 Ballston Lake EMS is newly adopting the Electronic PCR's. Thats right, we as an agency are moving ahead in these technological times, but we cant do it alone, we are teaming up with emsCharts to help us out. Do you want to learn more about emsCharts, well lets ask the experts and see what E-Pcr's are all about.
* All information provided by emsCharts, A wonderful organization to work with.
emsCharts
While the focus of pre-hospital information management will always be the medical record, emergency care providers and managers have far broader needs. emsCharts provides an agency with a true Intranet - a web site dedicated to improving the information management for an organization.
emsCharts consists of the following modules:
 Medical Records
Designed from a clinical prospective, this module provides complete electronic charting capabilities to eliminate Patient Care Record (PCR) errors and maintain pertinent information. The Medical Records module provides the following features:
• Streamlined data entry with dialog and drop down menus
• Clinically driven system design to mirror patient care
• Flexible user defined system configuration
• Instant access to information for improved patient healthcare
• Customized data elements to meet service's specific needs
• Electronic exports of PCR to the state level
• HIPAA compliance with quality assurance locks and security privileges
• Minimal redundant data entry for time savings and consistency
• Detail activity logs documenting patient care
• Form letter templates for Medicare, reporting, and customer support purposes
• Supply tracking for improved inventory control
• Infinite reporting capabilities with text and graphic presentations
• Built in PCR audit process for improved quality control
 Quality Assurance
Designed to provide an audit trail for monitoring all aspects of critical care and emergency transport services.
• Custom QA process for controlling and monitoring PCR
• Real time chart review for improved patient care
• Real time procedure monitoring of employee performance
• Comprehensive reporting for QA program
• Real time risk management reporting, tracking, and event trends
 Chart Summaries
Displays information from patient demographics and chart data to assist in the reimbursement process.
• Exports information to external billing package or 3rd party service to eliminate redundant data entry
• Provides Utilization Reviews to ensure that sufficient documentation has been completed
• Collaborates with supply tracking for inventory demands and costs
If everything goes well in our first phase of this process we should be fully up and running in July. Any questions about this feel free to or visit emsCharts.
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