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After the patient, the physician is probably the biggest
beneficiary of the Team Chart Concept.
The most visible change to the physician's routine is the patient
examination. The
business of seeing patients and documenting those examinations is
much faster with the Team Chart Concept. Information
is now organized and accessible to the physician while in the exam room. The
physician has access to all previous clinical, financial, and scheduling
information for the patient at hand. The physician can instantly
run clinical reports and graph those reports for both his/her benefit
and the patient's benefit.
The physician can document the patient examination in real-time
while with the patient. Using Templates the physician can 'audit' his/her
dictation to ensure that proper levels of service are billed. With
Templates, the physician can 'automatically' and 'invisibly' request
that other staff members make appointments, referrals, prescriptions,
referral letters, etc. on behalf of the patient. Nurses can
also run Templates to enter such things as the patient's past medical
history,
allergies, medications, etc. before the physician enters the exam
room.
With the Team Chart Concept,
there are no more lost paper charts. There are no more paper charts,
period. Though, perhaps awkward for some at first, being liberated
from the paper chart frees the physician to move at his/her speed
from patient encounter to patient encounter.
Another, more subtle, change is in the efficiency of the clinical
staff. Like
the physician, the staff is also freed from the paper chart. They
do not spend time tracking down lost charts, or hand entering information
into them. Efficient team work between the physician and his/her
staff is even more possible because everyone has access to all relevant
information stored with the Team Chart Concept from
every computer. Information can be entered for the same patient
on different computers at the same time. The sharp clinical
staff members can better anticipate the wishes and movements of the
physician
by watching information in the Team Chart Concept and
acting accordingly. Communication between the physician and
the staff is done automatically, as a by-product of the intuitive
documentation
processes in the Team Chart Concept.
And, of course, last but not least, the physician has instant access
to all financial information stored in the Team
Chart Concept. The physician can keep tabs on the financial
health of the practice. Click here for
information on the Financial Summary Report available in the Team
Chart Concept. The physician now has the information
needed to make decisions concerning the management of his/her practice. Giving
the billing staff the best possible tools to manage financial information
as efficiently as the clinical staff manage clinical information,
should ultimately impact the physician's bottom line in a positive
way.
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