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Consider these twelve scenarios.
It’s 3AM. Your
patient is brought unconscious into the Emergency Room. You are in the Bahamas, and your
office is closed. The doctor covering for you hasn’t a clue about your patient’s
medical history. How can the ER doctor find out important details that he needs to know
NOW? Easy. Your patient is protected because he is carrying his PTCard
prepared with Practice Today. The ER doctor pops the PTCard into
the inner ring of his computer and closes the drawer. In seconds, there is a quick summary
of his medical history, prepared by you. Another Click, and his entire medical record is
revealed. His medications, his diagnoses, his allergies, his lab reports, his previous
hospital visits, his picture, even his health insurance information is disclosed. You are
a conscientious doctor. You must protect your patient, and protect your practice.
You perform an
important lab test in your office, only to have the insurance company deny it because you
used the wrong diagnosis code.
With Practice Today this will never happen again. When you bill a lab test, Practice Today
will check right then and there to see if the diagnosis is on the “approved”
list with that insurance carrier, and advise you.
You are entering
your patient’s medical notes into his electronic medical record (EMR). Why can’t
you just click on the procedure code right there inside the note, and bill the charge?
Why can't you just enter your dictation directly into the medical
note and let the computer transcribe it?
You can with Practice Today. Gee, you just saved $60,000 a year. One less billing clerk.
One less transcriptionist.
- The lab results for patient X need to be
reviewed. However, your nurse misplaced the reminder note.
This won't happen with Practice Today. Practice Today has an “Alert” system
whereby you set a date, and check the “lab review” checkbox. Presto, you are
reminded on the appointed date.
- Patient Education is important.
Documenting what you discussed with your patient is even more important (and legally
prudent). Practice Today tracks every piece of literature you dispense with a simple
click. This will surely come in handy some day.
- You are doing rounds in the hospital.
Your patient was just admitted. How do you get his medical records? Do you:
(A) Have your office fax it to you, and hope that it
is legible?
(B) Hop into your car and race across town for it?
(C) Wing it?
(D) Email your office. They email the patient’s
electronic medical record (encrypted, of course) back to you. Practice Today decrypts the
data on your laptop. You have everything you need at your fingertips. Isn’t it great
being on the cutting edge?
- Doctor X requests a copy of a patient's
medical record. ASAP. What do you do?
(A) File the request and hope to get to it later.
(B) Have your staff make another trip to the copy machine, and copy page after page,
again. Then pop the package in the mail and hope that it gets there.
(C) Using Practice Today, you make four clicks with your computer mouse. The patient's
complete medical record (scanned images, media images, and all) have been
pass worded,
encrypted, and emailed to Doctor X. Doctor X uses the free Practice Today Email Reader,
and presto. He has the complete medical record in SECONDS, not days.
- You perform a service and bill the
insurance carrier. Is it humanly possible to get paid in ten days or less? With Practice
Today, it’s typical if you bill electronically. Practice Today has several electronic
formats that allow you to bill directly using NSF, or through a clearing house.
- You see a 40-year-old female for a
routine office visit. Shouldn’t your computer advise you of the litany of age and sex
appropriate lab tests? Practice Today allows you to create your very own lab test and
procedural treatment plans with a few clicks of the mouse.
One of her lab tests reveals that she has a common STD. Shouldn’t your computer
suggest a medication treatment plan, and then print clear and legible prescriptions? Of
course it should. And, Practice Today does.
Going one step further, shouldn't your computer be able to automatically FAX those
prescriptions to her pharmacy with a few more clicks of the mouse? Of course, and Practice
Today can do that too.
- Your patient has been pre-authorized for
ten office visits. Twelve visits later, your billing clerk remembers to request another
pre-authorization. You might as well kiss those two office visits good-by. Not with
Practice Today. Practice Today maintains a visit counter and advises you with each visit.
Problem solved.
- A referral patient would like to
schedule an appointment. ASAP. The next available slot is two months away. What do you do?
(A) Work the request into your electronic appointment scheduler by creating a new slot on
a light day.
(B) Graciously explain that the doctor is completely booked. However, you have an
electronic waiting list. When there is a cancellation, they will be called.
Practice Today allows you to do both.
- You are in your office and you wonder:
"Who's sitting in the waiting room and how long have they been there?"
Office routing is an integral part of Practice Today (Pro). You can track patients as they
travel throughout your office. An electronic fee ticket (or "Super
Bill") travels
with each patient. It is easy to see who is located where. One click of the mouse will
tell you who the patient is waiting for, where they are scheduled to go next, what
services have been performed, when they arrived, and how long they have been waiting. This
is vital information for a practice that cares about patient satisfaction.
Just think. With Practice Today (Pro),
practicing medicine can bounce back towards what it should be.
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