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Mobile Healthcare Blog | “Bolt-On” Apps Provide Significant Benefits and ROI

July 30th, 2004 | | Posted in General News |

IQMAX provides healthcare professionals with needed mobility with Intelligent Enterprise Ready Mobile software. The same PDA that helps physicians manage their everyday activities such as address books and calendars can now help them manage their professional daily workflow anytime, anyplace, anywhere.

David Harris, a managing partner for PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP, recently discussed the add-on value and high ROI of mobile charge capture and clinical documentation at the recent HFMA ANI 2004 conference in Nashville.

While the quality and timely care of the patient is paramount, the financial health of the physician's practice and healthcare institution can significantly impact the overall level of care provided. Properly documented and coded patient encounters, reduction in outstanding accounts receivable days, and an improvement in the overall revenue cycle management process are just a few of the challenges facing practice and other financial managers.

With a focus on capturing lost revenues, the IQMax's mobile IQCharge™ solution provides a simple approach to documenting and capturing charges at the time of patient encounter. This technology provides a fast, accurate and intuitive approach to capturing charges in the inpatient and outpatient settings. By providing a simplistic approach to capturing E&M codes and procedures, lost fees are a thing of the past with IQCharge™.

Doctors can enhance their patient documentation and decrease chart deficiencies with IQSpeak®. This product keeps track of dictated reports, automatically combining the patient data with the dictation and provides for the merging of patient data to the typed document. This facilitates report creation at the time of encounter and provides separation of patient dictations for enhanced transcription workflow. IQSpeak streamlines and simplifies the dictation process, pulling each demographic profile from the practice management system for each scheduled patient encounter, placing it on the PDA.

The physician simply clicks on the patient's name and begins speaking to create a digital dictation. The physician does not have to worry with redundant spelling of names, dictating chart numbers, etc. All of this information is automatically attached in text form to the voice dictation once a patient is selected. The physician simply speaks and IQSpeak takes care of the rest, increasing the accuracy and streamlining the process for both the physician and transcription professional.

IQMAX solutions are easy to install and typically include data feeds from the patient information and scheduling systems; therefore, the dictation and charges are linked to patient data and the physicians have their patient schedule and rounds lists in the palm of their hand.

IQMAX solutions are deployed and supported though the IQExchange™ platform. Every certified PDA (Palm OS™ or PocketPC™) device deployed in the field can be automatically updated via IQExchange — an enterprise data exchange platform that can be remotely accessed from any number of wired or wireless PDAs, simultaneously updating them with new features and applications. IQExchange also creates a secure pipeline to IQ enabled PDAs, providing medical professionals with a two-way entry and access point to vast amounts of information. The IQMAX technology is unparalleled in today's PDA environment.