Ambulatory Patient Record
The Ambulatory Patient Record (APR) is an on-line patient clinical record designed from a provider's perspective. From one logically-designed and easy-to-use screen, health care providers can quickly view a detailed profile of the patient, including his or her current medical problems and pertinent medical information. Full details of visits and their associated data are also accessible from the main screen. In addition, APR facilitates patient management for on-call and covering providers, allowing access to patients' ambulatory records across the continuum of care and enabling users to quickly familiarize themselves with patients not regularly under their care.
Components and Benefits
Clinicians are able to increase productivity and improve patient safety by utilizing the following:
- Flexible data entry routines
- Health Maintenance features and alerts
- Seamless integration with all LSS and MEDITECH modules
- Unique and flexible reporting options
- Unified clinical and billing functionality
Care Documentation
The documentation procecss offers extensive capabilities for automatically generating text as patient visits are processed. Data gathered during documentation is used to create provider-specific, formatted progress notes. In addition, providers may choose from a variety of different methods of documentation, including using standard and customizable templates, image annotation, dictation and transcription, handwriting recognition, voice recognition, or a combination of the methods listed. Documentation can also be performed by using a keyboard and mouse or a wireless pentab.
Effective Care Monitoring
The Ambulatory Patient Record allows health care providers to efficiently track:
- Medical problems
- Medications
- Allergies
- Surgeries
- Immunizations
- Lab results
- Referrals
- Progress notes
- Family, social and personal medical history
Unified Clinical and Billing Functionality
MPM takes a bold new approach to physician billing and practice management by unifying clinical and billing functions while streamlining the data collection process. The Ambulatory Patient Record automatically creates the patient bill during the collection of clinical data, eliminating the need for redundant entry of billing information by seamlessly passing billing data directly to the Physician Billing & Receivables (PBR) component.
