Medical Charting Software

• Customize list of vitals, findings, and lab results to show on the patients flowchart. in the Patient Records System.

• Graphing- Display a visual graph of the change in a component of the flowsheet over time. You can graph one item or several items together.

• Medication Duration- The screen will display the medications that the patient is taking in comparison to the items that you are tracking in your flowsheet. This will quickly show the provider how the medication is affecting the patients findings.

• Growth Chart- There is a built in growth chart that will plot and child's height and weight automatically.

• Supported EM Coding using a built in E&M Calculator.
• EHR Stimulus Money is waiting for you!
• Convenience of having all your patient medical records at your fingertips.
• DUR review to notify you of any drug interactions that may occur.
• Paperless Electronic Patient Charting.
• Backing of the Medcin Database.
• E-Prescribing
• Integrated product with Medical Insurance Billing Software.

1. Start the visit without your computer to maintain that patient doctor relationship
2. Face the patient with the laptop or tablet on your lap. This way it is easier to look at the patient from time to time and try to keep that patient relationship strong. 
3. Practice, Practice, Practice...before going live on the EMR system take a few visits from each day and enter into the system. It may be extra time added to your work day but will make you feel more confident when the patient is in front of you.
4. Only choose certain visits and start slow. Do not plan on documenting a whole days worth of patients visits your first day, most likely you will get frustrated and quit using it all together.
5. Do not get hung up on one particular finding that you want to document and cannot find. Write it down and then ask your support team later.

A few years ago you could mention the acronym EMR and nobody knew what you were talking about. Today you mention EMR and everybody knows what it is, and it does not matter if you are speaking with a medical professional or patient. So what is the point of EMR and how can you benefit from implementing your Electronic Medical Records System?

Electronic Medical Records are used to create better tracking and reporting on patient care to ultimately allow providers to better care for their patients. One of the major features is the Health Maintenance piece. This feature will automatically put the patient in a preventative group of health guidelines based on age and sex. It will also apply a set of care condition guidelines based on the patients problem list.

The doctor is reminded of these care guidelines every time a patent's chart is accessed. As these guidelines are satisfied they will be removed from the list until they are due again. This feature is key to ensure that your patients are being treated for everything that is needed for them individually.

There are many other features of Electronic Medical Records that provide better care to patients. Health Maintenance is just one many. Contact Bradford-Scott Data Corp for more information.
 

Look around your office and notice all the stacks of paper everywhere. With an integrated EMR system all the stacks of paper can be eliminated through document imaging.  Most EMR vendors will discuss converting your paper chart into an electronic chart. However they do not focus on all the other paper documents in the office. Each Medical office receives, radiology reports, discharge letters, referral letters, lab results, and many other items daily in a paper format.

Bradford-Scott Data Corp has an EMR product that can convert all your paper into electronic files no matter how they get to your office. There are many items that come into the office through fax. With a faxing solution these items can be directly imported into the system and sent to the doctor for review and stored in the patient chart. 

Another way to cut out the paper is to receive your Radiology reports,  Ultrasounds, hospital reports, and an other paper documentation on an cd and then import them into the system using the imaging feature in your EMR system.

Your Medical Office can even go a step further and scan in all their EOB's into an electronic file cabinet. So can staff information, patient education, and doctors registration. Security settings within the EMR system can be set to only all certain people to see certain types of documents.

The opportunities to eliminate paper in your office are endless. You will not only make it easier to find the medical records you are looking for, but also help environment by cutting back on the use of paper. Electronic Medical Records Systems make it easy to organize your office.  

• create and submit lab orders electronically
• print the requisition
• receive the results electronically
• system automatically post results to the patient chart and sends a task for the doctor to review them.
• view test results in a flowsheet or graph format

• Patient Registration
• Medication Lists
• Patient Visits
• Labs
• X-Rays
• Correspondence

These days most physicians are being lured to electronic health records (EHR) with Federal Stimulus money.  What they should really be lured by are the true beneficial reasons for adopting EHR.
 

