Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Amazing Charts Integration

Rexpert now works with the Amazing Charts EMR/EHR system! If your practice is interested in Meaningful Use incentives, wants to ePrescribe, or is currently transitioning from a paper patient record to an electronic patient record, we have excellent news: We have recently integrated with the Amazing Charts EMR/EHR system.

Because the Rexpert™ system is a proven solution for financial management, this combined system will protect your reimbursement/cash flow as your practice moves from paper to electronic patient records.


There are a number of companies and systems that specialize in EMR/EHR and a wide variety of clinical reporting needs. Therefore we continue to follow a strategy which allows your practice to select the best EMR fit while continuing to use our industry-leading Rexpert™ Practice Management System. We believe this approach minimizes the risk for your practice during the transition to an EMR.  However, after reviewing many solutions, we are highlighting Amazing Charts, despite some overlap between its functionality and ours.


Why?
  • Price - Amazing Charts is affordable with a low entry price and a chance to try the product for 90 days on a trial basis
  • Performance - Amazing Charts is highly rated in a number of client surveys
  • Meaningful Use - the package includes a Meaningful Use wizard to help you implement the sometimes-complex requirements   
  • E-prescribing - part of the standard product and SureScript certified.  
  • Specialty Support - including many cool features such as direct links between Amazing Charts and EKG equipment, freehand drawing for dermatologists, integration with state immunization registries for pediatricians, and much more.
  • Communication - you continue to enter patients' insurance and demographic information in Rexpert™ which sends it to Amazing Charts and, optionally, receive rudimentary charges from Amazing Charts into Rexpert. 

Some Features of Amazing Charts

  • Messaging Intra-office messaging is a critical component of an EHR and is what sets Amazing Charts apart from other programs that don’t have this built-in ability. All the stuff that used to be done with sticky notes and yelling down the hallway (e.g., prescription refills, getting somebody a chart, even your request for lunch) are all now quickly and easily entered into Amazing Charts and sent from staff member to staff member. No more getting up to find somebody or pulling a chart to see the last time a medication got refilled – just use Amazing Charts’ built-in intra-office messaging system. But for those who just can't give up their sticky notes - we even have these built these into Amazing Charts so that you'll feel right at home.
  • ePrescribing Amazing Charts contains a robust and built-in ePrescribing module, which includes drug-drug and drug-allergy interactions and the ability to both print and transmit prescriptions electronically. Subscribers to the maintenance plan get the full ePrescribing module for no additional charge.
  • Reporting Being able to easily query your database and find all patients meeting certain criteria is one of the main benefits of using an Electronic Health Record - not to mention a core requirement for the government's Meaningful Use (MU) push. Our user-friendly reporting tool provides common preset queries as well as the ability to build your own complex queries in an easy step by step process.
  • Working Off-Site Using LogMeIn and other remote desktop applications, you can easily connect to your Amazing Charts database over the Internet and document as if you were in your office. If you are away from a computer, or don't have an Internet connection, you can use the iPhone App, or the Amazing Synch Utility included with Amazing Charts.

How to get Started 
If you're interested in more information on how to get started, contact Client Services, use the Feedback button on the main Rexpert screen, or e-mail us at guidev@practice-alt.com.

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Message Boxes

Okay, how about a small break from e-mailing?

A good question was recently raised about how to select an answer from a warning box without using the mouse. There are 3 options that you can choose from to select the answer that you desire with the touch of your fingertips rather than using that clunky-old hunk of plastic!

As an example, let's say you are entering a new patient into Account Registration. You enter the new account number "testingtest" into the Account Number box, and then Rexpert™ throws a fit and pops up a warning box that reads:


"The account number was not found."
"Do you want to create a new account with the number "testingtest"?"

The two options Rexpert™ gives are: "Yes" and "No".



You now have 3 separate choices to select the answer you want.

The first option is to select the default answer. If you look closely at the buttons, you will see that they are labeled as "Yes" and "No", and that the "No" box is outlined in black-bold with an inner perforated edge. This indicates that "No" is the default answer, and if you just press "Enter" or "Return", the box will leave with "No" as the answer. 



The second option also keeps your hands on the keyboard. Notice again the answers, "Yes" and "No". This time, pay attention to the underlined letter in each word; the letters underlined indicate that you can just press "Y" for yes and "N" for no, and by doing so, you select that box as your answer.

The third option is to use the "Tab" key on your keyboard to scroll through the answer selections. Once the answer that you want is outlined in black-bold with the inner perforated edge, then simply press "Enter" or "Return" to select that box as your choice.