Imagine having 80% of benefit of an EMR at 20% of the cost.
Furthermore, imagine that this benefit comes without the physicians changing the way they chart.
Sound too good to be true? It's not.
According to a 2005 survey of 3,300 practices conducted by the Medical Group Management
Association, the average implementation cost of an EMR is $32,606 per physician and the
maintenance cost per physician per month is $1,177. When you factor in the cost of
physician training and reduced staff productivity, the EMR becomes difficult to cost
justify for most practices.
By comparison, POWERchart's initial implementation cost
is a fraction of the cost of an EMR and the physicians will be using it and be
fully productive practically from the start.
POWERchart uses tablet PC's to capture digital ink on virtual paper. Load your
own forms into POWERchart and write on them just as you would with a ballpoint pen
and real paper. When done, save the document into IMPOWER's document repository
with the tap of the pen. POWERchart can also use the tablet PC's built-in
microphone to record your dictation and make it part of the patient's chart.
POWERchart documents can be signed and sealed using your regular signature and
sophisticated computer algorithms to ensure they have not been modified. These
signatures are known as non-repudiated, meaning they cannot be rejected as non-binding.
When you want to take charts home for review, use POWERchart's Briefcase feature
to export a chart from the central repository to the tablet for offline access.
Bring the tablet home or simply e-mail the Adobe Acrobat PDF file that is created.
When a regular (non-POWERchart) IMPOWER user wants you to review a document (for
example a lab report), the user can electronically send it to you and it will
appear in a special area within POWERchart where you can see all documents pending
review and sign them.
Recognizing that pulling charts is a time-consuming process, even when the charts
are digital, POWERchart can pull them automatically by using one of your appointment
schedule reports. Each physician's tablet will then be populated with a list of his or
her patients for the day.
