Patient Relationship Management Software For The Physician's Office Released

Nashville, TN - iMedica Corporation demonstrated a new approach to physician practice management at the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) conference in Nashville, Tennessee. iMedica Patient Relationship Manager (PRM) 2005 unites iMedica's award-winning electronic health record system with practice management functions designed by the industry's best, all in one application and one database. iMedica avoids the interface problems inherent in component systems by eliminating the interface entirely. iMedica PRM will be released for general availability in November 2005.

"After talking with hundreds of physicians over the last decade, we realized that practices are frustrated with systems that carve out a few tasks in isolation," explains CEO Michael Nissenbaum. "So we created an entirely new model, analogous to a customer relationship manager (CRM), that helps practices manage the entire patient relationship in one system and one database. Uniting clinical and practice management data lets iMedica Patient Relationship Manager do things that other systems can't, such as showing health maintenance reminders in the schedule and avoiding interface issues between disparate systems. And those are just a few of the many ways iMedica PRM helps physicians streamline their practice workflow and achieve a fast ROI."

Optimized for a Tablet PC, the iMedica program allows doctors to hold the computer like a clipboard, maintaining eye contact with the patient throughout a visit. Physicians have the flexibility to work in whatever way suits them best: type, click, talk or even hand-write and draw with the tablet stylus. With its unique Intelligent Navigation and Adaptive Learning features, iMedica PRM lets doctors chart faster than on paper. In fact, iMedica has posted the fastest time in the TEPR Documentation Challenge -- which clocks real physicians charting a Level 4 visit using different EHRs -- every year since 2002. And just as important, the resulting visit note was determined to be accurate and complete.

Built into iMedica PRM is off-site emergency back-up through iMedica.NET, with data management that is not only secure, but is so innovative in its design that it was awarded a U.S. Patent in 2005. iMedica.NET also provides doctors with "Anytime, Anywhere Access" over a secure Internet connection.

SOURCE: iMedica