Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Medisoft Clinical Helps Improve Patient Safety

By Harry E Selent

The electronic medical record software (EMR) component of Medisoft EMR Clinical is a proven EMR software that has helped thousands of practices like yours provide exceptional quality of care while improving financial performance.

Introducing Medisoft Clinical " A complete Medisoft EMR Software solution. With the latest Medisoft release, McKesson now offers Medisoft Clinical, a complete practice management/electronic medical record (PM/EMR) solution that works seamlessly together to minimize practice disruption. Medisoft Clinical combines the practice management features of Medisoft v15 with a fully functional EMR at a price point geared to smaller physician practices like yours. With Medisoft Clinical, you get the latest in practice automation without a lot of hassle and at a price you can afford.

You can have the best of all worlds with a comprehensive PM/EMR program that lets you easily and efficiently carry out crucial tasks like: *Populating patient demographic information to avoid repetitive data entry; *Automatically alerting medical staff when a patient is ready to be seen; *Creating an electronic master bill automatically populated with ICD-9 and CPT-4 codes based on information from the provider's SOAP notes.

Like most medical offices, your practice probably uses McKesson's Medisoft practice management (PM) system or something similar to streamline the automation of certain office tasks like billing, accounts receivable, and scheduling. Don't miss the opportunity to take your practice to a higher level with the electronic medical record (EMR) system software included in Medisoft Clinical's latest release. This fully automated system will make your practice both more efficient and more convenient by eliminating unnecessary paperwork, providing you with tools for increasing the quality of care, and cutting unnecessary costs.

High level efficiency: Medisoft Clinical is set apart from other EMR systems as a result of its unique design that automates completion of the entire chart from a progress note. When information like drugs, lab results, and vital signs is added to the note, the rest of the chart will automatically be updated.

Flexible documentation tools allow for adaptation to the provider's preferences and provide a choice of data entry methods, including: templates, speech recognition, transcription, digital pen, dictation, online patient data entry.

A provider dashboard lets you view all critical information " including messages, incoming results and a daily patient schedule " in one place. In addition, a review bin provides at-a-glance viewing of notes, documents and lab results. Physicians also are able to quickly see overdue orders and track each order by patient, status and expected time for a result to return. In addition, incoming results automatically update order status.

Quality performance " Medisoft Clinical gives you everything you need within easy reach to provide the best possible patient care. Its complete knowledge base offers: -Web-based access to hundreds of disease and prescription protocols; -A broad selection of progress note templates for both primary and specialty care applications; -Tailored health protocols specific to a patient's age, sex, disease history, medications taken, and other patient-specific parameters.

Improve safety: Ensure patient safety and streamline prescriptions and prescription refills with the use of electronic prescription software (SureScripts and RxHub). The program includes thousands of individual prescription templates, plus a complete database of medication costs and important checks like drug interactions, drug allergies, disease contraindications, diagnoses, and targeted, proactive dosage recommendations.

Provider tools: Note analysis for optimal coding using a quality coding adviser for Evaluation and Management codes referencing both the 1995 and 1997 CMS Documentation Guidelines. Text loading capability for filling in the entire patient chart including the problem list, medications list, patient medical history, and vital signs. Correct placement of partial visit dictation transcriptions within the proper position in the note. Chart summary import and export capabilities in CCD and CCR formats. Easy interface with other medical offices' EMR systems, or with a patient's personal health record. Easy updating of chart sections while importing data, with the ability to keep a complete copy of the imported document. The ability to customize chart views based on provider preferences and specialty areas for charts, chart summaries, and flow charts. - 15634

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