We have received a warm response to eCalcs, Galen’s latest bolt on for the Allscripts Enterprise EHR.
We have received a lot of compliments along the way – integrated health calculators are much needed, that Galen put out a thoughtfully crafted product, and even that we finally listened a built this type of add-on tool that makes providers happy. That last one is my favorite – it’s a tough time for providers with the rush to Meaningful Use and now to ICD-10, many feel that they are taking on more work with lower results. If we can provide a “cool tool” that makes life easier, I couldn’t be happier.
What we have also received are plenty of questions about how it works. You can cite the scores into a Note? How are the scores stored in EHR – as Results? Questions like those.
This How To video will help answer those questions. It’s just under three minutes long and covers the major functionality within eCalcs and its integration with the EHR.
Our marketing firm also sent over a concise and rather visually pleasing brochure for eCalcs. Thanks guys!
For years, doctors have been using tools like the Framingham Risk Calculator to estimate risk for a number of different disease states – like cardiovascular disease, diabetes and breast cancer. These calculators use information commonly found in the patient’s chart like vital signs, lab values and age. The risk scores are increasingly being typed back into the chart.
eCalcs are . . .
Integrated into the EHR – with one click of a button you are brought to a host of the most common health calculators, including the Framingham Risk Calculators.
Patient Specific – pulling in the relevant data from the current patient’s chart.
Documented back into the EHR – the risk scores can be added back into the patient’s chart with a single click.
For a full product overview, and a link to the eCalcs brochure, visit the eCalcs page on our wiki.
In this demo, we will present Allscripts Enterprise EHR and RelayHealth Portal integration capability. This solution facilitates seamless integration between the two applications, offering single sign-on, messaging between provider and patient,and patient online indicator functionality.
Contact us today so your organization can realize the compelling benefits of Enterprise EHR RelayHealth Portal integration.
We recently had the opportunity to assist clients in designing and deploying interfaces to automatically import charges into Allscripts Enterprise PM from not only Allscripts Enterprise EHR, but also other vendor EHRs including Mosaic and eCW. At one particular client, AEPM served as the aggregator for all charges generated in the enterprise. In addition to the inbound charge interface, an inbound demographic interface was required to ensure that the patient exists before trying to interface and import charges for them. Thus with each generated charge in vendor systems, a HL7 ADT registration message was sent immediately preceding the HL7 DFT charge message.
When importing registrations and charges into AEPM, several matching and translation considerations need to be made. In terms of inbound registration, the following list a subset of “linking” items and their respective options for match:
Patient
Name/date of birth
SSN
MRN
Policy
Policy Reference Number
Subscriber Certificate Info
PCP
Default value
Cross Reference Link
Direct Map (Abbreviation)
Carrier (Insurance)
CarrierID
Default Carrier
Cross-Reference Link *Note: a cross-reference link can be likened to a translation table – simply translating an input (vendor insurance code for instance) to a corresponding output (AEPM carrier abbreviation)
Additionally, import options exist including the following subset:
Auto-Import
This function will allow for the automatic import of demographics which do not have any data errors or missing cross reference links. Only those patients which pass all of the validations will be auto registered.
Allow Update of existing Demographics?
Answer Yes – if you wish to allow existing demographic information for patients to be changed to match the data that was imported.
Default to update existing Demographics?
Answer Yes – if you will be updating information for all existing patients.
Answer No – if you wish to update patients one at a time or if you do not wish to import all of the patients included in the file.
Lastly, we can selectively block certain fields from importing. This will facilitate certain fields in AEPM to be maintained manually instead of receiving update when importing data. An example of this would be for indicating the Patient Student Status, or Employment Status, which may be required for billing purposes.
The following demonstration illustrates the process for importing interfaced charges and demographics into AEPM:
Many organizations utilizing Allscripts Enterprise EHR are unaware that image integration capability exists, and those that do figure it is too costly to implement.
In this demo, we will present Allscripts Imagelink capability. Imagelink is an Allscripts add-on that can be used to integrate outside systems with Allscripts Enterprise EHR.
More specifically, Imagelink provides organizations access to images and other documents associated with a result from a variety of different systems that have a web-based image viewer -from within the EHR.
With this solution, users of the EHR are presented with the clinical data they need to interpret, comment on, review or validate a particular result – without leaving the EHR application.
Just a few of the vendors we have experience in integrating to the Enterprise EHR via Imagelink include (but not limited to):
NovaRad
Stryker
SCImage
GE
Be sure to look out for one of our upcoming free webcasts covering Imagelink configuration within the AE-EHR and implementation of corresponding result interface dependencies.
Contact us today to see if your organization can realize the compelling benefits of Enterprise EHR Imagelink integration.
Integrating other web applications into the EHR is a dream for many.
Here, we take the risk calculator built based on the Framingham Heart Study, and integrate it into the Allscripts Enterprise EHR. With the integration from Galen, the EHR sends the required fields into the Framingham Risk Calculator, like patient age, blood pressure and cholesterol, reducing the data entry and number of clicks for the clinician.
Now’s it’s as simple to calculate the patient’s risk of heart attack, as it is to view their chart, all while in the EHR.
As we mention in the video, the Framingham Risk Calculator is just one example of integrating a website or web application into the EHR.
Galen has worked with groups on many types of EHR to web application integration – what would you add to the EHR, if you could?
