Practice Parnter EMR / EHR
Uptime Consulting has been working closely with McKesson's Practice Partner EMR software. We currently support many sites in Southern California running this software for their medical practices.
Practice Partner's award winning, certified electronic health records (EHR) is helping over 25,000 providers do more for their patients with less effort. Practices across the nation of all sizes and specialties are successfully using our EMR to help them improve quality of care and their bottom-line productivity and profitability.
Practice Partner includes three powerful applications, which are available individually or together as Total Practice Partner:
- Practice Partner Patient Records (Electronic Medical Record Software)
- Practice Partner Medical Billing (Practice Management and Billing Software)
- Practice Partner Appointment Scheduler
When most people mention Practice Partner they are referring to the popular and widely used Electronic Medical Recordaspect of the software. The EMR portion of Practice Partner has been integrated with Medisoft Medical Billing Softwarefor a complete EMR package called Medisoft Clinical. It has also been integrated with Lytec Billing Software and is calledLytec MD.
Bright Note Technology
At the core of Practice Partner software is Bright Note Technology. One Note. One Touch. The beauty of the system lies within the simplicity. Bright Note’s dynamic processing technology enables physicians to capture patient data in a single note. With one touch the information is instantly synchronized across the entire patient chart eliminating the need for extra work and double entry.
By matching your preferred charting style you can chart the way you want to. Based on your preference we will implement with one of the following options, all of which utilize Bright Note Technology:
- Use customized templates on a TabletPC or a PC to chart in real-time during a patient encounter.
- Take advantage of the ability to support advanced speech recognition to dictate the note directly into the software, including the ability to pull in data from other sections of the chart or update other sections of the chart automatically using Bright Note Technology. For example, by saying "Insert Medications" the current medications and allergies for the Patient will automatically display in the note. By stating the diagnosis in the note Bright Note Technology will automatically synchronize the Patient's Problem list and Chart Summary sections of the chart, and push the diagnosis over to billing at the same time. Using Voice Commands and Bright Note Technology allows doctors to complete a note faster than they could dictate it, and the chart is filed and updated with searchable Discrete Data all at once. One Note. One touch sets everything in motion!
- For providers that want to continue dictating and using a transcriptionist we recommend Bright Dictation. Providers dictate the way they normally do and we teach their transcriptionist one simple code to add to their transcribed note. The transcriptionist can send back one text file with all of their transcribed notes in it, and using Bright Dictation Technology the practice can import that file into Practice Partner. With just a few clicks all of the patient's charts are updated with the new progress notes, and the provider's dashboard displays the list of notes to be reviewed and digitally signed in their Note Review bin. Edits can be made right then and there as the file is being reviewed.
Order Entry
Managing and tracking orders is a critical part of patient care and is a very difficult process for those on paper charts. Practice Partner Order Entry facilitates the creation, fulfillment and tracking of orders for services such as laboratory, radiology, pathology, immunizations, EKGs, and virtually any other type of physician order. This application helps reduce data entry errors due to illegible and incomplete information. And when the order is created it pulls in useful information such as patient insurance plan rules, order-specific diagnosis codes and order-specific patient and processor instructions.
Order Entry has the ability to send orders electronically or print them to a form. Once the order is created and sent, it updates the progress note and goes into the order-tracking bin where providers can track its status. Practice Partner Order Entry allows you to create provider-specific order trees that contain the orders you are most likely to initiate. The order tree is tailored to personal preferences so that common orders are readily available. You can also configure order sets to initiate several orders as a group.
Key Benefits:
- An efficient and complete order initiation process
- Real-time order tracking and management
- Comprehensive reporting on order activities
- Complete documentation of the order process
- Reduce data entry errors when ordering
- Patient/Doctor communication during the order process
- Provides a paperless ordering system
Key Features:
- Set user authorizations qualifications
- Order ancillary services or laboratory data from the progress note or order tree
- Configure order trees and order sets to meet specific provider needs
- Define when a routine becomes overdue
- Create custom forms to match printed forms for various facilities
- View the cost of each order or order set
- Create operator and patient instructions
- Send orders electronically to processing facilities
- Require orders have pre-authorization from insurance carriers
- Checks insurance sensitivity for facilities and diagnosis codes
- Checks Medical Necessity and provides an ABN form for Medicare
- Automatically track the date, time and signature of orders
- Real-time order analysis and overdue orders reporting
- Generate reports to analyze turnaround times for orders based on specific providers or patients
Other Exciting Features and Add-On Products:
- 200 Clinical Templates come standard in the software
- Specialty Templates including Chiropractic, Podiatry, Orthopedic, and Urology Templates
- Clinical Tools includes Drug Therapy Support Databases (drug interaction, dose advisor, drug diagnosis and drug disease checking), Prescription Templates and Clinical Templates (progress note, letter and message templates).
- Dragon Naturally Speaking is voice recognition software integrated with Practice Partner that saves physicians lots of money by no longer having to use a costly transcriptionist.
- Instant Medical History is an application that allows a patient to enter her complete present illness, review of systems and medical history information prior to the patient visit- either online or at a kiosk in the waiting room.
- E-Prescribe (eRx) allows physicians to transmit a new prescription or a renewal directly to the pharmacy electronically. No more faxing or writing out prescriptions or spending unnecessary time filling prescriptions.
- Integrated Fax Server allows you to fax anything directly from Practice Partner and even more important- receive faxes electronically so you don't have to scan faxes into the chart.
- Practice Partner Research Network (PPRNet) is a practice-based research network facilitating collaborative research among physicians on Practice Partner.
- Webview is a patient portal that allows physicians to share Patient Records online safely and conveniently.
- Zoom is a document management application easing the scanning process and easily linking documents to patient records.
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