient medical clinics. Refined by over a
decade of feedback from active users across the country, Patient Records is
designed to automate both the clinical and business sides of the modern
medical office. The system can interface with almost every major practice
management system.
In addition to the comprehensive
feature set of
Practice Partner Patient Records, Practice Partner has a depth of experience
in successfully implementing and supporting a wide variety of sites, from
solo practitioners to multi-practice clinics utilizing wide area networks.
Practice Partner is the only company with more than seventeen years of
experience in successfully implementing electronic medical record systems.
Why an Electronic Medical Record?
Electronic Medical Records is the inevitable next step in the continued
progress of healthcare. An EMR is one of the best business and quality of
care investments that a practice can make.
Need more information? The following educational documents address many
of the common questions associated with electronic medical records.
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-- EMR 101
A step by step guide that addresses common questions and concerns in
implementing an electronic medical records system.
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-- The
Business Case for an EMR
How do you justify an investment in electronic medical records? This
white paper examines the ROI of an EMR.
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-- Financing
an EMR
An introduction to the various financing options available for an EMR or
similar technological investments.
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Reducing Medical Errors with an EMR
A comprehensive overview of how an Electronic Medical Record can help
reduce medical errors.
Practice Partner EMR Software -- Benefits
It is clear that a new standard is emerging for medical records. The
electronic medical record is a powerful new tool for improving the quality
of care and enhancing office efficiency. Practice Partner Patient Records
offers a number of clinical and administrative benefits to help your
practice.
An EMR includes a number of features that allow the clinical side of the
practice to operate more efficiently. Patient Records users enjoy these
benefits from their system:
- Improves documentation quality (legible, organized, complete)
- Facilitates better patient communication
- Provides built-in protocols and reminders (including health
maintenance)
- Improves medication management
- Enhances efficiency of signing of charts
The productivity and efficiency gains of an EMR translate into lowering
the hard dollar cost of running a practice. Practice Partner customers
report these as some of their cost benefits:
- Reduces transcription costs
- Lowers labor costs
- Reduces internal/external copying expenses
- Lowers malpractice insurance costs
- Reduces pharmacy costs
In addition to substantial cost savings, an EMR can positively impact the
top line of a practice in a number of ways:
- Improves the completeness of documentation
- Improves coding accuracy
- Increasing the number of services offered
- Boosts the number of visits per day
Successful EMR sites are more efficient than traditional offices. As a
result, the number of FTEs required to support physicians is lower than at
paper based offices. Practice Partner sites report 2.0 to 2.5 FTEs per
doctor, compared to the MGMA average of 4.0. These improvements can be
attributed to the following:
- Reduces chart pulls and less filing
- Allows universal access to the chart (by more than one person at a
time)
- Eliminates time spent searching for lost charts
- Reduces phone tag with patients
- Improves internal office communication
- Reduces call-backs from pharmacies
- Improves compliance with chart requests and chart audits
Practice Partner Patient Records -- Features
Practice Partner Patient Records provides a comprehensive feature set,
coupled with a friendly and intuitive interface. This results in an EMR
system that is powerful enough for any office, yet easy-to-learn and
easy-to-use. Here is a sample of just some of the features contained in
Patient Records:
- Open multiple charts at the same time
- User-definable chart summary field
- MPI capabilities
- Documentation by: free text, pre-defined, or user defined clinical
templates, clinical (QuickText) macros, and/or dictation
- Automatic updates on different sections of chart
- Review allows providers to review unsigned notes, incoming lab data,
reports, and letters
- Over 200 clinical templates
- Clinical templates include E&M codes and AHCPR guidelines
- Easy attachment of images to notes
- Electronic signature documents author of progress note
- Over 700 prescription templates provide dose, alternatives, and
prices for the prescribed medication
- Drug interaction and automatic allergy/intolerance checking 3
medication lists: Current , Ineffective, Historical
- Formulary checking
- Fax prescriptions from Patient Records directly to the pharmacy
- Overdue health maintenance reminder
- Vital Signs data capture
- Lab data can be imported from outside or in-house lab using industry
standard formats (ASTM1238, HL7)
- Abnormal data flag
- Practice Partner has built hundreds of lab interfaces to such labs
as Labcorp, Quest Diagnostics, Cerner and Labdaq
- Intra-office messaging
- Chart info can be e-mailed to consulting physicians
- Missing progress notes
- Unsigned progress notes
- Unsaved progress notes
- Print chart summary
- Print complete patient chart
- Print note by: provider and date all notes
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