MEDITECH
Physician Care
Manager
product brief
MEDITECH's Physician Care Manager enables physicians to direct care for a wide range of patient populations through a single, easy-to-use desktop portal. Physicians can manage care for patients who are being attended to in hospitals, emergency departments, physician offices, and clinics, as well as those being cared for through home health care agencies, with greater efficiency than ever before.
The Physician Care Manager provides physicians direct access to the information and functions they use daily to direct their patients' care.
Highlights:
MEDITECH's
Physician Care Manager organizes a wide scope of software functionality and patient
information into a cohesive package. The application includes:
• A streamlined desktop for managing patient populations
• Physicians' lists of active patients
• Patient care records, including outpatient visit
information
• Electronic Signature features
• CPOE functionality including patient- and drug-specific
decision support
• Ambulatory ordering of prescriptions and care orders for
departing emergency room patients
• Care documentation tools
• Secure, Internet-based access to information.
Standard
Features
Physician
Desktop
The Physician Care Manager product displays the information physicians need on an
electronic dashboard, so physicians have one destination from which they access
information within the MEDITECH Health Care Information System. Through this desktop,
physicians can manage their workloads, review patients' results, manage orders, document
care, and electronically sign documents.
Patient-Specific
Care Records
The Physician Care Manager includes both quick clinical review panels of information
collected during a patient's current visit, as well as comprehensive electronic records
for physicians' patients. Records provide information from visits conducted anywhere
within the organization's continuum of care. This could include hospitals, emergency
departments, physicians' offices, home health agencies, long-term care and behavioral
health facilities, and satellite laboratories. Patients' electronic records are updated
automatically when new results and visit information are entered.
Physicians have direct
access to patient-specific:
• Problem Lists
• Progress Notes
• Current care results, diagnostic results, medications, documentation, orders, and
reports
• Previous visit information with abstracts and demographic information
• Medical histories, including allergies, occupations, and social histories
• Care information from outpatient services
• Demographics, insurance, diagnostic, and procedural code assignments
• Graphs to display trends and abnormalities.
Computerized
Physician Order Entry (CPOE)
Physicians enter and manage orders from the hospital, home, or while traveling.
Capabilities from throughout the MEDITECH HCIS are integrated to ensure a coordinated and
safe ordering process. Pharmacists, nurses, laboratory and radiology technicians, and the
rest of the care team are all tied into the physician-initiated process. What's more,
physicians can sign any verbal orders and view results from wherever they may be.
The order management process is integrated with the Pharmacy to instantly compare formulary data against a patient's record during the clinical decision making process. Patient and drug information is presented to the physician at the time of ordering, thereby assisting with safety and efficiency. Decision support rules and physician preferences are embedded in the ordering process. Orders automatically appear on nurses' patient status boards.
The Physician Care Manager's CPOE
component includes:
• Common order sets by specialty, patient event, diagnosis, location
• Order sets based on physician preferences
• Drug information from hospital formulary services
• Dose checking, dose calculator, conflict checking
• Duplicate order checks
• Patient's allergies, adverse reactions, medication checks
• Relevant clinical information such as vitals and test results
• Historical patient information
• Support for organization's standards of care and safety initiatives
• Direct link to MAR to update the patient's record.
Ordering
Ambulatory Prescriptions and other Services
Physician Care Manager provides physicians with the ability to generate discharge orders
for Emergency Department patients as well as those admitted to the hospital as inpatients.
Physicians can manage prescriptions, follow-ups and diagnostics, durable medical
equipment, and other orders for Emergency Department patients in the same manner by which
they manage inpatient orders. Physicians furthermore are able to automatically convert
inpatient orders to ambulatory orders, and likewise convert ambulatory orders to inpatient
orders.
Physician
Documentation
The Physician Care Manager includes a comprehensive set of features for documenting the
care patients receive in hospitals and emergency departments. These documentation features
complement the similar functions our Medical and Practice Management suite provides for
documenting care provided during office visits. Physicians are able to generate notes
either by storing dictations, entering comments via voice recognition software, or by
typing.
The documentation component enables physicians to quickly highlight key results in patients' records and include these results in care notes. Physicians furthermore are able to pre-define templates of results to be included in patients' progress notes.
Internet
Access
With MEDITECH's support of three-tier solutions such as Windows Terminal Services and
Citrix, physicians have fast, secure access to Physician Care Manager from office and
home, as well as from the hospital.
For those occasions when physicians are traveling, MEDITECH provides secure, browser-based access to their patients' records from public Internet access.
Order
Entry (non-Physician staff)
Please note that in addition to a streamlined CPOE function tailored for physicians
(described above), the Physician Care Manager product may be licensed with software to
provide a comprehensive order management process for nurses and ward clerks as well.
Embedded rules-based logic routines assist the process and flag dangerous and unusual
values. Clerks can enter verbal or phone orders from physicians, and later get the order
signed using the Electronic Signature capability.
Optional
Access to Office Patients
MEDITECH's Physician Care Manager product is designed to work seamlessly with the Medical
and Practice Management suite available for physicians' offices. For example, physicians
are able to access patient charts and manage care for office and clinic patients directly
through the Physician Desktop when the Physician Care Manager product is combined with the
Medical and Practice Management product.
For more information about us, contact a MEDITECH Marketing Representative
MEDITECH
Medical Information Technology, Inc.
MEDITECH Circle
Westwood, MA 02090
781-821-3000
www.meditech.com