Patient Medical Records

• E-Prescribing- Writing medication prescriptions from the EHR System and sending the script through a secure portal to the pharmacy. Receiving prescription request from the pharmacy through the EHR Software.
• Allergies- Creating an Allergy list for each patient in which the system will automatically cross reference when sending a medication.
• E-Encounters- Electronic form that resembles your Superbill, Encounter Form, or Fee Sheet. To allow for a favorites list in the system that applies to your practice.
• Tasks- The ability to send task to individuals within the office. Also a portal in which the provider can receive and review RX Request and Lab Results.

I recently began using financial software to better track my spending and keep my financial goals in sight. I can see all of my transactions and see when & where I spent money as well as what types of categories my spending falls into. I have minimal accounting knowledge, but I can already see that this software will allow me to have a much tighter grasp on my finances and will give me more information than I ever thought possible.

I chose to use this software, but I could easily function without it. Medical Practice Billing Software, on the other hand, is nearly essential for a practice to compete in today's market. Luckily, Bradford Scott has a perfect software solution for your practice, regardless of your size or patient volume. Our newest prouduct, Intergy by Sage is designed around an accounting system model. Your financial information will be extremely secure, and all transactions will have a built-in audit log that you can easily view at anytime. 

The best part about Intergy is the awesome support you will receive from Bradford Scott Medical. Our trainers and technical staff will help you through every step of your transition to our system, and will help you to get the most out of your software. 
If Intergy sounds like something your practice could use, contact Bradford Scott Medical today.

Sage Intergy EHR V5.5 is CCHIT 2008 certified and is designed to complement the clinical approach of your practice. With the local presence of Bradford-Scott Data Corporation to ensure you get the proper hand holding needed and the national backing of Sage Software to continue to keep this product on the leading edge of technology; this is a duo that is untouched.

The latest Intergy EHR release focuses on maximizing clinical connectivity in order to optimize your patient’s experience and enhance your bottom line. Intergy EHR does this by touching every aspect of your practice, from enhancing patient care to maximizing billing procedures.

• Guideline-driven care for preventive measures and treatments protocols
• Advanced clinical flow-sheets provide a view of a patient’s progress and treatment effectiveness
• ePrescribing enhances accuracy and provides interaction alerts
• Orders & Tasks allow you to easily create and track orders such as mammograms, blood tests, etc.
• Drug Utilization Review (DUR) On Demand and ePrescribing provide you instant access to drug interaction information
• Clinical record summary for Interoperability improves efficiency by sharing information
• Automated patient visit templates improve documentation & analyze coding
• Patient Privacy options ensure the security of sensitive patient data
• Specialty specific product features provide tools designed for your practice

• 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.

• Receive General Practice Information
• Request an Appointment
• Request a Prescription Refill
• Submit New Patient Registration Forms and Pre-Visit Questionnaires
• View their lab results, immunization data, medications, health conditions, and more

 

Many physicians know about the current proposal for the EMR Stimulus package, but question what the difference is between the Medicaid Incentives and the Medicare Incentives.  Although both of these packages seem great, you will need to decide which package will work best for your office.

The Medicaid Incentives and Requirements are as follows:
 

• Must be a Physician, Dentist, Certifies Nurse Midwife, Nurse Practitioner, or Physician Assistant (In a Rural Health Clinic or FQHC lead by a Physician Assistant)
• Have a minimum of 30% medicaid patient mix (20% for pediatricians)
• Begins in 2011
• May receive up to $63,750 over a 6 year period
• 1st year cost no later than 2016
• No payments made after 2021 or more than 5 years
• No Medicaid penalty for failure to demonstrate Meaningful Use
• Does not require Meaningful Use the first year as long as you can demonstrate you are adopting, implementing, or upgrading

