Information Technology for the Practicing Physician

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xix

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2. Utilizing Technology to Arrange a Physician Visit

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Physician Practice Management: Into the Technology Age

      • Joan M. Kiel

      Pages 3-21

   3. Workflow in Physician Practices

      1. Workflow in the Primary Care Physician’s Office: A Study of Five Practices

         • Jeffry D. Cooper, James D. Copenhaver, Carolyn J. Copenhaver

         Pages 23-34

      2. Workflow Concepts: The Challenges of Managing Healthcare Business Processes

         • William F. Andrew

         Pages 35-37

      3. Workflow and Usability

         • Vinson J. Hudson

         Pages 38-44

   4. Electronic Registration

      1. Interviewing Patients with the Aid of a Computer

         • Allen R. Wenner, Duncan C.H. Belser III

         Pages 46-72

      2. Internet-Based Registration

         • Jonathan Ephraim

         Pages 73-77

3. Utilizing Technology to Enhance a Physician Visit

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 79-79

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   2. Electronic Medical Records

      1. Clinical Documentation That Improves Patient Care (or Tips for Avoiding Potholes in the Road to the Electronic Medical Record)

         • Thomas E. Sullivan

         Pages 82-93

      2. Selecting and Installing an EMR: HPHC’s Successful Implementation

         • Walt Zywiak

         Pages 94-103

      3. The Ambulatory EMR

         • Kathy Patrino, Thomas Landholt, Linda Brackett

         Pages 104-109

      4. EMR Reduces Costs and Protects Revenues

         • Kathy Patrino, Thomas Landholt, Linda Brackett

         Pages 110-112

   3. Clinical Applications with Information Technology

      1. Patient Acceptance of Computerized Progress Note Documentation

         • Janet Huber

         Pages 114-117

      2. Key Characteristics of an Electronic Prescription Writer

         • Robert Keet

         Pages 118-126

   4. Patient Education

      1. Clinical Software for Strengthening the Physician-Patient Relationship

         • J. Peter Geerlofs

         Pages 128-140

      2. Computer-Based Patient Education: The X-PlainTM Experience

         • Moe Ajam

         Pages 141-144

      3. E-Consultation and Education: Medicine Now

         • Richard J. Osborne

         Pages 145-150

      4. The Health Network

         • J. Tod Fetherling

         Pages 151-155

4. Utilizing Technology to Enhance Physician Practice Operations

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 157-157

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As health care moves from an inpatient to an outpatient delivery system, physician practice management will become more complex and accountable. To manage this change, physician practices are increasingly relying on information technology. This book follows both a patient and an employee through a physician visit, highlighting what, where, and how technology is utilized.
The first section, "Utilizing Technology to Arrange a Physician Visit," provides information and examples of technology utilized prior to the patient visit, and includes examples of physicians who utilize email and Web sites to attract patients, electronic scheduling systems to decrease wait time, and registration systems which can verify insurance information. The second section, "Utilizing Technology to Enhance the Physican Visit," demonstrates how technology is utilized when the patient is in treatment and/or follow-up care. Focusing on electronic medical records, electronic referral systems, billing and collection systems, and follow-up patient education and discharge information, it portrays the "future physician office visit." The third section, "Utilizing Technology to Enhance Physician Practice Operations," focuses on the physician practice manager's daily operations and how technology can achieve efficacy. The examples and case studies provided demonstrate a more timely, efficient mode of delivering quality patient care.
This is a "how-to" manual for implementing practice management solutions, and will appeal to Physicians, Practice Managers, Information Technology Specialists, Allied Health Professionals, students and researchers.

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• credentialing
• documentation
• healthcare
• information technology
• patient education
• patient records
• patient registration
• practice finances
• prescription writing

• Department of Health Management Systems John G. Rangos, Sr., School of Health Sciences, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, USA

  Joan M. Kiel

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