 | Electronic Health Records
 Spend more time with patients ... less on charts ... and enjoy greater profitability!
Practice Partner,® our secure electronic health records (EHR) software program, is fully integrated with PDS Cortex™ ... and has the ability to positively impact every aspect of your medical practice.
Whether you’re a single-physician practice or large multi-specialty clinic, Practice Partner will improve your efficiency – and return on investment – immeasurably.
Electronic medical records are consistently more accurate and complete than paper charts.
The Practice Partner electronic health record was developed for physicians by physicians, then refined by feedback from users. Designed like a paper chart, it follows the physician’s normal work flow.
Practice Partner includes progress notes, medication lists, problem lists, past medical history, health maintenance status, images, reports from the laboratory, radiology, EKG and pathology, discharge summaries and user-defined categories.
Practice Partner gives you a complete and legally valid health record with an audit trail.
- Create, store, edit and retrieve patient charts with just a click
- Move the patient from check-in, through the exam and to checkout without ever handling a paper chart
- Enter physician documentation faster than ever before
- Enter data only once
- Replace your paper charts and file cabinets with electronic files
... will permeate your medical practice.
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Patient call-backs, prescription refills or authorizations, and outside requests for charts can be handled easily and quickly. Say goodbye to the hassle!
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Every day you’ll realize more and more ways Practice Partner saves you money.
- Reduced transcription costs
Reduce or eliminate transcription costs by entering patient data directly into the electronic health record.
- Reduced copying expense
E-mail all or part of the chart ... send through the fax server ... or print directly from your computer.
- Reduced malpractice premiums
Enjoy an improved risk profile based on quality of care and documentation.
- Reduced chart and storage expenses
Eliminate costs incurred by paper charts – paper, folders, dividers, filing systems, racks and cabinets – and convert the space into offices or exam rooms.
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More effective patient reminders and good documentation add up to increased profitability.
- Health maintenance
Practice Partner tracks overdue services, such as immunizations and special exams, for each patient ... then generates a letter to these patients. Pop-up reminders can be individualized.
- Improved coding accuracy
Practice Partner makes it easier to provide more accurate codes and complete documentation by providing templates and clinical macros (detailed blocks of text that can be inserted with the push of a button). Automatically pull information from other parts of the chart into the current note.
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... with fewer time-intensive tasks.
- Chart accessibility
Electronic medical records (EMR) are accessible to every authorized staff member – clinical and administrative – from multiple workstations at any time, regardless of others viewing the same chart. Incoming calls can be handled on the fly, improving efficiency and customer service.
- Reduced data entry
With electronic interfaces from laboratories and hospitals, incoming data can be downloaded directly into the patient record, eliminating time-intensive tasks.
- Better communication
The completely secure Intranet E-mail messaging system significantly improves the speed and efficiency of communication among employees and providers. Messages can be documented in the patient record.
- Better response to audits
Chart auditors can check records from a PC. As electronic files result in better chart documentation and organization, Practice Partner installations pass with flying colors.
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... thanks to time-saving features.
- High quality documentation
Call up information, enter data and write prescriptions. And in doing so, all components of the electronic health chart are automatically updated.
- Built-in protocols and reminders
Diagnosis-specific templates offer reminders of special protocols and tests for certain conditions.
Practice Partner automatically flags abnormal test results and health maintenance reminders each time a chart is opened. Or create a database that lists all patients overdue for routine exams or immunizations.
- Improved medication management
Practice Partner faxes a prescription directly to the pharmacy or prints a legible copy ... initiates drug-to-drug and drug-to-allergy interactions against an updated medication list ... automatically documents the prescription in a progress note ... and checks the drug against the patient’s formulary.
- Robust query features
With its relational database, Practice Partner allows you to query your records for reports. In the event of a drug recall, you could draw up a list to quickly and easily notify all patients who are taking that medication.
- Patient education
Generate invaluable patient education tools from your computer.
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Automatically export and import data from the progress note. Progress notes can be created in pre-formatted notes, by dictation or from a voice-recognition system.
Practice Partner has built-in security to protect both your medical practice and your patients.
- All charts are protected by passwords. You can define access and privileges by staff level ... and further restrict access to specific segments of the record. Entire electronic medical charts can be restricted to certain providers.
- Chart changes in all text records are tracked through an audit trail.
- The physician’s electronic signature is protected by a five-digit code.
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