Medisoft EMR Software Tailored for Small Medical Practices
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Written by Harry E Selent   
Saturday, 28 February 2009 10:24
Many small physician practices have benefitted from the capabilities of the proven Medisoft EMR Clinical software package. The electronic medical record (EMR) component of the software assists providers in delivering high quality care while increasing efficiency and reducing cost.
by HarryESelent


Many small physician practices have benefitted from the capabilities of the proven Medisoft EMR Clinical software package. The electronic medical record (EMR) component of the software assists providers in delivering high quality care while increasing efficiency and reducing cost.

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.

Chances are your practice currently uses McKesson's Medisoft practice management (PM) system or another solution to automate your scheduling, billing and accounts receivable processes. It's time to take the next step. By adding an electronic medical record (EMR) like the one in Medisoft Clinical, you can ultimately replace all paper in your practice to achieve maximum office efficiency, improve financial performance and enhance quality of care.

Ultimate efficiency: Medisoft Clinical distinguishes itself from other EMRs through its innovative note-centered design that lets physicians complete the whole chart from a progress note. Any information that is added to the note " including medications, vital signs, and lab results " will automatically update the entire chart.

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 comprehensive and easy-to-understand dashboard provides easy access to all important information, including messages, incoming test results, and daily patient schedules. All of this information is easily visible in one place. What's more, a review bin allows for quick viewing of notes, documents, and lab results. Physicians can quickly see past-due orders and track all orders by patient, status, and expected result turn-around time. For added convenience, incoming results will automatically update the order status.

Improve quality " Medisoft Clincal provides easy access so that you'll have at your fingertips all of the information necessary for providing high-quality care. Its comprehensive knowledge base includes: -Online access to hundreds of disease and pharmaceutical protocols; -a wide variety of progress note templates for primary care and specialty cases; -health maintenance protocols tailored to patient age, sex, disease status, medications, and other information specific to a particular patient.

Ensure safety: Enhance patient safety and speed up the process of new prescriptions and refills through electronic prescriptions (using SureScripts and RxHub). Physicians and other medical providers can access thousands of unique prescription templates, along with a complete database of medication prices and checks " medication interactions, medication allergies, drug/disease, drug/diagnosis " with tailored, proactive dosage suggestions.

Physician tools: Analyze the note with a sophisticated coding advisor for Evaluation and Management codes using both the 1995 and 1997 CMS Documentation; Guidelines to optimize coding based on documentation. Load transcribed text and populate the entire patient chart including the problem list, medication list, medical histories and vital signs. Partially dictate a visit and have the transcribed text automatically go to the correct place in the note. Import and export chart summary data using CCD or CCR formats. Communicate with other practices' EMRs or with the patient's personal health record (PHR). When importing data, choose which chart sections to update while still keeping an entire copy of the imported document. Customize chart viewing by physician to allow provider (and specialty) specific views for charts, chart summaries and flow charts.

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