• Must be a Doctor of Medicine or Osteopathy, Doctor of Dental Surgery or Dental Medicine, Dr. of Podiatric Medicine, Doctor of Optometry, or a Chiropractor
• Begins in 2011
• May receive up to $44,000 over a 5 year period
• Incentive based on percentage of Medicare allowable
• Must prove meaningful use for all patients, not just Medicare patients
• Incentive payments end in 2015
• Penalty reductions on Medicare reimbursements if not proving Meaningful Use starting in 2015 (1% a year capped at 3%)

• 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. Less trips to the doctor's office - When we can email our doctors instead of having to set appointments for every little thing, like a prescription refill, we will be saving time and money!  Less time taken off of work, less money spent in gas, and less time spent waiting in the lobby will always be positives in my book.
2. Access to your medical records on vacation - With EHR technology being rapidly embraced, it's just a matter of time before doctors and hospitals will be able to share our medical records.  If I'm off getting married in Vegas, and I need to seek medical attention, my doctor from the Hoosier state can send my info with a touch of a button.  I don't know about you, but I don't like having to re-take tests and blood work if I don't have to!
3. No more leaving messages and calling back for lab results - How many times have you called for your results, only to be told to call back later?  Wouldn't it be nice if we could just log on and see the results for ourselves?  Very nice!
4. No more hauling X-rays and medical files - If we are referred to a specialist, that physician will need our past records, tests, and/or X-rays.  But what id they could just retrieve them like a digital picture?  No more sorting through papers, waiting for faxes, or hauling them yourself.
5. Prescriptions - When prescriptions are transmitted electronically, the system automatically checks for interactions and correct dosage.  Do you go to more then one doctor for more than one reason?  Now you don't have to worry if the pharmacist will catch it.  Electronic prescriptions have saved millions already, and the doctor gets a kick-back right now from Medicare, what's not to love?

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.
 

• Immunization Registry Downloads - An automated report that can be uploaded to a state immunization registry for consolidated tracking (like CHIRP in Indiana)
• Patient Age Display has been enhanced to show hours, days, weeks, and months of age depending on child's age
• Practice Portal - major enhancements allowing attachments, secure patient information reports, and added performance
• New reports including Patients by Vaccine, Consolidated ERA Reports, Cardio Patient Matching, Health Center Quarterly Report, and more

Bradford-scott Data Corporation is the midwest's largest Practice Managment and EHR vendor and is proud to offer Intergy by Sage as our EHR and practice managment solution. Bradford-Scott proudly serves the greater five state area of Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan and Kentucky with practice management and EHR/EMR software. Some larger recent Intergy clients in Illinois include the following:

• Sage North America today announced that Danville Polyclinic, Ltd., the largest comprehensive multi-specialty clinic in Danville, Ill., has chosen Sage Intergy EHR for its electronic documentation needs across 40 providers.

 Danville Polyclinic, which services as many as 1,000 patient encounters a day, was searching for the following:

•  Looking to employ an electronic health record (EHR) solution that would improve coding accuracy and reportability

• They also wanted to streamline workflow processes, ultimately enabling the clinic to enhance the quality of care for its patients.

• Implementation of Sage Intergy EHR throughout the practice will be complete in May 2010, per Sage.

Sandy Knauer director of Information services states, "We've been very impressed with Sage throughout our history using Sage Intergy Practice Management and Sage Practice Analytics," ... "When we made the decision to roll out an electronic health records system, Sage was the obvious choice; not only from an integration perspective but also for Intergy's ease-of-use and robust features." So if you are a medical provider in Illinois searching for an EHR or practice managment solution why not contact Bradford-Scott about EMR adoption, BSDC will be happy to assist you with your Illinois EMR and practice management needs. For more information please feel free to visit our website WWW.bradfordscott.com or call Monica to schedule a demo at (317) 713-2065 or (800)963-2732.

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.  

• Quickly create/view any prescription
• Improved patient care - decreased errors and pharmacy calls
• DUR checks  
• Formularies for insurance plans
• Electronic requests from the pharmacy for refills