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news.Greenway Medical Technologies, a provider of integrated, single-database electronic health record (EHR), practice management and interoperability solution PrimeSuite, has received US patent for its template builder module used to create custom clinical templates that can be integrated with financial and administrative workflows.
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The USPTO recognised the template creation features that primary care and specialty practices can build upon and streamline to meet specific provider and practice needs.
Greenway said that the functionality makes use of existing patient history and data to merge with diagnosis and examination checklist templates to standardise point-of-care patient encounters and coordinate care plans as well as preventive medicine, all of which is retained in the patient’s electronic chart and can be accessed for quality reporting analysis. Complaint and diagnosis data is merged with E&M, ICD and CPT codes to streamline billing functions.
Greenway added that its PrimeSuite EHR is embedded with thousands of available templates, including those for referrals, orders tracking, consultations and correspondence aligned with primary care or specialty clinical templates, enhanced by the ability for practices to expand and tailor their capabilities as well as workflow.
Jim Ingram, chief medical officer of Greenway, said: “The template branching patent reveals a process of using web browser, HTML and XML functionality to allow clinicians to develop clinical templates in a quick, logical format to fit their clinical environment.
“The ease of modification, as well as to build from scratch, can be done by the clinician, eliminating the dependence or cost of relying on third-party developers.”
Steve Schiebel, medical director of totem lake practice at Pediatric Associates, said: “We recognised the need for digital templates stored in a central location, so we took the available content library templates and analysed our patient encounters to create a series of custom templates. We found this was the best way to match our workflows and offered an ease of use.”
Tee Green, president and CEO of Greenway, said: “We are very pleased that our custom templating ability is providing the means for improved healthcare outcomes through enhanced diagnosis and care plan development, which in turn leads to enhanced quality reporting that is increasingly needed for reimbursement models.”