Practice Partner® Patient Records is an award-winning electronic medical record system that provides a host of innovative tools to improve both office and clinical efficiency while helping to improve quality of care. Our electronic medical record software allows practices to replace their paper charts with a comprehensive feature set utilized nationwide by medical offices of all sizes and specialties.

Features

• Choice of data entry methods
• Single-screen progress note entry saves clicks and eliminates “jumping around”
• Prescription writing, faxing and drug interaction/allergy checking
• Built-in protocols and reminders (including health maintenance)
• Automatically insert chart data into the note (e.g., recent lab results, medications, problem lists, overdue health maintenance items, and more)

Benefits

• Improves documentation quality (legible, organized, complete)
• Facilitates better patient communication
• Accommodates different physician styles through flexible progress note templates
• Improves medication management
• Enhances efficiency of signing of charts

Practice Partner Release 9.3 is a CCHIT CertifiedSM product for CCHIT Ambulatory EHR 2008 and is additionally certified for Child Health.

Practice Partner Medical Billing is a comprehensive practice management tool and powerful medical billing software that improves the financial health of physician practices. It comprises a full set of features designed to simplify complex business requirements. Its integration with Practice Partner Patient Records and Practice Partner Appointment Scheduler supports information sharing that creates a complete picture of patient encounters and links care to reimbursement and productivity.

Complex healthcare billing requirements demand complex practice management billing solutions — but complex doesn’t have to mean complicated. Behind an intuitive human interface is all the sophisticated functionality you need for straightforward financial management. Practice Partner Medical Billing software simplifies your practice with:

• A powerful Code Wizard that flags audit-triggering inaccuracies and disadvantageous and inconsistent coding
  
  
• Streamlined data entry with single-screen posting of charges, payments and adjustments
  
  
• Electronic encounter forms that allow you to enter charges at the point of care
  
  
• A ledger screen that provides a complete, up-to-date record of patient account activity
  
  
• Demographic screens with complete patient data, searchable by name, ID, social security number or insurance ID
  
  
• Electronic claims and electronic remittance for sending and posting claims

The power to customize processes

State and regional requirements, coupled with specific practice management needs make your environment unique. Practice Partner Medical Billing software allows you to customize:

• Formulas and fee schedules to accommodate insurance carriers’ specialized payment policies, streamlining data entry and minimizing error
  
  
• Screens for collecting additional data and create forms and reports
  
  
• Electronic and paper forms, freeing up storage and supporting your practice’s specific needs
  
  
• Security to tightly control and protect vital information

The power to improve cash flow

Day-to-day collections and cash flow are the lifeblood of your practice. Practice Partner Medical Billing helps you monitor the financial pulse with:

• Electronic claims processing that speeds reimbursement with direct transmission of bills and pre-submission error checking
  
  
• Estimation of benefits features that calculate patients’ balances at the time of visit
  
  
• Delinquent account reports that improve collections by tracking overdue accounts, open claims and insurance receivables
  
  
• An insurance payment comparative report that pinpoints which carriers are underpaying to maximize reimbursement

The power to manage managed care

In a managed care environment, knowing where your practice stands in terms of billing and contract performance is critical to successful financial performance. With Practice Partner Medical Billing, you can:

• Track the value of capitated services without inflating A/R
  
  
• Monitor contract success with managed care reports
  
  
• Calculate co-pays automatically
  
  
• Track coverage via an eligibility systems linked to carriers’ demographics and eligibility data

Practice Partner Release 9.2.1 is a CCHIT CertifiedSM product for CCHIT Ambulatory EHR 2007.

The Practice Partner Appointment Scheduler, a robust practice management software application, provides a powerful solution to paper-based scheduling systems. With the "intelligent search" function, finding and scheduling single or multiple appointments can be done with the click of a button. With the ability to schedule from a single central screen, this practice management software is ideal for practices of any size.

