Features and Benefits
Patient Records
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:
Complete Electronic Medical Records system (EMR)
- Open multiple charts at the same time
- User-definable chart summary field
- MPI capabilities
Progress Note Functionality
- 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
Prescription Writer
- 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
Health Maintenance
- Overdue health maintenance reminder
- Vital Signs data capture
Laboratory Data
- 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
Messaging
- Intra-office messaging
- Chart info can be e-mailed to consulting physicians
Reporting
- Missing progress notes
- Unsigned progress notes
- Unsaved progress notes
- Print chart summary
- Print complete patient chart
- Print note by: provider and date all notes
Improves Clinical Efficiency, Patient Care, and Service
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
Reduces Costs
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
Enhances Revenue
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
Boosts Administrative Efficiency
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