Key Benefits for ObGynPocketPro v3.5
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Streamline Information Management
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Increase Your Income
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Higher Quality Medical Care
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Description of New Features
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Decrease Your Documenting Time and Effort
- Are you swollen in a sea of too much paperwork? Now you can document an entire delivery - even a c-section - faster than you can write it. Same for a surgery, with fast, efficient, and familiar form layouts.
- Sure, you can scribble on a piece of paper fast, but is your Note adequate? Does it justify your coding? Is it legible? The fact is, the only way to match the quality notes from ObGynPocketPro and to meet recent documentation guidelines would be to dictate - and you know that is far more time consuming when you include transcription, correction, signing, and turn-around time.
- Eliminate the need to go back to re-sign or review documents in medical records. Your notes will be perfectly legible, signed, dated, and timed. No need to go back later to medical records and sign anything - its already done - perfectly, accurately, and every time.
- You can use the Quick Dictations feature to perform hospital consults (in the next release, we will do this automatically for you).
- Having reference information at the Point of Care, where and when you need it, saves you time while improving the quality of your care.
Reduce Wasteful , Repetitive Paperwork
- Write information in the Prenatal Care form, it carries to the Delivery Note, and finally to the Post Partum Note.
- With Practical Intelligence, notes auto-fill appropriate or common entries as you type. For example, if your patient's pap smear was initially abnormal, that will carry through to your Post Partum visit, reminding you to perform colposcopy.
- My Text, and My Buttons let you customize and integrate long phrases with easy to enter shortcuts, saving you a lot of typing effort.
- My OpNotes allows you to create your own custom surgery note - write it once, and you're done - no need to rewrite or re-dictate the same thing over and over again.
- With Automatic Operative Note dictations, you no longer write the brief operative note and repeat the same information in the detailed dictated operative note - it is all done for you.
- Integrated billing and coding eliminates an additional layer of repetition.
Alleviate Signing, Dating, & Timing Headaches
- How many visits to medical records have you made because your notes weren't signed, dated, and time? I used to waste hours per week.
- Hospital guidelines, JCAHO accreditation all depend on this, but who wants to worry about that - you want to take care of patients, not paperwork.
- Let ObGynPocketPro ensure all your notes are signed correctly, so you don't even have to pay attention to it.
Manage Your On Call Schedule, and Share Via the Internet
- Easily manage you call schedule, and share with your group, staff, or patients.
- Print out the schedule, or provide your staff or patients with an internet access code to allow tem to vie the schedule.
- Staff will see "on call" as well as "out/on vacation". Patients only see who's on call - perfect for Obstetrical patients near delivery who want to see who is on call.
Anywhere, Anytime Secure Medical Record Access
- You have your PocketPC with you everywhere, now you have your patient's records with you too!
- Integrated patient photo provides immediate recognition when taking calls.
- Emailing full patient record capabilities allows you to update a patient's record, then send it to the patient's primary physician when you are taking call.
- Secure password that only affects patient information, not the other medical tools.
- Adjust the frequency of password request - from all the time for maximum security, to a reasonable interval of time for minimal intrusion when you know you'll be working in the office all day.
- For On Call coverage, you can securely pass on your
patient's info to your partners with minimal effort. Email a
patient's record, Beam it with infrared, or pass the whole database
using memory cards.
Obviate the need for Most Dictations
- Streamline: With Automatic Dictations, your routine surgery's detailed operative notes are created on pre-made, customizable templates - you don't need to dictate a thing! The patient's particular information for the case is seamlessly integrated to create an accurate, concise dictation.
- Customize: Every physician has their own operative technique and style - you can easily customize the notes to fit your technique.
- Save: Save money on transcription costs, and save your hospital money as well. The average Physician spends $300 - $1000/month on transcription costs, now you can cut that down by 70% to 80% or more!
Mobilize Your Few Remaining Dictations
- What about the unusually difficult surgeries requiring a detailed and unique dictation? The dictation tools you need are always at hand in ObGynPocketPro. After you've completed the dictation, just email it directly to your transcriptionist for instant dictation - it works regardless of the transcription service you have.
- Send dictations for backup to our Desktop Companion.
Accelerate Physician to Physician Communication
- Forget faxing, you can electronically send your notes and even your entire patient's record via email to any other physician running ObGynPocketPro.
