EMR software for family practice primary care

June 24, 2010 - PRLog -- Overview
The primary care physician (or PCP), is usually the first physician/medical doctor contacted by a person with illness as well as continuing care of variety of medical conditions. Primary care physicians are increasingly looking to technology to help them manage their practices more efficiently, while improving patient care. An EMR / EHR system can help the primary care practice "go paperless" and improve record keeping. In addition e-prescribing, lab integration, clinical decision support, billing, scheduling, mobile access and other features can provide all contribute to increased administrative efficiency and better patient care.

Software
NewCreationIT provides primary-care EMR Software for use in solo practices, small clinics, medical centers, and hospitals. NewCreationIT works with Physicians to provide a solution that works best for their practice in terms of cost, accessibility, features and long-term goals. We leverage robust open source healthcare information systems with all key features required for practice management, patient registration, scheduling, medical billing, medical records, medications, prescriptions, laboratory, orders, reports, etc. This ensures that cost is kept low and there are no recurring license fees.

The system supports the PCPs's  fucntions including basic diagnosis and non-surgical treatment of common illnesses and medical conditions. The EMR system supports typical workflow in a PCP's office such as interviewing the patient to collect information on the present symptoms, prior medical history and other health details, followed by a physical examination. Where required basic medical testing, such as interpreting results of blood or other patient samples, electrocardiograms, or x-rays are also supported. Recording of treatment plans, including (if appropriate) components of further testing, specialist referrals, medications, therapy, diet or life-style changes, patient education, and follow up results of treatment are also supported. Other screening tests, immunizations, etc are also included.

Configuration
NewCreationIT provides the software configuration that you are comfortable with and which works best for your primary-care practice. These options include:
1. Client-server: The EMR software is installed within your primary-care practice and on your computers.
2. Hosted Client-server:  We host the server in the client server system in a secure data center and physicians and staff within your primary-care practice accesses the system using a Virtual Private Network (VPN) over the Internet.
3. EMR in the Cloud, Web-based, Fully Hosted:  We also offer fully web-based, multi-tiered EMR software and your staff accesses the software using a web-browser over the Internet. This is commonly referred to as Cloud Computing.

Customization
We provide a fully customized EMR and EHR software for your primary-care practice. Unlimited clinical and administrative forms can be created with custom fields and data elements to suit the way you like to work. You can indicate what features you want or do not want to have: drug-drug interaction, allergy, dose and drug effect checking. The prescriptions wizard enables quick prescriptions with dose and dispensing instructions. Any number of Lab tests and Lab orders can be set up. Billing allows manual charges to be recorded for patients. Reports can be developed according to the needs of the medical center or practice. Additional features such as interfaces to lab equipment, management of radiology images (DICOM/PACS), point of sale bar code scanning and electronic ordering can be readily added. A primary-care EMR workflow system to track pending tasks in real time, e.g. which patients are waiting where, how long, for what, and who is responsible, can be included. This data can be used to improve patient care and service delivery by all providers. A web-based patient portal enables patient self-registration and message interaction with their physician.

Why Customized Software?
Simply put "one size does not fit all"! You run your practice the way you like it. You have your own forms and data that you like to gather. Your personal touch and the way you do things is what differentiates you. So why give this up to fit into a mold that is forced on you. Most off-the-shelf commercial software offer highly complex products which are mostly underused or not properly applied in clinical practice. You end up paying for a lot of features you do not need or are not exactly the way you want them.

What about hosted, ready-to-run software?
Not something to consider unless you are willing to give up on your key differentiators and settle to fit the mold.  Further, data extraction for analysis and customized reporting to facilitate practice based research and process improvements are either not possible or will be difficult to do when your data is outside your reach. NewCreationIT hosts your solution just for you. The software, along with the entire database is secure and is available anytime for your practice.

Standards & Certification
We follow industry standards to ensure HIPAA compliance, data set standards (HL7 Version 3.x, HL7 EHR), use of CPT and ICD-10 coding, and ANSI X12 standards for electronic data interchange (EDI). Depending on your region, medical billing software components, claims processing and ePrescription (eRx) will be customized as required. For practices in the USA, Regulatory Reporting to demonstrate meaningful use for 2011 Measures and ARRA/HITECH HHS certification will be included.

Cost
NewCreationIT will work with primary-care physicians and primary-care practices to customize and deploy the primary-care EMR solution for their medical practice at very low costs. Since we use open-source software practices will have to only pay for the services involved in customization and deployment. There are no ongoing licensing fees, etc.

For a primary-care EMR/EHR software implementation plan and cost, please contact us at: business@newcreationit.com

NewCreationIT is a leading provider of technology solutions that transform both the clinical and financial aspects of healthcare delivery. NewCreationIT leverages its software development center in Bangalore, India to deliver world-class, custom solutions for medical practices, at amazingly low costs. To learn more about our company, our services and how we can assist your business, please contact us: business@newcreationit.com

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NewCreationIT.com specializes in the design, implementation, deployment and support of electronic health records (EHR), EMR Software and medical practice management software for individual physicians, speciality centers, large hospitals & small clinics.