Electronic Medical Records (EMR) for a pediatrics practices has its own set of software needs for billing and for common pediatric complaints. Customized pediatrics templates and pediatrician-specific specific EMR / EHR software will save your practice time and money because it will come ready with pediatrics-specific charts and interfaces to databases necessary for a pediatric practice.
Pediatric Software Solutions to look for:
EMR / EHR solutions designed specifically for Pediatricians often include features not found in other more generic medical records packages. These features may include many of the following:
- Unique patient identifier methodology, which allows entire families to be indexed together.
- The ability to deal with various family structures, including adoption, step-children, foster care and child abuse, etc.
- Pediatrics specific ICD and CPT codes available and easy to manipulate
- Medical billing software specifics geared toward a pediatrician’s practice
- Growth charts, allowing for graphical representation of a child’s growth curve, in a dynamic fashion.
- Vaccination tracking
- Immunization tracking.
- Strep-throat and ear infection tracking software
- Age based normal findings, such as for Vital Signs and other laboratory tests.
- Time of birth as well as date of birth, newborn statistics maintenance, first days of life events tracking
- Developmental milestone charts 0 – 3 years.
- Medication Prescription software offering age and weight based dosing assistance
- Allergic reaction tracking to food, antibiotics, etc.
- School and camp form letters
- E & M Coding for Pediatricians
- Pediatric Patient Portal
The more customized your EMR software is to the needs of a Pediatric Practice, the less customization, training, and re-training for your staff you will have to do once your medical software is in place. It will also ease the migration issues between your current hard copy or stand-alone computer system and an integrated EMR and medical billing software.
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