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SpringCharts®


Student Edition
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Electronic Health Records, 2/e

Byron R. Hamilton

ISBN: 0073374393
Copyright year: 2011

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ARRA

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, commonly known as the Stimulus Package, contains approximately $20 billion to promote the adoption of EHRs across the country. Up to $65,000 is being made available to physicians to invest in Health Information Technology, ensuring that every citizen has access to electronic medical records by 2014. This program and its impact upon the future allied health workforce is discussed in the second edition.

MIPPA

The Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008 and its impact on e-prescribing in EHR programs is discussed. The current increased reimbursement incentives to physicians from CMS is outlined.

E-prescribing

By 2015 e-prescribing will be mandated; patients will no longer receive a written prescription for medication. A national clearing house is now in place to receive electronic prescriptions from multiple physicians into a single database for each patient. Details of e-prescribing are discussed in this edition.

New Four-Color Design

The 2nd edition of Electronic Health Records has a new four-color design, making screen shots easier to read and the textbook more visually engaging to the student.

New Features to SpringCharts™

SpringCharts EHR has gone through five upgrades since the first edition of Electronic Health Records. Students will now be working on version 9.7. Some of the additional features of this new version are outlined in the second edition of EHR .

  • Digital Signature—allows user to save a signature into the program which will print on letters, prescriptions, and anywhere an electronic signature is available. Only the user may use his digital signature; it is not available to other users. A PC tablet must be in place to use this feature.

  • Added capability to convert one type of note to an OV note—useful when a patient enters the office to have a blood pressure check but then needs to see the doctor.

  • Vitals—right click on vitals fields to enter values without typing.

  • Added an Addendum feature for charted Messages—messages which have been charted may now have an addendum, similar to the OV addendum.

  • All text areas now have right-click support for adding date, time, and initials.

  • Added right/left-hand orientation for new OV screen—moves the tabs to the left side for left-handed users and to the right side for right-handed users.

  • Added font and margin choices to printing—a new print dialog was created to allow the user to define margins, font, and font size when printing documents.

  • Overhauled Face Sheet—the multicolored boxes on the left half of the patient chart have been replaced with a more aesthetically pleasing face sheet. This design change also allows for easy future expansion of the face sheet.

  • New Office Visit form—the office visit form has been redesigned to allow large screen users an always-visible face sheet and the tabs have been moved to the sides.

  • Added automatic Chart Evaluations and pending/completed Test lists to face sheet—chart evaluations are now automatically created on opening a chart and are shown on the new face sheet. Pending and completed tests are now shown on the face sheet instead of in the former popup window.

  • Added right-click support to face sheet—right click each face sheet item to view or edit that item.

  • Added face sheet to all types of chart notes—the new face sheet was added to Nurse notes, Encounter notes, Rx Refill notes, TC notes and Vitals Only notes.

  • Overhauled Nurse note, TC note, Rx Only note, Encounter note, Vitals note—these screens have been redesigned to follow the pattern of the new office visit form.

  • Overhauled Immunization window—can now be sorted by date or name.

  • Added a Lock icon to signed chart notes—a new icon identifies which items in a chart have been signed.

  • Added Drug search by generic name—prescription drug choices may now be searched by brand name or generic.

  • Changed ‘Referred by’ to ‘Other Providers’—more useful to specialist practices.

  • Added Tests to the OV templates—users may now enter tests to be included in each template.

  • Added popup text to the Notes sections of all tests (lab, imaging, med).

  • Added NPI to routing slip.


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