MEDITECH
Physician Care Manager
product brief
MEDITECH's Physician Care Manager enables physicians to direct care for a wide range of patient populations through a single, easy-to-use desktop portal. Physicians can manage care for patients who are being attended to in hospitals, emergency departments, physician offices, and clinics, with greater efficiency than ever before.
The Physician Care Manager provides physicians direct access to the information and functions they use daily to direct their patients' care.
Highlights:
MEDITECH's
Physician Care Manager organizes a wide scope of software
functionality and patient information into a cohesive package.
The application includes:
• A streamlined desktop for managing
patient populations
• Physicians' lists of active
patients
• Patient care records, including
outpatient visit information
• Electronic Signature features
• CPOE functionality including
patient and drug-specific decision support
• Integration with Zynx Health, Inc.
for accessing evidence-based reference information and importing
order sets
• Management of prescriptions and
care orders
• Care documentation tools
• Secure, Internet-based access to
information
• Physician rounding through a Web-based
pocket PC or smart phone device.
Standard
Features
Physician
Desktop
The Physician Care Manager
product displays the information physicians need on an electronic
dashboard, so physicians have one destination from which they
access information within the MEDITECH Health Care Information
System. Through this desktop, physicians can manage their
workloads, review patients' results, manage orders, document care,
and electronically sign documents.
Patient-Specific
Care Records
The Physician Care Manager
includes both quick clinical review panels of information
collected during a patient's current visit, as well as
comprehensive electronic records for physicians' patients.
Records provide information from visits conducted anywhere within
the organization's continuum of care. This could include
hospitals, emergency departments, physicians' offices, home
health agencies, long-term care and behavioral health facilities,
and satellite laboratories. Patients' electronic records are
updated automatically when new results and visit information are
entered.
Physicians have
direct access to patient-specific:
• Problem Lists
• Progress Notes
• Current care results, diagnostic results, medications,
documentation, orders, and reports
• Previous visit information with abstracts and demographic
information
• Medical histories, including allergies, occupations, and
social histories
• Care information from outpatient services
• Demographics, insurance, diagnostic, and procedural code
assignments
• Graphs to display trends and abnormalities.
Computerized
Physician Order Entry (CPOE)
Physicians enter and manage
orders from the hospital, home, or while traveling. Capabilities
from throughout the MEDITECH HCIS are integrated to ensure a
coordinated and safe ordering process. Pharmacists, nurses,
laboratory and radiology technicians, and the rest of the care
team are all tied into the physician-initiated process. What's
more, physicians can sign any verbal orders and view results from
wherever they may be.
The order management process is integrated with the Pharmacy to instantly compare formulary data against a patient's record during the clinical decision making process. Patient and drug information is presented to the physician at the time of ordering, thereby assisting with safety and efficiency. Decision support rules and physician preferences are embedded in the ordering process. Orders automatically appear on nurses' patient status boards.
The Physician Care Manager's
CPOE component includes:
• Order sets based on physician preferences
• Integration with Zynx Health Inc. for importing evidence-based
order sets
• Drug information from hospital formulary services
• Dose checking, dose calculator, conflict checking
• Duplicate order checks
• Patient's allergies, adverse reactions, medication checks
• Relevant clinical information such as vitals and test
results
• Historical patient information
• Support for organization's standards of care and safety
initiatives
• Direct link to MAR to update the patient's record.
Ordering
Ambulatory Prescriptions and other Services
Physician Care Manager
provides physicians with the ability to manage prescriptions,
follow-ups and diagnostics, durable medical equipment, and other
orders for all patients being discharged. Physicians furthermore
are able to automatically convert inpatient orders to ambulatory
orders, and likewise convert ambulatory orders to inpatient
orders.
Physician
Documentation
Physician Care Manager
includes a comprehensive set of features for documenting the care
patients receive. Physicians can create their own templates to
streamline the documentation process using point and click
queries, annotated images, free text, and canned text. System-wide
integration also enables physicians to highlight key results in
patients' records and include these results in care notes.
Responses to queries will automatically generate detailed
documentation. Physicians even have the option to store
dictations or generate comments via voice recognition software
through Dragon NaturallySpeaking software, provided by Nuance.
Physician
Rounding
Physician Rounding
allows physicians to access and update their patient lists from a
Web-based pocket PC or smart phone device. From this device
physicians can access the latest clinical data on their patients,
including results, vital signs, intake and output, allergies,
active medications, and documents (reports and notes). Physicians
can also view encounter notes and document Evaluation and
Management (E&M) information while rounding on their patients.
Internet
Access
With MEDITECH's support of
three-tier solutions such as Windows Terminal Services and Citrix,
physicians have fast, secure access to Physician Care Manager
from office and home, as well as from the hospital.
Optional
Access to Office Patients
MEDITECH's Physician Care
Manager product is designed to work seamlessly with the Medical
and Practice Management suite available for physicians' offices.
For example, physicians are able to access patient charts and
manage care for office and clinic patients directly through the
Physician Desktop when the Physician Care Manager product is
combined with the Medical and Practice Management product.
For more information about us, contact a MEDITECH Marketing Representative.
MEDITECH
Medical Information Technology, Inc.
MEDITECH Circle
Westwood, MA 02090
781-821-3000
www.meditech.com