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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