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Running a medical practice has daily challenges, especially when it comes to managing clinical workflow. Today’s busy physician practice needs an all-in-one solution that supports both the clinical and administrative sides of the business.
With CareTracker’s fully integrated EMR/EHR (electronic medical record – electronic health record) system, physician practices can speed clinical tasks, from writing paper and electronic prescriptions, receiving electronic prescription refill requests, ordering tests and receiving results directly through CareTracker’s electronic medical records and electronic health records, tracking diagnostic history and entering structured text and customizable patient notes. By combining clinical and business workflow into one Web-based, integrated, comprehensive system, physician practices can save valuable staff time, enhance practice productivity and improve office workflow.
With CareTracker Electronic Medical Records / Electronic Health Records, physician practices can:
- Capture each patient visit electronically
- Write Electronic Prescriptions and receive Electronic Prescription Refill Requests
- Manage and document all patient communications quickly and efficiently
- Enhance clinical guidelines and clinical diagnosis workflow
- Enter structured text and customizable notes
- Automate order processing, including referrals, lab requisitions, testing orders and receiving interfaced test results
- Maintain a comprehensive appointment history across the enterprise
- Utilize clinical forms such as Vital Signs and other base functionalities
- Track patient allergies, immunizations and diagnostic history
- Participate in PQRI
- Capture and store clinical images
A Wealth of Data Elements
CareTracker’s EMR/EHR system will include more than 270,000 clinical data elements covering symptoms, history, physical examination, tests, diagnoses and therapy; and will enable users to rapidly enter, retrieve, and correlate relevant clinical information at the point of care. CareTracker EMR/EHR users will also be able to incorporate their own custom data sets and templates into the system.
Also, through a single-click search, physicians can instantly retrieve electronic patient charts, encounter notes, patient vitals, history, review of systems, procedure notes, medical assessments and plans. CareTracker Electronic Medical Records / Electronic Health Records complements office workflow functions with full detail or summary information on diagnoses, medications, allergies, immunizations, lab results, imaging exams, encounters and vital statistics.
Extensive use of graphs and flow sheets let practices quickly see pertinent patient information from a variety of views. Because it is fully integrated with all other CareTracker modules, CareTracker EMR/EHR minimizes additional data entry. Templates capture information quickly from both patients and providers. Encounter notes can be entered directly or attached as notes from third-party products such as voice, transcription, word processing or handheld devices.
Order management
CareTracker EMR/EHR automates order processing including prescriptions, referrals, lab requisitions, imaging and other diagnostic testing orders; and the integrated Forms Manager allows practices to print or fax requisitions and scripts at the point of service. Reminders and escalation procedures ensure active follow-up on orders awaiting results or reports.
Finally, CareTracker EMR/EHR stores a history of all medications in the patient’s unique electronic medical record. As a result, physician practices can keep an accurate record of all medications, both past and present, giving providers a quick, comprehensive picture of past and current treatments.
No Hidden Cost
CareTracker's Electronic Medical Records / Electronic Health Records access is paid for via a predictable monthly subscription, which means you don’t have to invest resources in IT, hardware, or maintenance costs common to client-server setups. In addition, CareTracker is maintained and co-located at redundant HIPAA-compliant data centers.
What Will EMR/EHR (Electronic Medical Records/Electronic Health Records) Mean to You?
Physician Incentive Payments. Beginning 2011, Medicare will pay a physician (or the physician’s group practice) annual incentives for being a “meaningful EHR user” up to the following amounts:
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Year Physician Is Meaningful EHR User |
Calendar Year |
Maximum Medicare Incentive Payment |
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If 1st year of meaningful EHR use is: |
2011 or 2012 |
$18,000 |
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2013 |
$15,000 |
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2014 |
$12,000 |
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2015 or after |
$0 |
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If 2nd year of meaningful EHR use is: |
2012, 2013 or 2014 |
$12,000 |
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2015 |
$8,000 |
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2016 or after |
$0 |
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If 3rd year of meaningful EHR use is: |
2013, 2014 or 2015 |
$8,000 |
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2016 |
$4,000 |
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2017 or after |
$0 |
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If 4th year of meaningful EHR use is: |
2014, 2015 or 2016 |
$4,000 |
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2017 or after |
$0 |
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If 5th year of meaningful EHR use is: |
2015 or 2016 |
$2,000 |
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2017 or after |
$0 |
Physician Payment Reductions for Non-EHR Use. DHHS will decrease Medicare Part B payments to physicians who were eligible to be, but failed to become, “meaningful EHR users” by 2015. The reductions will be as follows:
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Calendar Year |
Reduction in Medicare Part B Payments |
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2015 |
1% if physician is e-prescriber |
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2% if physician is not e-prescriber |
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2016 |
2% |
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2017 and after |
3% |
After 2017, DHHS may decrease Medicare Part B payments an additional 1% for each year in which less than 75% of the physicians eligible to be “meaningful EHR users” are using EHRs. The maximum Medicare Part B payment decrease is 5%. DHHS may exempt from the Medicare Part B payment reductions a physician for whom becoming a “meaningful EHR user” would be a “significant hardship.” An exemption must end after five years.