Intuitive, Customizable.  e-MDs Chart allows swift and complete documentation at the point of care. Medication order entry reduces errors, resulting in better patient care. Integrated evidence-based guidelines assist the physician in providing optimal care for chronic diseases. This translates into better outcomes and higher patient satisfaction.

Increased Profitability and Rapid ROI.  Chart increases profitability by decreasing documentation time, justifying higher coding levels, prompting for complete charge capture, eliminating transcription expense, reducing paper costs, and decreasing malpractice exposure. Practice profitability is not necessarily dependent on seeing more patients to make up for reduced reimbursement. The key is increasing the efficiency of your current operational workflow without compromising quality of care. The combination of higher reimbursement for cognitive services, combined with saving hours each day in visit and documentation time and decreased expenses, routinely result in dramatic increases in revenue.

ROI from Time Savings Using e-MDs Chart and our patent pending FastForm to speed medical history gathering, real timesavings can be achieved. Streamlining patient flow and improving documentation accuracy may realize real efficiencies. The average time saved in documenting a patient visit with Chart is 5 minutes. New innovations including 'Short-cuts' and FastForm mean charting can be done in real-time, at the point of encounter, without longer appointments. Using structured data entry (such as templates), especially with the ability to save personalized versions of these templates in a pre-clicked fashion, results in minimal impact on provider workflow (speed). This facilitates the use of pre-prepared information when the majority of patient visits are for a group of diagnoses with similar patient presentations, exams, and treatment plans.

Annual Practice Statistics
Average time saved in documenting a visit		5 minutes
Average physician appointments per day		25
Total minutes saved per day	(25 visits x 5 minutes)	125 (2 hours)
Total days worked in 12 month period	(5 days/wk x 48 wks)	240
Total hours saved per year	(240 days x 2 hours)	480
Total weeks of work saved per year	(480 hrs / 40 hrs/wk)	12 weeks

If the 2 hours saved each day using Chart to document visits is converted into more visits, you could see an additional 6 to 7 patients per day. Before managed care became so intrusive, you could net approximately $200 per hour for your efforts. Even with managed care, you should be able to average $50 per patient visit.

ROI from Time Savings
Additional patient visits per day		6.5
Total days worked in 12 month period	(5 days/wk x 48 wks)	240
Additional patient visits per year	(6.5 visits x 240 days)	1,560
Total ROI for First Year	(1,560 visits x $50)	$78,000

Alternatively, you can simply go home earlier every day and spend time with your family.

Six ways to Return on Investment

Improves Patient Care.  Integrated health maintenance and disease management rules alert physicians about outstanding tests and procedures. Built in clinical hints suggest best practices. Prescriptions are checked for drug-drug, drug-interaction, cross-sensitivity reactions and contra-indications, and easily let physicians find alternative drugs in the same class.

Streamlines or Eliminates Paper Processes.  Chart streamlines awkward paper processes and eliminates duplicate data entry. Messages, alerts, and reminders are automatically added to a patient's chart. Referral letters mail merge patient demographic details, as well as parts of the note. Chart follows an intuitive SOAP format and places all pertinent information on one screen, displaying the current progress note alongside the patient's health summary. FastForm technology cuts documentation time in half and allows physicians to have patient-entered documentation stored in a structured data record. Customizable templates, preloaded with routine answers, can serve as clinical protocols and allow one-click documentation as well as documentation of multiple complex problems. The script writer includes shortcuts that allow frequently used prescriptions to be written or refilled with just a click or two.

Integrated, Customizable Knowledge Bases and Reference Material.  Chart includes complete Physicians' Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®), ICD-9, and HCPCS databases. Derived from authoritative texts and NIH guidelines, our clinical consults offer the latest diagnostic and treatment guidelines for over 1,500 diseases. Evidence-based guidelines and disease management ticklers help ensure superior patient care and outcomes. The extensive drug database of nearly 35,000 medications, vitamins, and nutraceuticals lists available forms and strengths and offers full prescribing consults. Enhanced patient knowledge is reinforced with physician editable English and Spanish patient education handouts, covering nearly 1,500 conditions and medications. High-resolution anatomical art can now be added to procedure reports, referral letters, or the medical record. Specialists can send professional looking consult letters to their referring colleagues.