Practice Partner Add-On & 3rd Party Products

Practice Partner offers many exciting products that may be of interest and offer value for your office. Below are brief descriptions of add-on and 3rd party interface products sold through Practice Partner. For further information on any products that are of interest to you,call a SCIMedical representative to receive a product bulletin that goes into full detail on the product’s features, benefits, pricing and hardware/software specifications. Training and configuration for the products noted below may require the purchase of additional training and configuration.

Add-On Products

• Clinical Tools includes Drug Therapy Support Databases (drug interaction, dose advisor, drug diagnosis and drug disease checking), Prescription Templates, and Clinical Templates (progress note, letter and message templates).
• Code Wizard is code scrubbing software that assists in proper coding when posting the CPT and ICD-9 codes into the Medical Billing software.
• CPT – ICD-9 Update Service includes a CD with new diagnosis and procedure codes as well as an easy-to-use utility that enables you to load the codes into Practice Partner Medical Billing and Patient Records.
• Dragon NaturallySpeaking is voice recognition software integrated within Practice Partner Patient Records.
• Electronic Eligibility Verification allows real-time access to patient insurance status including co-pay amounts and deductible information.
• Electronic Remittance Advice is an Explanation of Benefits (EOB) that provides the ability to post payments electronically within Medical Billing.
• ExitCare is designed for ambulatory surgery and urgent care facilities, allowing providers to easily supply detailed and customized Patient Education and Discharge Instructions at the time the patient is released.
• Formularies allow you to automatically cross-reference medications against their patients’ insurance formularies at the time a prescription is written.
• Glucose Meter Interface gives you the ability to directly import blood glucose meter readings into Practice Partner Patient Records from the patient’s meter to review the full patient.
• Gynecology Content features more than 150 progress note templates for documenting new patient encounters, follow-up visits, preop and postop visits, annual exams, pelvic/breast exams, and more.
• Immunization Registry Interface connects to state Immunization Registries which stores patient demographic and immunization information (coming soon).
• InfoScan Prescription Formulary links prescriptions to patient’s formulary to assist with formulary compliance.
• Instant Medical History is a patient interview software application integrated with Practice Partner Patient Records.
• Integrated ECG allows the collection and storage of electrocardiographs from within Practice Partner Patient Records.
  
• Integrated Fax Server allows you to fax prescriptions, notes, letters, and charts directly from Practice Partner with Windows 2003 Fax Server.
  
• Integrated Spirometry allows the collection and storage of pulmonary function tests from within Practice Partner Patient Records.
  
• Microsoft SQL is a database management system recommended for larger facilities (more than 5 providers) or those with complex networks or Wide Area Network (WAN) configurations.
  
• Order Entry facilitates the creation, fulfillment, and tracking of orders for diagnostic and treatment services, such as laboratory, radiology, pathology, immunizations, ECGs, and virtually any other type of physician order.
  
• Orthopedic Content includes more than 35 progress note templates for documenting new patient encounters, follow-up visits, postop visits, ultrasound procedures, DEXA scans, physical exams, and more.
  
• Patient Education provides a comprehensive computer-based educational module that can be accessed at the point of care via Practice Partner Patient Records - consisting of an extensive array of handouts on hundreds of medical conditions, procedures, parenting issues, and drug products.
  
• Practice Partner Research Network (PPRNet) is the first practice-based research network facilitating collaborative research among physicians who use electronic medical records.
  
• Practice Partner Clearinghouse is a complete electronic claims solution which provides practices with the ability to submit HIPAA-compliant electronic claims to virtually all major payors.
  
• Quest Torol Bridge is a real-time interface that uploads demographic information from Practice Partner Patient Records to the Quest 360 Lab Ordering system.
  
• SureScripts allows users to electronically send prescriptions and receive renewal requests through the SureScripts Electronic Prescribing Networkâ„¢.
  
