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The McKesson EMR Software Practice Point Chart offers specialty-specific content for 17 medical specialties. Includes comprehensive and accurate medical content, custom entry dialogs and anatomical images appropriate to your field of medicine.Frequently Asked Questions
How is McKesson's PracticePoint Chart Organized?
How easy is PracticePoint Chart easy to learn and use?
Tell me more about charting within PracticePoint Chart
How does PracticePoint Chart utilize graphics and anatomical diagrams?
What coding features does PracticePoint Chart have?
How does PracticePoint Chart's design promote efficient workflow?
Is PracticePoint Chart secure?
How is PracticePoint Chart customized for my specialty?
Is PracticePoint Chart HIPAA certified?
Answers To Your FAQ
How is PracticePoint Chart organized?
PracticePoint Chart utilizes accessible and organized patient folders:
- Allergies
- Past Medical History
- Treatments/Diagnoses
- Multimedia links to images, etc.
- Alerts for the patient
- Remarks about the patient
- Patient Overview and Patient Summary
Common/Topic/All Design makes it easy to add information quickly
Common - This tab is user-definable. For Allergies, you are able to show only the allergies that you use frequently to make your list more manageable.
Topic - The Topic tab is simply a categorized tree diagram that allows you to pick your specific history items from the category headings.
All- Type in the first few letters of the item that you're looking for, and the "All" tab will search the database for the history item that matches your description.
Patient Monitor.
- See more of your patients information on one screen with custom data panels
- Add information to the patient's file from the front screen
- Create custom data collection screens that can be used to pre populate new notes
Practice View.
Access information across all of your patients from a separate screen.
- Alerts
- Incomplete Notes
- Messages
- To-do's
- Preventive Medicine
- Notes without bills
Document Management.
- Bring scanned documents or digital pictures into the PracticePoint Chart database
- Create a truly paperless office
How easy is PracticePoint Chart to Learn and Use?
PracticePoint Chart utilizes accessible and organized patient folders:
- Allergies
- Past Medical History
- Treatments/Diagnoses
- Multimedia links to images, etc.
- Alerts for the patient
- Remarks about the patient
- Patient Overview and Patient Summary
Common/Topic/All Design makes it easy to add information quickly
Common - This tab is user-definable. For Allergies, you are able to show only the allergies that you use frequently to make your list more manageable.
Topic - The Topic tab is simply a categorized tree diagram that allows you to pick your specific history items from the category headings.
All- Type in the first few letters of the item that you're looking for, and the "All" tab will search the database for the history item that matches your description.
Patient Monitor.
- See more of your patients information on one screen with custom data panels
- Add information to the patient's file from the front screen
- Create custom data collection screens that can be used to pre populate new notes
Practice View.
Access information across all of your patients from a separate screen.
- Alerts
- Incomplete Notes
- Messages
- To-do's
- Preventive Medicine
- Notes without bills
Document Management.
- Bring scanned documents or digital pictures into the PracticePoint Chart database
- Create a truly paperless office
Tell Me More About Charting in PracticePoint Chart
- Single screen "What you see is what you get" template - no need to move to a completely different screen to enter subjective, objective assessment and plan
- Default phrasing makes it possible to chart by exception
- Templates are completely flexible - you can tweak the provided templates for the work in your practice
- Easy to document multiple chief complaints
- Color coding for viewing at a glance
- Black Text - This is simply text which has been hard-coded into the template.
- Blue Text - This is a default value for a pop-up window.
- Red Text - This is an optional pop-up window that can be clicked if needed.
- Green Text - This signifies that the user has activated the dialog and made a change.
- New Note from an Old Note
- Note on Hold
- Macros pull demographic or other stored information directly into the note
- Prescription objects can be created and embedded in templates for routine encounters, making it even easier to create prescriptions.
How Does PracticePoint Chart utilize graphics and anatomical diagrams?
- Draw on anatomical diagrams or digital pictures and add them to the body of the note
- Graphic objects allow you to quickly document the anatomical location of the condition
- Hot Spot Editor utility allows you to add custom images to the program for use in graphic objects
What coding features does PracticePoint Chart have?
- ICD-9 and CPT codes license from the AMA
- E&M Wizard suggests appropriate codes based on the information documented
- Custom History of Present Illness based on a Chief Complaint with E&M credit
How does PracticePoint Chart's design promote efficient workflow?
- Ability to design workflow protocols, enabling the software to work around existing workflows - not forcing your practice to create new ones
- Enhanced Data Repopulation for optimal efficiency
- Pull medical history from the patient's record
- Pull object data from a previous note
- Pull object data that has been added to the patient's record without a note
- Daily Patient List - allows the physician to quickly pull up the patient from the daily list without having to search the entire patient list
- Template Wizard makes it simple to create custom templates for your practice
- Integrated Office Tasks
- Physician Referral Letters - In only 4 mouse-clicks you can create a professional letter to refer a patient, or thank another physician for their kind referral. The letter includes either the full patient note, or just the impression and plan sections for their reference.
- Patient Instructions - Customized Patient Instructions can be printed and sent home with the patient regarding their care.
- Patient Letters - Similar to a referral letter, the patient letter is simply a letter template that can be printed and sent to your client.
- Physicians Orders - When an order has been documented in the note, a worksheet can be printed to show what the physician has ordered.
- Prescriptions - Create a script right from the program using the extensive medical library. The information for the script is also included at the bottom of the patient's note, and in the patient's medications folder for easy and consistent reference.
- Custom script layouts
- Multiple scripts per page
- Drug Interaction Module available
- SuperBill Statements - The Billing Wizard pulls the billing codes from the dialogs used in the exam documentation. Simply associate the Diagnoses with the appropriate Treatments, and print the SuperBill Statement. Some of the billing interfaces allow a direct transfer of this information to their program
What are the primary security features of PracticePoint Chart?
- One keystroke to log out of the program
- One keystroke to remove all patient data from the screen (without logging out)
- Certified for HIPAA
- Reliable SQL database Backup and restore functionality
- Access based logins - 3 levels of accessibility based on the user level
- Custom Security Add-on Module
- Restrict individual users or groups from program features, or patient accessibility
Is PracticePoint Chart HIPAA certified?
- Yes, PracticePoint Chart is certified for HIPAA regulations by the HIPAA Academy
- Audit trails to denote what changes have been made to patient records, and by whom
- Program access based on user license levels
- Password security
- Automatic program logout after a period of inactivity
How is PracticePoint Chart customized for my specialty?
- PracticePoint Chart offers customized content for many medical specialties. Specialty-specific content increases the applicability of features to the unique needs of your specialty. For more specific details on specialty-specific content, please see a list of medical specialties with customized content.