Patient123.com Enables Medical Providers to Analyze Efficiency and Productivity, Creates Opportunity to Increase Net Income

WASHINGTON, Sept. 10, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- A Web site, Patient123.com, offers tools for measuring health providers' productivity, and perhaps improving it by enabling providers to delegate much health history acquisition and documentation to others. An illustration shows how a provider receiving $70 per 15 minute office visit, 30 hours a week, 48 weeks a year could increase net annual income by more than $26,000. This would be achieved if a provider cared for more patients with the time saved by delegating an average of one minute of health history acquisition and/or documentation per patient visit to others compensated at the rate of $25 an hour. The Web site includes a Cost-Benefit Analyzer tool that could help providers calculate the cost-effectiveness of their current documentation process and estimate the potential benefit of the processes described.

The illustrated processes reduce the time that providers need to acquire, organize and document patients' health history in either a paper or electronic medical record (EMR). Patients or their surrogates could use computers, tablets, or smart phones to create anonymous reports that summarize patients' past health information and add new data in real-time. Providers could quickly select relevant health topics from the reports since topics would be grouped under one of six headings, dated, described, and automatically sorted chronologically. Provider-selected data could be printed as the current Medical History document for a paper medical record; whereas, staff could enter the selected data into an EMR. The key to the efficiency described is the selection of relevant topics from pre-recorded health information rather than the typical time consuming method. The latter consists of providers questioning patients regarding health information and organizing the acquired answers within their brains, which consequently requires the providers to enter the data into the Medical History by typing, writing, or dictating and proof-reading.

Providers could establish their own portals and attain more comprehensive use of patients' data files, when given access by the patients or their authorized representatives. The additional features include Worksheets created when providers select data and automatically format a Progress Note, History of Present Illness, Physical Examination, or Evaluation and Management report, singularly or as a merged document.

Use of the Web site is free for patients, providers, and assistants. Patient privacy can be protected by anonymous use, encryption, user ID, passwords, and establishing appropriately positioned blank text-fields that allow entry of sensitive information to be postponed until in a safe environment.

ABOUT HEALTH DATA MANAGEMENT, L.L.C.

Health Data Management, L.L.C. was organized under the District of Columbia Code June 1, 2004 and sponsors: www.patient123.com.

CONTACT INFORMATION
Joseph Chapman, M.D.: Email
(202) 288-2598

SOURCE Patient123.com