Physician Portal

TSG’s Physician Portal is a physician dashboard with online Electronic Medical Records (EMR), Electronic Chart Management (ECM), and personalized clinical decision support. It is a web-based, front-end application for access to critical patient clinical information from any HCIS laboratory, pharmacy, radiology, and/or transcription systems, anytime and anywhere. It provides the ability to personalize the tracking, graphing, and analysis of vitals, lab results, ICU data, and more for better management of outcomes and clinical decision-making to enhance the quality of patient care. Physician Portal also comes with a two-way integrated messaging component for direct communication between physicians, clinicians, and medical records.

Certified MU Modules
Physician Portal meets Meaningful Use 2 requirement:
Core objectives (#7) – §170.314(d)(4)
Physicians will be able to add addendum to a patients Electronic Health Record Patients will be able to electronically request changes to their Electronic Health Record Physicians will be able to electronically accept or deny the patients request
Core objectives (#8) – §170.314(b)(5) – Incorporate laboratory test results
Imports LAB data from Meditech and displays it to clinicians. Provides Trending and graphing capabilities Electronically display the tests and values/results received in human readable format
Menu objectives (#2) – §170.314(a)(9) – Record electronic notes in patient records
Users to have the ability to electronically record, Change, access and search electronic notes
Menu objectives (#3) – §170.314(a)(12) – Imaging results and information are accessible through Certified EHR Technology.
Imaging – Electronically indicate to a user the availability of a patient’s images and any explanation or other accompanying information (relating to the radiographic or other diagnostic test(s)). The user’s credentials are auto verified and the image displays from the PACS system using the PACS system web viewer

Key Strengths

Private and confidential viewing of patient information from off-site locations such as home, outpatient clinic, or ancillary office
Clinical decision support with personalization
Built-in E-Sign component for physicians to be able to read, approve, and e-sign documents online
Unifies the patient chart
Usability experts ensure that the users do not have to be software experts

Customized Client Benefits

Eastern Health:	Western Health:
Provide the ability for the clinics to download their daily reports and print to their office printer in order to retain a paper copy of the chart Reduce the cost of printing paper at the hospital, reduce the cost of paying a messenger to take the files to the clinic, allows the clinic to print their patients Lab or Radiology results on demand for better patient care instead of receiving the results on the next business day.	Discrete Transcription Editing (DTE) Physician may view and e-sign documents from within Physician/Provider Portal. Edits and signatures will be bi-directional between the portal and Meditech Launch Dictation system within Provider Portal Provides the user the ability to review assigned consults and mark the consults as complete. The consults are then marked as complete in Meditech Displays the providers surgery schedule Displays the scheduling department waitlist Mark consults as completed. Add an alert type called Consults and provide a button called “Completed” so they can mark consults as completed. – 30 hrs Instead of providers receiving the billing information for discharged patients in a paper form, the portal provides the provider the ability to review the information electronically

Features and Benefits:

Multiple systems can be integrated into the portal to unify the patient record and provide physicians one application to accommodate workflow.	Providers with an EMR can have the ability to print to a digital copy	Includes an alert system that notifies the provider of abnormal/critical results
Option to edit and E-sign reports within the portal	Problem List with current and historical/resolved problems	Supports any browser or mobile device
Alerts for delinquent, ready to approve, and ready to e-sign charts	Two-way integrated messaging between physicians and medical records staff	Utilized by all health care providers
Ability to access hospital/specialty/physician-specific reference information online, from the same application	Provides a one-stop shop for instant and single click access to Pharmacy, Radiology, Transcription, Nursing, Lab, Order Entry, and Admissions information for selected patient or visit; plus scanned images, patient allergies, and patient specific documents