Amicore Clinical Management Internal Medicine

Each day, internal-medicine physicians work to deliver a better patient experience and improve outcomes – and at the same time achieve appropriate financial returns.  Generally, most internists care for patient populations that skew toward older adults.  That results in significant numbers of chronically ill patients with multiple conditions.  That leads to complex disease-management, prescription- interaction, and financial-reimbursement challenges.

Amicore provides a unique and cost-effective solution for scheduling, billing, and electronic medical records management that automates the end-to-end patient encounter from appointment scheduling to documenting patient encounters to patient billing and reimbursement.  No other solution offers such a comprehensive range of features in a single package:

• Comprehensive Clinical Content – Amicore helps throughout the care process with a broad foundation of clinical guidelines for a wide variety of patients, symptoms, and illnesses.  
  
• Structured Protocols – Amicore gives you ready-to-use guidelines and disease protocols – and you can customize them to suit your practice.
  
• Multiple-Symptoms Support - Amicore lets you explore multiple symptoms in a single clinical encounter.  
  
• Patient History – Access unified views of a patient’s history on-screen – including prior visits, prior diagnoses, and previous test results from laboratory, radiology or other areas.  Imports previous patient history including past medical, surgical, social, etc.  
  
• Lab Orders and Results Management – Amicore is fully integrated with lab vendors such as Quest and LabCorp and lets you issue electronic orders for lab tests and view subsequent results on screen.
  
• Streamlined Referrals – Simplify your patient referrals to specialists.
  
• Integrated Prescriptions – Create and send electronic (or fax) prescriptions directly to the patient’s pharmacy – complete with comprehensive drug-interaction screening.
  
• Health-Maintenance Reminders – Proactively remind your patients to forestall or minimize potential health threats.  Amicore uses HEDIS and other best-practice guidelines.
  
• Document in Your Style – Use advanced features for voice recognition and handwriting recognition – or more conventional tapping, clicking, and typing.  Integrated clinical guidelines offer a structured vocabulary that converts a few menu clicks into plain-English patient notes.
  
• Organized Patient Management – Enter patient data once for use in every relevant area of the system. You get a complete audit trail of all patient authorizations (for HIPAA compliance) as well as all appointments, referrals, and billing notices.
  
• Task Management –Document and assign workload, screen tasks based on functional needs, and set priorities and due dates to manage work queues.
  
• HIPAA-Compliant Security – Amicore Integrated Management supports role-based and user-based authorized access to secure transactions, operations, and Protected Health Information (PHI).  
  
• Simple Operation – Amicore’s interface is a natural, unobtrusive extension of how you practice medicine.  It’s easy-to-learn and quick to use: dictate, tap, type, or handwrite – it’s your choice. 
  
• Multiple-Complaint Visits – Patients present multiple – but clinically distinct -- complaints.  You need to manage multiple treatment plans, follow multiple conditions over the long-term, and deliver/document multiple HEDIS health-maintenance reminders.
  
• Getting The Appropriate Reimbursements – You’re only paid for what you document – an especially difficult challenge with Medicare patients.  
  
• Managing Multiple Medications – With older patients often taking 10-15 simultaneous medications, you need careful screening of drug-to-drug, drug-to-patient, and drug-to-disease interactions.
  
• HEDIS Compliance and HMRs – Make sure you’re following up and adhering to all regimens and protocols for multiple diseases. This is a critical need for internists.
  
• Billing Time and Expense – Internists have traditionally needed an expensive and talented billing staff to properly code and submit bills.  That billing cycle can often delay receivables by weeks.