EMR Software for Behavioral and Mental Health

June 26, 2009 - PRLog -- 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.

OpenVista can be customized for speciality clinics and medical centers.

EMRs for psychologists, psychiatrists and behavioral health providers have unique features and capabilities specifically for mental health clinics. Charting templates for evaluation and progress notes, automated coding, and medication and prescription management tools, e-prescribing, laboratory request interface to track patient lab results, etc. are important features of EMRs for mental health care.

NewCreationIT will work with Psychiatry and Behavioral Health 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.

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
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OpenVista(R) is a registered trademark of Medsphere Systems Corporation. OpenVista is Medsphere's robust open-source software system that is based on the United States Department of Veterans Affairs's VistA program. NewCreationIT deploys, customizes, and supports the open-source OpenVista software for medical practices and hospitals globally. NewCreationIT is not affiliated with or approved by Medsphere Systems Corporation.

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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.