- You can exchange information via infrared or Bluetooth ("Beaming"), memory cards, and email using Activesync or WiFi.
- Now you can send your records to a physician electronically, and they simply download our free Desktop Companion to be able to view the document. They can copy and paste it into their EMR - forget scanning!
Use ObGynPocketPro with your existing EMR, or as your EMR
- All documents created can be exported and integrated into any existing Electronic Medical Record (EMR) or Electronic Health Record (EHR).
- Regardless of which EMR you have, most of your charge capture losses are when you are out of the office - where's your EMR then? ObGynPocketPro's automatic billing and coding takes care of that for you.
- Yes, we are working on direct integration of ObGynPocketPro's medical records with your EMR. The best way to make this happen is to request your company to work with ObTech - the more requests, the better. Currently the desktop companion can import HL7 standard files into your PDA for demographic information only - the remaining medical information is coming.
- List of partners: Here is a list of EMR companies we have a
direct relationship with and are working on creating seamless
compatibility with.
- CompuMed Systems, AdvantaChart
- New Age Systems
- Using ObGynPocketPro as your EMR
- You can track all your patients using ObGynPocketPro, but we recommend paper back up systems, especially for the office. ObGynPocketPro allows you to take your information everywhere, and has built in automatic backups. However, we recommend you have office back up either on paper or using a full enterprise level EMR.
- Our goal is to mobilize your records out of the office, to work with your office EMR or your office paper charts. PDA software alone is not appropriate as a complete and standalone medical record system.
Modernize Medical Information Exchange
- You can exchange information by:
- Email, using your PocketPC Phone Edition (e.g., the Samsung i730)
- Wireless network (WiFi)
- Direct Desktop PC connection (Activesync)
- Infrared ("Beaming")
- Bluetooth ("Beaming" up to 30ft away, through walls)
- Memory cards.
- You can export files and read them using the Desktop Companion. The contents can be cut and pasted into any other software, including any EMR.
- Still have paper charts in the office or at your hospital? No problem, you can wirelessly print via WiFi, Bluetooth, or Infrared. Learn more about PocketPC printing here.
- Keeping up to date with new medical information is crucial - ObGynPocketPro has many features to do this for you - look for much more to come in this area in future upgrades.
Anesthetize Your Painful Billing and Coding Work
- We all HATE wasting our valuable time and medical skills being cashiers and coders. It's a necessary "pain", and ObGynPocketPro puts that pain to sleep!
- Your Billing and Coding is AUTOMATICALLY done for you for routine deliveries and surgeries
- You still have the final review and say.
- Say goodbye to 3x5 cards, wasted time, huge delays in billing, and missed or delayed reimbursement. You work hard to save lives and provide excellent medical care, you shouldn't have to worry about getting the pay you deserve.
Improve Your Reimbursement
- Accurate and timely billing will save you thousands per year.
- The fact is, the average physician loses $60,000 per year in lost, incomplete, or under coded billing - most of which are out of the office charges (ObGynPocketPro's Focus!).
- Another study found that $25 Billion/yr is lost "due to improper documentation and failing to bill for services outside the office setting"1
- ObGynPocketPro handles much of this process with its Automatic Billing for Deliveries and for Surgery notes. You just approve, and email the bill.
- In case you were wondering, we are working on charge capture in the office - you can use the Quick Billing and Coding in the office, or for consults, but eventually we will do that automatically for you as well. For now, you must look up the codes to create the bill, but you use our organized Billing "Trees" that present you pertinent codes - we call this Quick Billing.
- Plus, for the unusual cases, we have the entire ICD9 and CPT® coding database for you to search!
- Send Quick Bills electronically just like Automatic Bills.
References:
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Handhelds in Medicine, a Practical Guide for Clinicians, Strayer, MD, 2005, pg178.
Turn a Billing Month into a Minute
Let's take an example of how we save for a Cesarean Section
- The Old Way can easily take a Month:
- You handwrite your brief op note
- You dictate the surgery within 24hours - repeating what you wrote by hand
- You make a 3"x5" card for the bill, using a sticker for the name, hand writing cesarean and your indication/Diagnosis
- Your 3"x5" card eventually gets to your billing department, wrinkled and warped or soaked from the washing machine
- Perhaps once a week you go to medical records, if you are diligent, and review and sign your dictation
- Once the bill codes are checked and the dictation is signed by you, then your office can send the Bill - this can easily take up to a month, and usually takes at least a few weeks on the average
- The New Way with ObGynPocketPro - done in a minute!