• Urology Content includes 35 progress note templates with hundreds of associated Quicktexts (brief clinical phrases that can be inserted into a progress note with a click), plus eight letter templates.
  
• Vital Signs Monitor is an interface that enables vital signs data capture to be electronically transferred into Practice Partner Patient Records.
  
• WebView is a full-featured patient portal that allows physicians to share Patient Records charts online safely and conveniently.
  
• Zetafax is an integrated part of Practice Partner Patient Records which allows you to electronically send faxes from Practice Partner through Zetafax’s secure, fast and cost effective fax server technology.
  
• Zoom is a document management application that eases the scanning process, linking documentation to patient’s records. Zoom can also run as an ASP application, hosted by Practice Partner.

3rd Party Interfaces

The creation and deployment of interfaces are a central part of Practice Partner’s development and implementation process. Practice Partner offers both standardized interfaces and custom interfaces in both real-time and batch modes, depending on the needs of the customer. Practice Partner is capable of providing in-bound, out-bound, and bi-directional interfaces. Practice Partner has developed a specialized interface team and can build virtually any type of interface using industry-accepted data formats such as HL7 or ASCII. Practice Partner has successfully developed and deployed interfaces to all of the major clinical reference labs, such as Quest Diagnostics and LabCorp; the major practice management systems, such as Medical Manager and IDX; hospital systems, such as Cerner and MediTech; radiology systems; and many other specialized systems.

There are a variety of third-party products (software and hardware), not made or sold by Practice Partner that may become a part of your overall project. Unless otherwise specified within the project plan, your Practice Partner project manager does not train or configure any products that are not purchased directly from Practice Partner. Therefore, you should make provisions to receive appropriate training or configuration instruction from the vendor from whom you purchase the third-party product. Below are some examples of third-party products.

• Scanning Devices and Related Software – Scanners are devices used to convert paper documents (such as discharge summaries, pathology reports, and other patient related documents) into an electronic format, which then allows them to be stored within a patient’s electronic medical record. Scanners are an essential component of a paperless EHR project. As noted above, it will be the responsibility of the practice to purchase, set-up and configure the hardware and software within the scanning device so that you are able to create electronic documents that can be attached to a patient’s electronic medical record.

Your Practice Partner project manager or trainer will not be prepared to install, train or troubleshoot any scanner or scanning software for you. You will need to make sure that your staff has a good understanding of how to use the scanner and the software you choose to scan your images. We will provide you with the appropriate specifications for both scanners and file types that are required by Practice Partner and as appropriate make recommendations about third-party software (including optical character recognition software and image indexing software). Additionally, once you have created the electronic file of the paper document, we will train you on how to attach that file to a particular patient’s electronic medical record (as well as documentation that describes how to do this).

• Fax Servers – Fax servers enable your office to fax directly from your computer. This is not a Practice Partner requirement; however, it can greatly increase the efficiency of your office. Practice Partner does not install or configure fax servers, therefore, your project manager or trainer will not be prepared to install, configure or train you on how to use the fax server software you may have purchased. Your staff will need to gain that training prior to the Practice Partner user training. This will require that the server be installed and in place prior to training as well. Your trainer will simply show your staff where to find the fax option when printing prescriptions. The two primary fax server systems are the Windows 2003 Fax Server and Zetafax which are both explained in the Add-On Products section above.

• Fine Print – Fine Print is the name of specialized software that can be used in conjunction with your fax server to enable you to embed a copy of your signature on each of your prescriptions. If you have purchased this software, you will need to have the software configured and know how to use it prior to the training if you would like it included in the Practice Partner training of faxing/printing prescriptions. While the Practice Partner application has the capability to imbed signatures in places such as prescriptions, letters and progress notes, Fine Print has a more robust set of features and options.

• RemoteScan – A third party utility allows our ASP server to control their scanner. With Remote Scan a practice can open Practice Partner’s Zoom feature and scan efficiently over the ASP’s internet connection.