Practice Partner - Patient Education

Practice Partner Patient Education provides a comprehensive computer-based educational module that can be accessed at the point of care via Practice Partner Patient Records. Created in conjunction with Clinical Reference Systems, Practice Partner Patient Education consists of an extensive array of handouts on hundreds of medical conditions, procedures, parenting issues, and drug products. With the purchase of a yearly subscription, Patient Education can generate handouts that provide patients with easy-to-read information written in plain, non-medical language. These materials will help physicians better explain conditions and treatment to their patients at the point of care and gives patients up-to-date information that they can take home with them.

Summary of Key Benefits:

* Convenience: A complete educational library at the point of care

* Easy to Manage: No shelf space required. Eliminates stocking/restocking of paper-based materials.

* Easily Updated: Software updates provide the latest and greatest information

* Risk Reducing: Helps reduce your risk of malpractice liability

* Time Saving: Reduces phone calls and interruptions from patients and office staff, allowing you to spend more time with patients

Summary of Key Features:

* Comprehensive: Hundreds of medical conditions with new additions each year

* Easy to Personalize: Patient Education allows the provider to attach additional notes to the educational handout, allowing for more personalized information to be presented

* Versatile: The handout can be printed and also e-mailed to the patient

* Bilingual: About 300 Pediatric, Adult, and Women’s Health topics are available in Spanish

* Intelligent: Patient Education can automatically select the appropriate education module for a patient, as determined by a patient’s age, sex, and profile. The educational module most suited for the patient is accessed first when Patient Education is accessed in the presence of the patient’s open chart.

* Organized: Topics can be searched by alphabetic order and by ICD-9, CPT, and SNOMED codes

Questions about Practice Partner Patient Education:

What areas does it cover?

Practice Partner Patient Education is offered in 5 specific modules:

* Pediatric Advisor

 Covers over 1000 pediatric health and behavioral problems. Includes comprehensive book lists for adults and children covering a broad range of health, behavioral, and coping topics to promote better health and understanding.

* Adult Health Advisor

 Includes over 600 medical and surgical topics covering a broad range of adult health areas to promote better health and understanding.

* Women’s Health Advisor

Covers over 600 up-to-date women’s health issues, conditions, and procedures covering all aspects of gynecology, obstetrics, and newborn care, as well as many primary care areas.

* Behavioral Health Advisor

Covers pediatric and adult mental illnesses, disorders, and behavioral problems in a style and at a reading level that encourages your patients to read and remember.

Senior Health Advisor

 Covers an extensive range of topics on many aspects of geriatric care for patients and their caregivers. Helps promote responsibility for at-home care. Lists agencies, organizations, associations, and support groups that offer assistance and support for various illnesses and issues faced by elderly patients.

Is it updated?

Yes. Through the purchase of our yearly subscription we provide annual updates for the database, incorporating the latest medical data available

How does it work?

Once installed, Patient Education adds an icon to the Patient Records toolbar. The Patient Education database resides on a central server in HTML format, utilizing Patient Records version 7.0’s integrated web browser allowing access to the Patient Education database directly from the workstation.

Who writes the handouts?

The information in Patient Education comes from over 300 writers and reviewers, as well as medical organizations such as the American Academy of Family Physicians Foundation and the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

Are the handouts written in a language that patients can understand?

Yes. The reading level for most topics is no higher than eighth grade, and many are at a fifth to sixth grade reading level.

How long is each handout?

The average length is one to two pages.

Can I edit or add a topic?

Yes. Existing handouts can be edited via Microsoft Word, FrontPage, or any other HTML editor. New handouts can also be created using any of the above listed programs.

Are disease and procedure classifications such as ICD-9 coding available?

Yes. The Adult Health Advisor, Pediatric Advisor, and Women’s Health Advisor files have been assigned coding for ICD-9, CPT, and SNOMED classifications.

How is Patient Education sold?

To purchase Patient Education, just contact your account representative or authorized dealer, or fill out the enclosed order form and mail/fax it to Practice Partner.

Price:

Physicians can subscribe to individual databases or to all five. The subscription costs are: $600 per physician for the complete suite of databases, or $200 per physician for individual databases ($600 minimum purchase). The annual renewal fee is $150 per physician for the suite, and $50 per physician for each individual database.

Hardware Requirements:

No special hardware is required, only 5.3 MB of free disk space.

Software Requirements:

Patient Education requires Practice Partner Patient Records version 7.0.