1.  Better Access:  Never look for a chart again, information at your finger tips, access the chart remotely, etc...

2.  Better Documentation:  Legible documents, updating patient meds and problems at each visit, patients able to update medical history from home and have information downloaded into your EHR, import discrete data from labs, hospitals, etc...

3.  Better Care Management:  Ability to track patient health maintenance with alerts to remind clinical staff of overdue labs, x rays, etc...

4. Better Prescribing:  Less time spent speaking with pharmacists, electronically send scripts to pharmacy, refill scripts in seconds, catch important drug interactions and ability to pull a group of patients for a recalled drug.

5.  Greater Efficiency:  Electronic tasking, batch form letters, eliminate time copy charts, reduce transcription, eliminate chart costs, etc...

6. Higher Income:  Qualify for pay for performance (PFP) bonuses, capture all your charges at time of service, re assign your transcriptionist and filing clerk to help with collections, confidently code at higher levels, etc...

These are 6 good reasons why physicians should be adopting EHR!  To learn more about how an EHR can increase your revenues, reduce your costs and become more efficient, contact Bradford Scott Data Corporation today!

There are many features in our Electronic Medical Records Software that I really like and the seem to be very easy for the doctors to use. However there is one feature the EMR System has that seems to get overlooked and that is the OB Chart.

Now I 39 weeks pregnant and about to pop, so maybe I take special interest in this feature for my own personal reasons. But since the OB Medical Practices use standard forms for patient charting, the programmers were able to develop screens that mimic these forms. Electronic Patient Charting for OB visits could not be made easier.



































It is extremely easy to track each patent's visits through their 40 weeks of pregnancy and view them all in this one screen. You can also track all lab results, Ultrasounds, health risk, and tests. It will even provide forms for the doctor to enter the patent's delivery information and postpartum visits that will also display on this main screen.

I know a lot of offices will keep separate charts for OB patient during their term. This system will even allow the doctor do do this. Even though all the information is available to the doctor it will display all the OB information together in a separate area.

This is just one of the EMR System that Bradfordscott has to offer.

 

• Medical Billing Software
• Electronic Medical Records
• Claims Billing Software
• Electronic Statements
• Practice Portal
• Lab Portal Transmission
• Patient Portal
• Electronic Prescriptions
• Electronic Patient Charting
• Document Imaging
• Voice Recognition Software
• Computer Hardware

• Improved and accurate documentation of patient care - everyone being able to read the prescription or your encounter note decreases errors.
• Messages for patient care (ex. rx refills, test results)- again documented in the system, not on sticky notes that get lost.
• Patient chart with information available at a click of a button to multiple users, not left in the trunk of the car.
• With our SAGE Intergy EHR software, the Medcin database calculates the level of the office visit based on the findings you selected or cited during the visit.   

• Correspondence for the patient to get Orders completed at a hospital or radiology facility.
• Correspondence that will thank a patient for coming in and give them a copy of the doctors suggested plan.
• There is also correspondence that refers a patient to another doctor.
• Specialty correspondence that pulls in a summary of the patients diagnosis and plan to send back to their referring doctor or medical practice.

There are many features in our EHR system that make documenting a provider-patient visit easier and more efficient. When you are shopping EMR Systems you will hear about meaningful use, e-prescribing, customized encounter notes, and EM coding, Practice Portal, however there are a lot of small features that can make your practice much more efficient that nobody ever looks for.

Here is a list of just of few of the smaller features that you should look for in an EHR system:
 

• Tasking- the ability to send task to other people and yourself, even record the work on the patients chart.
• Phone Messaging- no sense in tracking down the doctor to answer a quick question, send him a phone message in the system
• Profile picture- taking a picture of the patient to put in the EHR system to help the doctor remember what patient he is about to see.
• Medscape interface- Pulls patient education on their diagnosis which can be easily printed to hand to the client.
• Flowcharts- there are customizable flowcharts to document lab results with a medication dosage report alongside to show how a certain medication has affected a patients health.
• Health Maintenance- a list of preventative care items according to the patients age and needs that will generate reminders for the providers and that patients to keep up on their preventative care.
• Intertrop- the ability to pull in patient charts from a referring doctor electronically and import them into your EHR system