Features

• Flexible system and fully scalable design
  
  
• Easy to use, intuitive interface
  
  
• Powerful practice management scheduling options and capabilities
  
  
• Comprehensive reporting tools

Benefits

• Allows staff to make patient appointments quickly and more completely
  
  
• Reduces stress, mistakes and confusion among staff with use of the multi-user system
  
  
• Improves service to patients with easy access to patient information, appointment history and patient reminders
  
  
• Allows staff to schedule high volume of appointments while still maintaining control of their day

Practice Partner Release 9.2.1 is a CCHIT CertifiedSM product for CCHIT Ambulatory EHR 2007.

Today’s cost conscious yet quality insistent healthcare environment demands that your practice be highly productive yet patient-focused. McKesson’s Practice Partner® Appointment Scheduler simplifies and speeds scheduling to improve the productivity of you practice while enhancing the satisfaction of its patients, as well as its staff. Fully scaleable, the system’s two versions—Appointment Scheduler and Appointment Scheduler Enterprise—combine the sophisticated scheduling and management tools your practice needs in a cost-effective package it can afford. Integrate Practice Partner Appointment Scheduler with Practice Partner Patient Records and Practice Partner Medical Billing, and you have the functional and informational infrastructure for successful practice.

The power to optimize resources

Scheduling can make or break a practice. Practice Partner Appointment Scheduler works the way your practice works, for scheduling that is easy, fast and accurate. A true multi-user system, it allows staff to do more with less—less time, less stress and less error. Practice Partner Appointment Scheduler speeds the flow of your practice with:

• Simultaneous scheduling of up to 10 different providers--with no double booking
  
  
• Automatic scheduling by user-defined type-of-visit codes
  
  
• Sequential visit scheduling by patient-selected criteria (e.g., day and time)
  
  
• Automatic chart requests at appointment scheduling
  
  

The power to boost productivity

Practice Partner Appointment Scheduler is highly customizable, which allows clinicians to use the schedule that makes the most sense for them. It also is highly automated to minimize the risk of human error. The result—less time wasted, more time spent with patients. Practice Partner Appointment Scheduler enhances productivity with:

• Variable length appointments
  
  
• Support for wave (flow) scheduling
  
  
• Reserve slots for drop-ins, specific procedures or exams
  
  
• User-defined type-of-visit codes that ensure appropriate time allocation
  
  
• Easy access to patient charts in Practice Partner Patient Records

The power to enhance patient satisfaction

Usually, the scheduling process is a patient’s first impression of your practice. Practice Partner Appointment Scheduler helps you make positive first and ongoing impressions by giving staff easy access to patient information, appointment history and patient reminders. It furthers patient satisfaction with:

• Rapid appointment look-up by whatever information the patient has. Name, ID, telephone number or social security number return a complete appointment overview, past and future.
  
  
• A wide variety of search options that make finding appointments easier and faster. For visual/manual searches, options include daily, two-day, weekly, monthly and provider criteria. Automatic search criteria include next available, date range, time of day, day of week, appointment length, appointment type and provider preference.
  
  
• Wait listing
  
  
• Automatic generation of patient instructions based on procedure/exam scheduling as well as a convenient printout of patients’ complete appointment schedules
  
  

The power to know where you stand

When resources are stretched, maximizing them is critical. Practice Partner Appointment Scheduler gives you sophisticated reports that help you analyze and understand what’s going on in your practice, so you can manage it more efficiently. Practice Partner Appointment Scheduler provides a host of valuable reports, including:

• Productivity analysis that compares time scheduled with time used
  
  
• No-show, canceled and unfilled appointments
  
  
• Daily, monthly or year-to-date by provider or entire practice
  
  
• Complete schedule forecast
  
  
• Primary provider notification
  
  
• Admission, discharges and average lengths of stay
  
  
• Missed appointments (with an option for mailers)
  
  

For More Information

For more information about Practice Partner Appointment Scheduling, contact your McKesson account executive or call McKesson at 800-981-8601.

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