McKesson’s Statement

Medisoft Clinical seamlessly combines the Medisoft  practice management system with our award-winning EHR to help you greatly improve patient care and financial performance. Medisoft Clinical features Bright Note Technology a state-of-the-art processing engine that enables physicians to complete an entire chart from a single note using their preferred input method. The practice management solution you’ve come to trust offers a clinical solution that will accelerate and simplify your EHR implementation. Now that’s smart.

McKesson’s EHR is a mature product that’s been on the market for more than 20 years. McKesson purchased Physicians Micro Systems (PMS) around 2007.  With this purchase McKesson acquired Practice Partner EHR, PMS’s premier electronic health records software program. The product’s name remains Practice Partner EHR.  However, McKesson integrated Practice Partner with its own product, Medisoft, to create Medisoft Clinical. This program combines the powerful patient accounting capabilities of Medisoft with Practice Partner’s fully configurable electronic health records system.  

Total Practice Partner, which does not incorporate Medisoft, does offer patient accounting and a hospital-style scheduler.  While the Practice Partner scheduler is powerful, it is unnecessary and overly complicated for the needs of most medical practices.  Likewise, the patient accounting product that comes with Total Practice Partner needs some work to make it a viable competitor to Medisoft, which is the number-one selling patient accounting software on the market today.  The solution to integrate the number one patient accounting software – Medisoft -- and one of the best schedulers on the market -- Office Hours Professional -- with Practice Partner EHR, helped maximize its power for medical practitioners.

Thus Medisoft Clinical was born.  It has the best of everything is one package.  Please note that when we talk about “Medisoft Clinical” we’re talking about the combined functionality of Medisoft PMS and Practice Partner EHR.  However, sometimes you’ll see it advertised under both names. This can create confusion as to which product is best for your needs.  Interestingly, Medisoft Clinical is much less expensive than Total Practice Partner while incorporating superior technology.  In fact, it’s unbelievably low-priced and CERTIFIED.

Here at Maritec, we have been installing electronic medical records for years.  We were satisfied with the EHR product we distributed.  It was stable and fairly easy to understand. When McKesson purchased Practice Partner and asked dealers to evaluate it, we did. After our initial evaluation, we found a product that can be used in a basic EHR environment and can also expand as far as an office wants to go.  Unlike most EHRs on the market, this program has the look and feel of a real chart, to which an office staff can relate.  Most doctors did not sign on to be IT professionals in additional to healthcare professionals. They do need to keep accurate and efficient records, but their primary goal is the wellbeing of the patient and sustaining a profitable business.  Medisoft Clinical offers doctors great flexibility in how they develop and maintain their patient records, including a variety of input methods, ranging from “simple point and click” to use of a stylus and smart pad to voice recognition.

What truly sets Medisoft Clinical apart from other EHR systems is its Bright Note TechnologyTM. This is technology built into the software and designed to move information around the chart from a single entry point.  A single problem or diagnosis need only be entered in one screen, but this information can be transmitted, through the use of Bright Note TechnologyTM, to multiple additional locations in a patient’s chart.  Watch the Bright Note video.  See what a difference it makes.

Patient chart information is also posted to a Chart Summary Screen, making reviewing a chart quick and easy and much faster than trying to put together the information from a paper chart.  Once into a progress note, you need never leave the screen.  You can create a true one-page note, with no need to click multiple areas of the screen to open windows or click tabs so as to piece the note together.  Unlike specialty specific EHRs, this EHR is provider specific.  Specialty specific EHRs force you to keep records based on pre made templates and note structures.  Medisoft Clinical has templates too, but they are very flexible; a provider can specify what he wants on any template.  You can also “ad lib” in any template by typing, hand writing on a tablet PC or voice dictation.  To further enhance the process, Maritec can customize the program for you or teach you how to do it yourself.  We have a retired doctor on staff who adds medical knowledge to the process of customization. After 21 years in the industry, Medisoft Clinical is the most configurable piece of software I have ever seen.  Our experience combined with Medisoft Clinical will provide you a system that suits your needs.  

In the end only the strong will survive.  Small companies will either be bought out by big companies or will not be able to fund the stringent government requirements and go out of business as a result.  McKesson will be one of the survivors.  Medisoft Clinical/Practice Partner will bring order and efficiency to EHR implementation and, as it is CCHIT certified, will also make you eligible for the government incentive rewards as presented in the HITECH Act of 2009.

 

Remember, implementing an EHR is a process.  You won’t see full implementation overnight, in a week or even in a month after you install your system.  It takes knowledgeable support and a willingness to make the move.  It takes a commitment from all staff members and a willingness to change old habits.  Don’t let anyone tell you differently.  If you plan on being in practice for more than 5 years, you will be using an EHR.  Count on it.  The sooner you start, the sooner you will be fully compliant.  Meaningful use rewards begin in 2011.  Start now and avoid the rush.


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