ChartConnect is a complete patient management tool with a full set of productivity and decision support features in an intuitive, easy-to-use online tool that is accessible anywhere, anytime. We concentrate all of our energy and expertise on our unparalleled EMR, which integrates seamlessly with a clinic’s existing practice management system. Here are some of our current features. Based on customer feedback and recommendations, new features are always in development.

Provider Features

• Online access to the key elements of the clinical record required for high volume, non-revenue generating tasks in ambulatory medicine.
  • Office notes, phone notes, physical exams, letters
  • Current medications
  • Medication history
  • Refill history
  • Allergies
  • Patient Demographics & Insurance Information
  • Laboratory orders & Results
  • Radiology/Imaging Orders & Reports
  • Social history
  • Family history
  • Diagnostic history
  • Sugical history
  • Flow sheets (Diabetes, Coumadin, Lipids or customized)
  • Ordering from the Encounter with automatic Plan Creation
  • Charge Capture and E & M Calculator

• Provider Inbox
  • Prescription review
  • Lab & Radiology review
  • Lab & Radiology comment messaging

• Medication Management
  • Express writing of frequently used prescriptions
  • One click creation of frequently used prescriptions for future use
  • Formulary of thousands of brand name and generic drugs
  • Automatic submission of new medications for addition to formulary
  • Refill multiple medications at one time
  • Documentation of all current medications
  • Documentation of all previous medications including start and stop dates, reason for stopping
  • Documentation of all prescriptions printed or faxed by system
  • Stop, edit, refill, or hold multiple medications in a single step
  • Automatic display of medications stopped for allergy or adverse reactions in the allergy table without requiring dual entry
  • Rapid creation of acute and chronic medication lists
  • Washington State Board of Pharmacy approved system
  • Display of all new or refilled prescriptions written under the provider's authority for approval in the prescription review inbox

• Chart Note Management
  • View all text entries displayed by note type, date, author
  • Easily customizable menu of note types
  • Incorporate meds, allergies, and other chart data in notes if desired
  • Displays all provider/nurse clinical documentation regardless of type in one location
  • Laboratory Results Management
  • View lab results sorted by date, test type, ordering provider, lab source and status
  • Online sign off of test results from the provider inbox or lab section of clinical chart
  • Comments with date/time stamp attached to lab for future reference
  • Forward labs with comments to another provider or nurse
  • View comments and attached test result from the note section of chart
  • Date/time stamp when lab is signed off by ordering provider or reviewed by other provider/nurse
  • One click display of lab trends

Nurse Features

• Online access to the key elements of the clinical record required for high volume, non-revenue generating tasks in ambulatory medicine.
• Prescription Management as described for providers plus:
  • Nurse documentation requires her to indicate which provider she is prescribing for with the provision of default for her usual provider
  • Medication lists, allergy lists, refill history, and medication history each display authorizing nurse and provider
• Chart Note Management as described for providers plus
  • Nurse notes documentation displays the supervising provider for each entry
• Nursing Inbox
  • Displays incoming provider messages regarding patient labs and allows for documentation of response

Medical Records Features

• Send records via electronic, fax or print with automatic HIPAA-compliant report
• Restricted access to patient demographics for addition of transcribed reports
• Optional inclusion of medication lists with notes to enhance documentation
• Streamlined assignment of transcription by provider and by date

Billing Office Features

• Restricted access to view notes and medication lists for insurance inquiries
• Print capability
• Eliminates chart pulls and speeds response to insurance inquiries

Clinical Note Management

• View all notes and provider comments in Note View by date, note type, and author
• Add notes by keyboard, voice recognition, macros and/or transcription
• Optional inclusion of specified chart information on meds, allergies, and data elements
• Most recent notes displayed in a scrolling frame for easy review
• Notes catalogued by enterprise specified type for easy review
• Nurse notes display the responsible supervising provider

Laboratory Results Management

• PAML HL-7 Interfaces for national, regional and hospital labs
• Display results by test type, date, and status
• Abnormal results presented bright-red
• Documentation of lab review and sign off status
• Comment on and forward lab within clinic
• Trend lab in a table for comparison over time
• Unsigned lab results held in ordering provider inbox but accessible for review in chart
• Lab comments displayed in the Lab View and Note View sections

Prescription Management

• Extensive brand name and generic formulary
• Quick pick prescription formulary
• Allows prescribing of non formulary medications
• User driven expansion of quick pick formulary
• Detailed medication profile
• Detailed refill history
• Washington State Board of Pharmacy approved

Administration Features

• Users assigned by enterprise and clinic
• Maintenance of tables for
  • Users
  • Clinics
  • Pharmacy fax information
  • Main formulary
  • Quick Pick formulary
  • Drug reactions
  • Reference directories

Security

• Windows NT network security plus
• Clinic specific username and password for access to the EMR server and
• User specific username and password to identify user to application
• Access to clinical information on a need-to-know basis
• System tracks author of all actions on medications, allergy tables, notes and comments
• Chart entries for notes, lab comments, medications, and allergies cannot be deleted
• System notifies provider of all medications prescribed or refilled on behalf of that provider
• Provision for notification of a patients assigned provider when chart accessed by a non-clinic provider of the same enterprise

Clinical Messaging

• Notification of prescriptions for review
• Notification of new labs, radiology and transcription for review
• Lab, radiology and transcription comment forwarding

Reference Links

• Links to frequently used healthcare web sites
• Public directory of Yakima and regional providers, hospitals, clinics, nursing homes and pharmacies
• Private clinic directories for providers, nurses and office staff