eClinicalWorks Version 8 Offers Many New Features
eClinicalWorks will release its most robust version yet. The company has spent months working with customers at the November 2006 Roundtable, the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, and Northwest user group to enhance its EMR and PM solutions. eClinicalWorks will now support state-of-the-art chronic and preventative care management with patient-centric clinical decision support and population measures. The practice management system has been enriched with enterprise functions to support multiple sites of any size and multiple specialties.
The bar has been set high with the 8.0 roadmap and eClinicalWorks is confident it will reset expectations.
EMR
Enhancing its flagship solution, eClinicalWorks has developed clinical measures and new ways for managing chronic and preventative care through an eClinicalWorks designed Clinical Decision Support System, further distinguishing eClinicalWorks’ EMR and benefiting customers across the United States. A sample of additional enhancements includes:
- Structured data for reporting and researching patient information;
- Enhanced referral management;
- New Drug Database - Medi-Span®;
- Support of LOINC codes in labs; and
- Order Sets.
Practice Management
The practice management portion of the solution meets the needs of large/enterprise clients. Enhancements have been made to the enterprise workflow management for claims along with PQRI support. Here are just some of the additional new developments:
- Automated claims and statement processing;
- Rejection-based workflow manager;
- Enterprise task manager; and
- Hard close for claims, payments, refunds and adjustments.
eClinicalWorks Electronic Health eXchange (eEHX)
eClinicalWorks Electronic Health eXchange (eEHX) continues to be the glue that binds all of its solutions together to create a holistic view of a patient’s ambulatory record for community-wide projects with enhancements including:
- AElectronic referrals;
- Importing/exporting patient records; and
- Quality and care management.
Patient Portal
Patient Portal now offers enhanced patient communication via text message (SMS) in addition to the always available e-mail. Additional new features include:
- Integration with Instant Medical History;
- Enhanced patient history intake; and
- Ability to support specialty-specific history questionnaires.
NEW! eClinicalWorks Business Optimization (eBO)
eClinicalWorks is also launching a new product — eClinicalWorks Business Optimization (eBO). The new clinical and monetary business optimization features that are included in eBO will allow for more dynamic reporting with drill-down and custom report writing based on meta-data. This solution will enable customers to create their own customized reports.
