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eClinicalWorks And Primetime Medical Software Partner To Include Instant Medical History In Patient Portal
Interviewing Technology Streamlines the Flow of Information into eClinicalWorks EMR and Powers eVisits
DALLAS, TEPR Conference, Booth #516—May 21, 2007 -
eClinicalWorks, a market leader in unified EMR/PM systems, and Primetime
Medical Software, the leading provider of software to support the
computer-assisted interviewing of patients, today announced an agreement
to embed Instant Medical History (IMH) into the next version of
eClinicalWorks Patient Portal, creating a time-saving and revenue
enhancing feature. This will be available in Summer 2007.
By providing each patient a symptom-specific questionnaire, IMH helps
patients organize their history. Branching logic progresses quickly
through adjustable questionnaires before organizing the positives and
negatives for physicians. This information is then sent to the
eClinicalWorks EMR Patient History Bar. With this advance information,
physicians conduct efficient and informed patient interviews, reducing
the visit time while increasing the documentation quality. This provides
physicians with more accurate and consistently presented preliminary
information, resulting in a more focused and higher value in-person
interview in support of better—and faster—diagnoses. The same technology
enables the industry’s most comprehensive, highest-quality set of
eVisits.
“Primetime is honored to have been selected by eClinicalWorks for
our IMH capabilities,” said Matthew Ferrante, president of Primetime
Medical Software. “eClinicalWorks has been very successful in partnering
with medical associations and physician groups, and we look forward to
the opportunity.”
Key benefits of Instant Medical History:
* Reduces the office visit by 3-4 minutes;
* Reduces data entry time;
* Enhances patient communication and satisfaction;
* Increases the documentation quality significantly; and
* Enables online consultations between patients and
physicians.
“The ability to gather a complete medical history directly from the
patients improves the physician-patient relationship, increasing the
quality of patient care,” said Girish Kumar Navani, president of
eClinicalWorks. “Adding this feature to eClinicalWorks will enhance our
Patient Portal and create new revenue opportunities for physicians.”
Once available, eClinicalWorks will offer the IMH feature, without
charge during the pilot period, to all new and existing Patient Portal
customers.
About Primetime Medical Software
Since 1985, Primetime Medical Software, Inc. has been compiling medical
knowledge bases for patient interviewing in electronic health records.
Designed by physicians for use in the office and in eVisits, the
knowledge bases contain questionnaires for more than six thousand
distinct patient complaints. Physician productivity increases because as
much as sixty percent of the medical data necessary to complete the
visit note can be provided by patients and automatically documented in
medical terminology through the Internet, in exam rooms, or in waiting
areas before the encounter. For more information, visit the company on
the Web at http://www.medicalhistory.com.
About eClinicalWorks
eClinicalWorks is a privately-held leader in the unified electronic medical record (EMR) and practice management (PM) market. The company’s EMR/PM solutions are proven for every market segment: large practice groups, including Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative (MAeHC) and Electronic Health Records of Rhode Island (EHRRI), as well as medium, small and solo practices regardless of specialty. The company enjoys high profitability with a five-year compounded growth rate of more than 100 percent year-to-year. With an established customer base of more than 2,500 customers across all 50 states, eClinicalWorks has been awarded multiple top industry honors including Best in KLAS in
2006, 2005 and 2004, a top solution by TEPR for four consecutive years and the 5-STAR rated EMR solution by AC Group for three years. Based in Westborough, Mass., eClinicalWorks has additional offices in Alpharetta, Ga. More information on eClinicalWorks information on eClinicalWorks can be found at
www.eclinicalworks.com or by
calling (866) 888-MY-CW.
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eClinicalWorks is a trademark of eClinicalWorks, LLC. All other
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respective owners.
Heather Caouette
eClinicalWorks
112 Turnpike Road (Route 9)
Suite 200
Westborough, MA 01581
Phone: 508-836-2700 ext. 203
Fax: 508-836-4466
heather.c@eclinicalworks.com
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