Tablet PCs: 'Test Drive' Program Puts Tablet PCs Loaded With iMedica's Patient Relationship Manager Into Physician's Hands
iMedica Corporation, a leading developer of healthcare software solutions for physician practices, announced recently a new program that equips physicians with a tablet PC loaded with iMedica's Patient Relationship Manager (PRM), a single-application Electronic Health Record (EHR) and Practice Management (PM) solution, for them to test for a week.
iMedica's "Take a Tablet" program allows physicians to bypass the often costly, time-consuming guessing game of evaluating EHR and PM systems. The program is simple - once a physician practice is pre-qualified, an iMedica representative personally delivers a tablet PC and then trains the physician to use the iMedica PRM, which is already installed on the tablet PC. The physician can evaluate iMedica PRM for a week.
"Physicians need EHR/PM solutions that fit seamlessly into their practices' workflow and that won't slow them down," says Michael Nissenbaum, iMedica's President and CEO. "They want to determine what an EHR/PM solution can actually do for a practice. This process requires more than just listening to a boilerplate sales presentation - it demands a physician test drive."
Interest in EHR implementation has grown in response to recent announcements that EHRs can have a significant positive impact on outcomes and costs in chronic disease management, according to the Rogosin Institute, a not-for-profit treatment and research institute affiliated with New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical College. Such data helps make good on the core EHR promise to enhance care, reduce costs and improve patient care.
Physicians who choose to participate in iMedica's one-week test-drive have the opportunity to try out typical practice tasks such as patient charting, prescription refills, documentation of chief complaints, referrals tracking, task and message management, scheduling, billing and collections.
"We did a lot of research to narrow down our choices - we even accessed one company's web-based portal - but it wasn't until we held in our hands the tablet PC loaded with the iMedica application and tested it like it would be used in our practice that we realized the iMedica PRM was head-and-shoulders above the others," said Louis Marino, M.D., of Buckingham Family Practice in Pennsylvania. "After we used the tablet, experienced the advantage of its 'chief complaint-driven' system, and saw how easy it was to customize, we decided to go with iMedica."
iMedica also meets the criteria of improved portability and accessibility by allowing physicians to chart from any location - with or without Internet access - and by allowing for remote access and disaster recovery.
For more information on iMedica, call 866-960-6890 or visit http://www.imedica.com.
About iMedica Corporation
Founded in 1998, iMedica is an innovator in the development of electronic health records and practice management solutions for physician practices. Based on its comprehensive study of physician practice workflow and extensive consultations with practicing physicians, iMedica has developed Patient Relationship Manager(TM) (PRM), a single-application EHR and PM solution that utilizes Microsoft's latest .NET technology. PRM's unique, template-free design adapts to a physician's workflow and sets the benchmark for ease of use and deployment, speed and portability. iMedica's replication technology enables backup, recovery and accessibility, as well as customization and solution management with minimal IT staff intervention. For more information, call 866-960-6890 or visit http://www.imedica.com.
SOURCE: iMedica Corporation