Physician Practices
Do you recognize these diagnosis codes? 300.02, 784.0, 564.0, 787.91, 296.80, 401, 553.3

[Hint: Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Headache, Constipation, Diarrhea, Bipolar Disorder, Hypertension, and Hernia]

If you said, Yes, and these diagnoses describe not one of your patients, but you or your practice, then you should contact HealthCore MSO. HealthCore MSO has a number of practice management tools that simplify office operations, enhance financial management, and support improved patient care.

Rx for Success
HealthCore MSO offers physician practices a number of business, financial, and information technology resources:

Services

• Web-based technology
• Practice Management
• e-Prescribing
• Electronic Medical Records
• Physician/Patient Web Portal

HealthCore MSO's strategic partners provide secure, web-based technology which is accessible anywhere and anytime. The bi-directional interfaces amongst disparate products let you pick and choose best of breed products which deliver and automate existing manual functions.

HealthCore MSO enhances physician practices through proven technology and trusted expertise. We guarantee we can help.

Practice Management
Are you still using a legacy system? Are you responsible for upgrades and steep maintenance fees? Are you receiving all the benefits from a state-of- the-art Practice Management System?

HealthCore MSO can provide your practice with these benefits:

• Claims Scrubbing
• Electronic Charge Capture
• Multiple locations can share the same real-time data
• Not so complex that it requires weeks of training
• Complete scalability to accommodate growth
• Web-based ASP subscription service
• Fast return on investment for any practice model
• Lower total cost of ownership
• No updates to be done at local site, as they are handled centrally
• Flexibility to be interfaced with most EMR's
• Unlimited Reporting Capabilities

Put our years of physician practice management consulting to work for you, by leveraging our knowledgebase and research to evaluate and adopt the most cost-effective and robust Practice Management software in the industry.

e-Prescibing
e-Prescribing allows physicians to better manage their patients' medications by presenting all drug-related information about a patient electronically, in one place. An online e-Prescribing application allows a physician to quickly and easily prescribe and refill prescriptions using any retail or mail-order pharmacy.
 

Let's also not forget about the government payment penalties/reductions for those who have not adopted e-Prescribe technology.

Electronic Health Records
An EHR should allow everyone involved in a patient's care to easily create, update and access online patient records. We suggest you evaluate these features as potential benefits when purchasing an EMR:

• Save time and money -saves valuable time by eliminating the need for chart pulls, faxes and phone calls, transcription, and scanning.
• Reduce Stress - Eliminate the pressure and inefficiencies caused when charts or information are missing. With charts that are always where you know they will be, staff can spend their time helping providers and patients instead of searching for charts, and questions and requests for refills can be handled immediately.
• Share information throughout the community - Without faxing, chart pulls or phone calls, you should be able to automatically send referrals and consult reports, and record a HIPAA-compliant record of exactly what has been sent. Does the EMR include a permissions sharing system allowing you to share patient charts with on-call doctors or hospital ER providers?
• Receive information automatically and instantaneously - Does the EMR work with the labs, radiology centers and hospitals in your community to allow you to receive results and reports automatically - as soon as they are available - without scanning or re-entry?
• Manage your workflow - How easily does the EMR fit into the workflow of your practice with all the information you need to manage your patients - including an inbox containing new lab results, radiology reports, prescriptions to review, your daily patient encounters, and other messages and reminders - displayed on one screen, making it easy to manage your daily process? Is there a Dashboard displaying only the information each employee needs, and contains a community rolodex and links to online resources?
• Improve patient care - Does the system provide tools for analysis, including lab trending over time, custom flow sheets, medication histories with allergies, refills and new medications, chart summaries with customizable views and alerts and reminders?
• Intuitive and easy to use - With wireless touch screen tablets, information is available when and where you need it so that you can sit face-to-face with patients and visually share chart information with them. Does the EMR allow you to enter information into a medical record via the method that works best for you: voice recognition, templates, handwriting recognition, or typing?
• Online technology - Is the EMR accessed via web-based technology, so there are no servers to buy, configure and maintain, and no software to install and update? The days of purchasing a box for your office are over. Your vendor should provide the necessary servers, security, maintenance, backups, redundant services, fax server operation and automatic application updates, and allow easy access from any Internet connection. Is the technology affordable? Is a large capital investment required? Can you purchase the technology on a subscription basis?
• Anytime, anywhere access - Can you login from anywhere - your clinic, the hospital, your home, or while on vacation?
• Return on Investment - Will you see a return on your investment in weeks or months rather than years? Does the software provide for a modular approach, allowing you to add clinical modules at a comfortable pace?

Physician/Patient Web Portal
Does your practice have an online presence? Should you?

According to a new study, from the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions, nearly 80 percent of healthcare consumers are interested in having e-mail access to a physician - and 23 percent would be willing to pay extra for it.