Benefits for your practice

Information technology positively impacts both the clinical and administrative aspects of any practice. It can lower costs, increase revenue, and improve the efficiency of operations. At the same time it takes the level of healthcare delivery to new heights by sensibly using clinical information captured in PMO whilst carrying out daily tasks.

The decision to switch to a computerised environment can pose challenges, however there are few other investments that offer a greater return.

Improved efficiency

• Patient recalls and other reminders are simple and effective
• Information is available to more than one user at a time
• Fast repeat scrips
• Fast letter and form generation
• Eliminate the costs of folder pulls, faxing and fetching
• See the information from remote locations such as in theatre, from the ward or elsewhere
• Reduce printing, copying, paper, postage and handling expenses
• Reduce dictation volume and transcribing costs
• Improve the natural workflow between doctors, nurses and assistants
• Automate administrative and clinical reporting
• Save phone time by automation of routine patient communications
• Secure, reliable, confidential and robust.

Enhanced quality of service

• Immediate access to your patients clinical notes
• Quickly see an overview of your patient’s problems by rapid viewing of diagnoses, medications, recent notes etc.
• Information is always legible.
• Information is always in chronological order.
• Avoid prescription errors
• Improved comprehensiveness and structure of documentation
• Improve coding look-up and classification accuracy
• Get access to fact-based clinical decision support tools
• Easy access to electronic information resources (internal/external)
• Monitor and track abnormal results and ensure that appropriate follow-up occurs
• Coordinate care episodes between many healthcare professionals at one or many clinics

Historically, healthcare providers have documented and delivered care using paper records. However, paper records have significant disadvantages:

• Availability to only one person at a time
• Impossible to access from other places
• Space and clutter
• Frequent illegibility
• Patient information stored on paper cannot include or activate clinical decision support tools.
• Almost impossible to generate immediate statistics for knowledge, monitoring and planning.
• Security, integrity and confidentiality.

Generally delivering and managing healthcare on paper, risks errors and quality of healthcare delivery.