- You create your note in seconds using ObGynPocketPro's delivery form
- You wirelessly print out the Brief Op Note
- You wirelessly Email (or Print) your fully completed dictation - already signed
- No need to go to medical records, it was done in a minute!
- You quickly review the Automatically Generated Bill, then email it to your billing staff
- They can send the bill immediately because the entire record is already done, before your patient hit the recovery room!
That's how we save you a lot of money by taking a process that can easily take a month and turn it into a minute!
Reduce Your Transcription Costs
- Save money on transcription costs, and save your hospital money as well. The average Physician spends $300 - $1000/month on transcription costs, now you can cut that down by 70% to 80% or more!
- Instead of dictating, then going back to medical records to review and sign your dictations, you can see more patients.
Reduce Your Malpractice Insurance
- Malpractice discount - The safety features ObTech provides meet the criteria for many malpractice insurance carriers to give you a malpractice insurance discount.
- Features include record access, no record alteration beyond 24hrs, automatic database backup, safety alerts, coverage for both obstetrics and gynecology, record security, audit trail. Some prescription handling is present (ePrescribing coming in future release).
- This reduction can amount from 2% to 10% - This is an evolving opportunity, so please refer to your malpractice carrier.
- There are upcoming Medicare programs and Quality measures that will include the use of EMRs - ObGynPocketPro will meet those requirements.
"ObGynPocketPro Pays for Itself in One Month!"
- The savings in billing, reimbursement, time, dictation costs, and efficiency easily outweigh the cost of the product in my practice with just one month of use - Robert Lalouche, MD
- Integrated billing and coding will ensure complete and correct charge capture.
- How many circumcisions have you done that have gone without being billed? Automatic handling of circumcisions will save you much lost revenue.
- Malpractice discount - this saving can amount to 5 figures of savings per year.
- Bypassing the dictate, transcribe, and sign process means your bills go out faster, saving you the losses on the time "float".
- More complete notes allow appropriate coding with higher reimbursement.
- Saving time improves the bottom line and allows you to see more patients.
Reduce Medical Errors
- ObGynPocketPro monitors your patient's prenatal care, warning you of due or overdue items.
- Yellow alerts warn of items due soon, or needing attention soon.
- Red alerts warn you of labs or tests overdue, or needing immediate attention.
- Is it winter? Has your patient completed the first trimester? If so, ObGynPocketPro will remind you to offer her the flu shot. (Actually, now the flu shot is recommended for any trimester)
- The list of routine prenatal care interventions within ObGynPocketPro is constantly growing. Software never forgets. Software never gets tired on call. Software is never in a rush. This is what we mean by practical Intelligence - ObGynPocketPro handles the simple information, freeing you to focus on the real medical decisions.
Spend Time with Patients, not Paperwork
- The unfortunate trend in medicine has been to emphasize time and effort on creating paperwork, instead of on caring for patients.
- ObGynPocketPro reverses this trend - we make every effort to do the simple things automatically for you, freeing you to focus on the real medical decisions.
- Free you to spend time with your patient, not the paperwork, not billing, not dictations, not medical records, and not hunting for inaccessible records or information.
Enhance Patient Satisfaction and Safety
- I must admit I never expected my patients to love the teaching images so much - but they do! Having descriptive pictures at your finger tips in an unobtrusive manner impresses patients, and provides better understanding.
- You can also use any image of your choosing.
- Patients respect your thoroughness, and recognize you have information at your fingertips. They know you are giving them better care.
- Patients appreciate the unobtrusive interface of the handheld, rather than the disruptive desktop computer.
Modernize Physician Communication
- Rapid, easy information exchange ensures you make informed decisions when taking care of your patients, or when consultants take care of your patients.
- When you are on call, if you have patient records with you, you can provide much better decisions for your patients, even in the middle of the night from home.
Improve Legibility
- No handwriting can match fast, wireless printed or emailed output.
- Can you afford the risk of having illegible notes?
- Is your legibility getting scored at your hospital? It is at mine, and its coming for you too!
- Legible notes provide accurate communication, reducing errors and enhancing the quality of medicine.
- We write poorly because we don't have time to right neatly - but now you can, with ObGynPocketPro!
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