Travel medicine

PatientSoft is a fully integrated solution for the travel medicine specialist that offers and comprehensive practice management and clinical solution. It not only contains a fully featured practice management system with features not available in many other systems (CRM, Integrated voice dictation and recording, integrated document scanning) but also includes a fully featured Picture Archiving and Communications System (PACS) and the capability to inexpensively tailor and integrate worksheets specifically for cosmetic and reconstructive surgeons that enable the capture and analysis of patient clinical information. As a browser based solution PatientSoft can run on Windows, MacOS or Linux.

Diary & Appointments

• Multiple practitioners; Multiple locations; Multiple modalities
• Highly configurable appointments & booking system (practitioners/ locations can be clustered in an unlimited number of ways and so create a series of specific appointment book views)
• Book into any Appointment view from anywhere via web browser
• Flexible intervals (user defined)
• Generate Appointment printout
• Pre appointment notes and alerts enter on screen at booking
• Change and edit Appointments with one click
• Double booking capability (user defined)
• Automated recurring/ follow up appointment capability
• Advanced appointment search on Appointment screen

Patient Demographics

• One record for each patient (EHR)
• Patient visit registration and maintenance
• Full clinical history lookup
• Full access to scanned documentation, reports, photographs, prescriptions and referrals from one screen with one click
• Seamless access to patient billing
• Standard search or bar coding enables quick access to patient record

Accounts & Billing

• Private, Bulk Bill, DVA, Gap Cover, Insurance, Corporate Accounts (including multiple Divisions & Head Office consolidation)
• Fully integrated Medicare Australia on-line claiming (no cumbersome third party interface)
• Fully featured banking function allows for an unlimited number of bank accounts
• Split payments (by patient or item number) and corporate accounts
• Auto reconciliation for Medicare on-line (no labour intensive third party services)
• Fully configurable GL adjusting journals capability
• Practitioner by practitioner or consolidated billing and reconciliation capability
• Unlimited fee schedules and price book

Electronic Claiming

• Medicare Australia On-line
• HICAPS
• Medicare Easy Claims compliant

Financial Reporting

• Revenue analysis can be reported for any combination of practitioner, location and item# in any date range.
• Debtors analysis can be reported for any combination of practitioner, location and item# in any date range (including automatic Medicare on-line reconciliation)
• Account adjustments can be reported and the output used as the basis for accounting journals
• Banking reports provide the basis for deposit slips across multiple accounts and locations including any on-line receipts from Medicare Australia
• Referring doctors can be tracked as to the nature of referred work
• Output to MS Word, MS Excel and Adobe PDF suite
• Controlled user access (administrator defined)

Picture Archiving & Communications System (PACS)

rxhealthcare offers an integrated PACS as part of its Radiology Information System (RIS) product module. An important part of any PACS offering is an ability to seamlessly accept DICOM images from a wide range of diagnostic equipment vendors.

Picture Archiving and Communications System (PACS) are computers or networks dedicated to the storage, retrieval, distribution and presentation of images. The images are stored in an independent format, the most common of which is DICOM. Here is some more detailed information about PatientSoft’s PACS solution.

The Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) standard is used by virtually every medical profession that utilizes images within the healthcare industry. DICOM also addresses the integration of information produced by these various specialty applications in the patient’s Electronic Health Record (EHR).

Digital voice dictation & integrated voice recording

• Report anywhere, type anywhere on the network – work from home
• Long term archive of voice dictation files
• USB audio equipment- Philips speech microphone and foot pedal or mouse driven with standard headset and microphone
• External access to voice reports (user defined) via optional portal for external contractors and typing services
• Dictation available for typing as soon as saved by the practitioner
• Ability to “park” a case and type another
• Speech can be overwritten during editing or amendments
• Replay of voice files can also be achieved through standard workstation speaker system

Typing, transcription and word processing

• Work List or barcode driven workflow
• Inbuilt Digital Dictation playback (operates with standard foot pedal and headphones)
• In-built word processor or export to MS Word
• Spell checker, facsimile signature, automatic addressing
• Create templates
• Outputs and Reports via MS Word and Adobe PDF suite for printing and storage as required

Electronic prescribing

• Full PBS database (including interactions)
• Diagnosis coding by practitioner
• Advances search functionality
• Send via secure communication (pharmacy dependent)

Theatre list/ surgical audit

• Fully integrated with Appointments/ Diary
• Integrated pre operative documentation
• Equipment and other operational requirements automatically linked to procedure (user defined)
• Electronic purchase ordering (equipment suppliers) and post operative account reconciliation capability
• Summary of all procedures performed can be generated using the following filters (date range; location; referring doctor; patient name; practitioner; item number codes; assisting surgeon; anesthetist).
• Theatre list can be output to MS Word, MS Excel or Adobe PDF suite for email or faxing
• Theatre list can be sent electronically to hospital via secure communication protocol (hospital dependent)
• Integrated Electronic Discharge Summary

Clinical worksheets

• Specialty specific worksheets and formatted outputs
• Customizable
• Output to MS Word, MS Excel and Adobe PDF suite
• Share data with external parties for patient care, research projects and on-line compliance

Requests

• Radiology
• Pathology
• Send via secure communications (provider dependent)

Secure messaging & communications

• Health Link
• Medical Objects

Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

• Integrated Current and Prospective patient database (full history of all marketing programs)
• Past and potential referrer database (including full history of referrals and past marketing campaigns)
• Advanced target audience planning and identification
• Campaign planner and archive
• In-built word processor for creation of targeted correspondence
• Access to third party service providers that is quarantined from patient clinical information
• Output to MS Word, MS Excel and Adobe PDF suite for reporting or further analysis

Web portal interface

• Create a secure interface to your practice for patients, referrers and approved third parties (user defined)
• Link to a nominated web site
• Create a new customer interface to build your business

Application Service Provider (ASP)

• Contact us and enquire about the variety of ASP options you can access

Software as a Service (SaaS)

• Contact us and enquire about the variety of SaaS options you can access

Research & Reference Suite

• Contact us and enquire about the variety of reference options to which you can link

Remote Real Time Access

• Access from consulting room
• Access from home
• Access from hospital
• Access from car
• Access when traveling anywhere there is Internet access globally
• Access via wireless devices and protocols

Technical Information

• JAVA
• Paperless (excluding HIC and other statutory requirements)
• Operating System Independent
• Database Engine Independent
• Hardware Independent
• Office Software Independent
• Open access to all DICOM compatible viewers
• Works over the Internet, LAN, VPN and WAN
• Developed and supported in Australia by Australians

Hardware Options

• Windows
• MacOS X
• Handheld devices
• Touch Screen computers

Product Demonstration

• Call us on 03 9854 6174 or email on admin@patientsoft.com.au
• On-line demonstration in your office or remotely on the web by appointment

Security

• Advanced user profiling
• Advanced security controls over password expiry and user identification
• Industry leading encryption
• Full audit trail

Document Scanning

• Move to a paperless office
• Support for industry standard document scanners
• Access to scanned documents via inbuilt PACS server
• Long term storage of documents linked to patient record
• Reprint any scanned document