AMS Electronic Medical Records
• Customizable macros and templates
• Scan and import images, documents and more
• Vaccine / immunization schedule
• Medication history and tracking
• Test ordering and results tracking
• Lab interfaces available to Quest, LabCorp and others
• Reminders for patient recalls
• Follow-up to lab orders, staff tasks and more
• Referral letters
• Hyperlinks for disease mgmt and patient education
• Growth charts
• Flow Sheets
• Prescription writing and history
• Customizable Reporting
Electronic Prescribing Module (eRx)
• Search by drug or drug class and formulary status
• Drug interaction checking
• Unlimited medication lookups
• Dosage Calculator
• Send scripts electronically to local and mail order pharmacies
Improved Coding
Where down-coding and poor charge capture can both be improved through the EMR’s E&M Coding assistant. A study by Medical Economics magazine estimated that a physician who is regularly down-coding may be losing as much as $40,000 to $50,000 annually. A study done by Partners Healthcare System found an increase of 1.5%-5% in overall billing simply through improved charge capture. We will use a conservative improvement rate to factor in a reduction in down-coding, resulting in approx. $24,000 per year.
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Offices using a transcription service @ the industry standard of $300-$1000 per month, we will use a conservative figure of $600 per month resulting in an annual savings of $7200.00
Chart Management
Chart Management costs can be reduced through lower chart creation costs, lower chart storage costs and fewer chart pulls. The cost to create a new chart is estimated at $7/chart and the cost to pull a chart is $5 according to industry standards. For this example we will assume that there are 50 chart pulls per day including the 60% average for non-visiting patients. We will use a conservative estimate for the cost of each chart pull @ $3 and assume that we will only reduce our chart pulls by 40% the first year and not be paperless for 2 years.
Prescription Refills
According to a study done by Journal of Healthcare Information Management, the time spent doing an Rx refill can be reduced from 15 minutes to 3 minutes. At 20 refills per day, that would be savings of 240 minutes.
