OB/GYN EMR system : EHR software for Maternity Care

June 26, 2009 - PRLog -- Ob gyn EMR : Maternity Care Information System - for Hospitals and Small Practices
Obstetrics and Gynecology (Maternity Hospital Management System, Maternity Care Information System)

Under the federal health IT incentive programs and the stimulus package, beginning in 2011, physicians who demonstrate "meaningful use" of electronic health records (EHR) could qualify for up to $44,000 in Medicare incentive payments. In 2015, the government will enact penalties for health care providers who have failed to demonstrate meaningful use.

While there are a large number of EHR systems such systems often cost $32,000 per physician or upwards.

Currently small physician practices provide nearly 75% of ambulatory care in the USA. Many of these small medical practices lack sufficient resources to implement EHRs or improve their quality of care.

The Veterans Health Administration's open-source electronic health record system VistA is a fully integrated, enterprise-wide healthcare information system that has been developed and used for the past 20 years by the Veterans Health Administration, the largest, centrally directed, healthcare system in the U.S. VistA has been deployed in about 1,500 care sites and its open-source derivative OpenVistA, whose source code is freely available could be an effective and low-cost option small medical practices.

NewCreationIT will work with single physicians or small medical practices to customize and deploy OpenVistA for their medical practice at very low costs. Medical billing software components, claims processing, enhanced EMR, ePrescription, Regulatory Reporting to demonstrate meaningful use and CCHIT certification (site-level certification) and other additional features can be added without restrictions to OpenVistA. Since the software is free, practices will have to only pay for the services involved in deploying, customizing and support.

OpenVistA can be customized for Obstetrics and Gynecology.

The following are the features for a OB/GYN EMR (Maternity Care Information System) for integrated maternity patient care.

The System will have two main modules, Practice Management module and Maternity Charts.

PRACTICE MANAGEMENT
This module will handle all the basic aspects of managing a medical practice. Initially this will consist of:
1, Patient Registration
2, Patient information
- Personal Information
- Medical history
- Health and family history
- Past Pregnancies / Obstertic history
- Current Pregnancy status
3, Patient Scheduling
Other features that could be added to Practice Management can include:
4, Patient Billing
5, Pharmacy

MATERNITY CHARTS
This module essentially contains all aspects of clinical notes of the mother during pregnancy, during labor and delivery and immediately following delivery, along with the care of the new born.
An important feature of the Maternity Charts is the management of Ultrasonography images to record and monitor fetal development.

A) Obstetric Case Record : Antepartum/Prenatal Care
- patient notes
- treatment summary
- investigations
- lifestyle changes review
- birth plan
- review pregnancy care plan
- problems in pregnancy
- Ultrasonography Management (including PACS/DICOM)
- Successive pregnancies management

B) Obstetric Case Record : Intrapartum (during labor and delivery)
- clinical notes during onset of labour, assessment in labour, delivery, method of delivery, staff present, baby status, etc.
- Record of anaesthetics, anaesthetic procedures, antenatal anaesthetic review, postnatal anaesthetic review
- procedures if any, assisted delivery, operative procedure

C) Obstetric Case Record : Labour & Delivery Report

D) Obstetric Case Record : Postnatal care
- postnatal review
- mother’s examination
- baby’s examination

E) Obstetric Case Record : Outcomes / Discharge Summary
- non-registerable birth
- outborn summary
- death of child
- maternal death
- administrative closure of pregnancy record
- clinical closure of pregnancy record

For an OpenVistA implementation plan and our fees structure, please contact us at: business@newcreationit.com

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Ashish Raichur
open source software solutions / www.newcreationit.com
outsource to india / www.outsourceitindia.com

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