Meaningful Use Ready: The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently finalized the Meaningful Use requirements for EHR software vendors, and the practices and hospitals who will use them. We want to reassure you that Pulse has evaluated these requirements and, as we have promised for months, verified that Pulse EHR meets or exceeds every rule.
Pulse EHR is a complete suite of applications which allows physicians to document the patient encounter in an efficient and intuitive manner. One key to its ease of adoption is that Pulse EHR allows multiple modes of documentation so physicians can choose the mode which is most familiar and efficient for them. Also key to practice adoption is Pulse’s module-based system, the most flexible product of its kind in the industry, allowing practices to purchase and implement modules of the EHR suite, on a pathway towards “meaningful use.” Importantly, Pulse EHR is ‘future proof,’ as it already meets or exceeds all currently proposed requirements for 2011 ARRA stimulus payments.
Pulse software is Microsoft Windows-based and developed using the latest industry standards (HL7Health Link 7 – A protocol for interoperability., LOINCLogical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes – A data-set of universal codes for exchanging and storing clinical results, vital signs, and more.®, NCPDPNational Council for Prescription Drug Programs – A communication standard for ePrescribing, ANSIAmerican National Standard Institute – A standard for formatting claims, ERN, and other EDI transactions., CCDContinuity of Care Document – Part of the HL7 protocol, CCD is an XML document describing the architecture of a medical document and in-turn, patient records.) for optimum interoperability. Plus, all Pulse software is backed by the experienced implementation and support teams and tools that keep 95% of Pulse customers loyal year after year.
Pulse EHR Highlights
- A customized desktop of clinical user activities and tasks
- Daily schedule with patient location and status icons
- Daily tasks organized by type, priority and date
- Each task provides hyperlinks for direct access to patient chart and access to specific module for task completion
- Additional plug-in components include order results, Web sites, reference libraries, document management, items for sign-off, items to review, and interoffice communications
- Tracks every stage of a patient’s care with time stamps, status, ready-for and location data
- Stores vital statistical information for reporting and process re-engineering
- Alerts to deliver timely and efficient care, improving patient satisfaction
- Allows for interoffice communication and duties to pre-assigned recipients per User and/or Group preferences
- Easy access to supporting modules to simplify the completion of tasks
- Follow-up appointments
- Rx renewal
- Orders
- Out referrals
- Document review
- Provides an internal audit trail to track whether a task has been completed or not
- Easily customizable and familiar ‘patient chart’view of the patient electronic health record
- Instantly extracts information from the various modules of the Patient Relationship Management system based on physician preference
- High interoperability through use of Continuity of Care Document (CCD)
- E-Chart data includes but is not limited to:
- Customized Patient Summary
- Growth Charts
- Problem Lists
- Medical History
- Hospitalization History
- Family and Social History
- Lab Results
- Medication List
- Allergies
- Immunization Records
- Clinical Notes
- Radiology Reports
- Images
- Third Party Documents
- Place and track orders for any ancillary service either within or outside your operations
- Orders are tracked from submission through completion and results receipt
- Order screen offers easy single-click selection
- Communications can be generated electronically or on paper
- Create Order results tasks to pre-assigned recipients
- Batch sign Order results
- Orders and results are transmitted in HL7 format to and from third party systems, allowing almost instantaneous communication both internally and externally
- Electronically create, renew/refill and track prescriptions
- Electronic prescriptions are easily written and routed to the patient’s preferred pharmacy
- The PulseRX ePrescribing module features:
- Physician and facility preferences
- Historical patient drug utilization
- Extensive drug database, including drug-drug interations; drug-allergy interations; drug-to-disease
- Electronic transfer of prescriptions directly to the pharmacy
- Information leaflets in English and Spanish
- Automatic updates to patients; medication records
- eCharge provides a track-able electronic charge ticket with diagnosis and billable procedures which are automatically exported to Charge Entry when complete
- eCharge supplies patient care plans auto-generating tasks to pre-assigned recipients for completion
- Orders
- Rx
- Out referrals
- Follow up visits
- CPT and ICD codes are electronically sent to the billing system for electronic code scrubbing and claim submission
- Allows users to create and utilize familiar forms and images for annotation
- Electronic format for paper and pencil
- Managed and routed as routine patient documents
- Simple method to paperless documentation
- Allows users to create, manage and route encounter template documents
- Intuitive and easily accessible method to gather and assemble various pieces of patient information
- Template options allow for dictation, voice recognition and procedure documentation
- E&M Calculatior processes coded data and generates E&M code with auditable support
- Dialog specifics enable adjustments such as exam type, face-to-face time spent with patient and patient status
- Column details displays a presentation of the details underlying the generated code
- CPT and ICD codes are electronically sent to the billing system for electronic code scrubbing and claim submission
- The Clinical Knowledge Engine is a combination of 300,000 medical concepts with methods for presenting and documenting relevant symptoms, history, physical findings, tests, diagnoses and therapy for virtually any patient presentation
- The engine incorporates built-in support for clinical decision making
- The construction of clinical content is structured for quick, familiar and adaptable data entry modes
- Citing and editing of previous encounter
- Forms provide a platform for customized data access and a form-centric means of clinical data entry
- Utilizing properties and components of the Forms designer provides enhanced functionality and access to additional clinical data
- Specialty-based forms template library
- Fully integrated with the document management system
- Works with outsourced transcription services, in-office transcriptions, or healthcare provider dictated notes utilizing the latest in voice recognition technology
- Uses macros, auto-text, templates and data merge elements to ensure consistency and accuracy in clinical documentation (requires Microsoft Word)
- Incorporates digital and hard-copy documents into a folder and builds the electronic patient chart
- Includes batch viewing capabilities, electronic storage for third party documents, electronic importing of digital images and files, and electronic importing of faxed documents through the PulseFax
- Enables physicians to print documents or route them electronically to people such as referring providers, insurance plans, claim adjusters, employers, or government entities
- State of the art encryption protects practice and patient data from unauthorized viewers
- Distributes faxes in a digital format, so they can be attached to patients’ electronic charts-eliminating wasted time and resources
- Inbound
- Receives inbound faxes and stores in a centralized directory
- Faxes are stored redundantly to ensure that received faxes are always available and recoverable
- Recipients can manage, view, annotate and route faxes for review
- Outbound
- Can be utilized from any module with print option to convert source documents to a faxable file format and adding cover pages
- Recipients for faxing are easily selected from Patient Contacts or Users Outlook Contact List
- Provides Fax Status Que allowing users to monitor the status of outbound fax jobs
- Administrative settings to view all users
- Speech-enable EHR components for faster, more efficient and advantageous clinical documentation
- Dictate faster and more accurately
- Dictate anywhere in the EHR
Learn more or schedule a live product demo by contacting a Pulse Representative.
