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| Physician |
| Documentation Principles |
- Clear & precise narrative presentation
- Familiar charting format
- Fast documentation
- Point & click navigation with minimal typing
- Integrated with nurse charting
- Customizable without programming
- Easy & familiar Windows® interface
- No tabs
- Legible
- Extremely thorough
- Reimbursement substantiation
- HIPAA ready
- Access controls
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| Patient Care Support |
- Vast emergency medicine database with hundreds of thousands of medical data elements (physical findings, diagnoses, medications, procedures)
- Quick, almost instant, documentation of common clinical practice patterns
- Clinical support intelligence
- Automated diagnostic reasoning
- Differential diagnosis derivation
- Automated medical decision making
- Medication dosing based on patient age & weight
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| Automated Features |
- Medical record security
- Patient tracking updates as clinicians chart
- Waiting room patient status
- Extensive charting prompts
- Bi-directional communication with ancillary departments/systems
- Diagnostic and procedure coding
- Simultaneous ordering of diagnostic studies, medicines and non-medicine interventions
- Prescription faxed to pharmacy
- Record copies autofaxed to PMD
- Physician electronic signature
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| Tasks Eliminated |
- Chart pulls
- Illegible handwritten charts
- Redundant reporting documentation
- Dictation
- Virtually all paperwork
- Confusion over status and location of charts, patients and orders
- Most verbal and all handwritten communication between nurses, physicians and secretaries
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| Costs Saved |
- Paper charting costs (NCRs, templates)
- Transcription expenses ($7 and more per chart)
- Documentation time savings
- Intra-department communication time savings
- Coding expenses ($2 and more per chart)
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