What types of enterprises is Aquifer.OE/RR for?
Aquifer offers a broad feature range and has enormous implementational
flexibility. It was designed to be aware of and intelligently interface with
other healthcare software. Thus, Aquifer can reside at the hub of your
enterprise, but is just as comfortable sitting at the periphery providing a
single niche service.
Our prime target market is the vertically integrated community healthcare
enterprise that manages hospitals, outpatient physician's clinics, and
ancillary diagnostic centers (e.g. for lab and radiology) or wants to provide
outreach services to independent clinics, and perhaps wants to make
information (on appointments, test results, general information) available to
their patients via a web portal. Of course, we can also serve an
enterprise that is a subset of this, such as a physician practice, or a lab that wants to provide outreach
services. Aquifer also makes an excellent inpatient order entry/result
reporting system, with advanced computerized physician order entry (CPOE)
features.
Key Features
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Enterprise wide patient registration and master
patient indexing
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A wide variety of patient demographic and
financial information can be entered |
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Inpatient, outpatient, and emergency visit
registration |
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Can handle
miscellaneous information in any MIME format, including word
processed documents (e.g. from Microsoft Word), pictures, audio, and video |
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Keeps an enterprise-wide master patient index
which can provide a single point of access |
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Integrates patients from all interfaced systems with rule based
patient and visit merging avoids redundant and disjointed records |
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Keeps track of originating ID's from all interfaced external systems
to allow easy concurrent communications with a large number of systems |
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Enterprise wide, multi-ancillary order entry
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Orders from different ancillaries, including laboratory, radiology and
pharmacy, can be placed from within a unified order entry form. |
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Interfaces
via HL7 with a wide variety of third party systems |
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Lists of commonly ordered services for each ancillary and practitioner
are displayed in the order entry form to facilitate quick ordering.
These lists can optionally be automatically based on actual order
frequencies. |
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Rules can be defined which automatically route orders to the desired
servicing location based on a wide variety of factor |
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Rules-based medical necessity checking |
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Drug interaction checking |
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Order sets, including physician specific order sets |
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Complex recurring orders |
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Enterprise wide, multi-ancillary result reporting
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Single service result reports and cumulative reports
over time |
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Formal, chartable reports can be defined with Crystal Reports |
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High quality graphing |
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Customizable result notifications via e-mail and pager |
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Can
store results in any MIME format, including word processed
documents (e.g. from Microsoft Word), pictures, audio, and video |
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HIPAA compliant
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Designed from the ground up with HIPAA compliance in mind |
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All users require authentication through individual ID's and passwords |
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Each user is given a specific authorization profile and role which
defines what information is presented, what departments and patients
they have access to, and what actions are available to them |
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All transactions and user activity are audited in an independent audit
trail |
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Server access is authenticated with digital certificates and secured behind
a firewall and communications over the Internet are secured with 128 bit SSL encryption. |
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Fully
and seamlessly integrates with all applications based on the
Aquifer framework, including Aquifer.EMR (electronic
medical record) |
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Charge Capture
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Charges can be captured at one of a variety of
events |
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Multiple charge master tables can be utilized for different situations |
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Charge items can be defined for particular situations, like for a
particular order priority or in a particular time period |
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Rules can be defined to govern particular charges,
such as limiting the number of times a charge can be generated on a
patient in a given period |
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Communicates with patient accounting software via HL7 |
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Clinical, Management & Executive Reporting
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a powerful built in reporting engine allows
complex ad-hoc reports, where patient populations can be defined from
rules and compared against other populations or over time. A multitude
of variables, including those related patient clinicals, patient care,
medications, diagnoses, allergies, mortality, and financial information |
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Customized formal reports can be developed with
Crystal Reports |
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Secure physician portal
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Physicians can access their patient's information from anywhere with
an Internet connection |
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The portal can be privately branded and supplemented with information
managed by the site |
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Secure patient-access portal
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Patients can access their appointments, personal information, clinical
information, and all of their results with an Internet connection |
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Information is automatically hyperlinked to corresponding public
resources like LabTestsOnline.org and MEDLINEplus so they can educate
themselves and ask their doctor informed questions |
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The patient's doctor can be privately and securely e-mailed |
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The portal can be privately branded and supplemented with information
managed by the site |
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