New Preventive Health Care Model Offers Computerized Patient Alerts and Patient Reminders. VersaForm's Patient Registry software was developed to help physician offices and clinics enhance the quality, safety and efficiency of patient care.
Campbell, CA (PRWEB) April 1, 2009 -- VersaForm, a leading provider of practice management software solutions, introduces Patient Registry, developed to help physician offices and clinics enhance the quality, safety and efficiency of patient care. Patient Registry software captures and manages clinical information on diseases, conditions and patient populations to support evidence-based medicine for preventive care and chronic disease management.
Patient Registry provides advantages to physicians and clinics adopting the 'medical home' model of preventive health care. Studies in the New England Journal of Medicine and other publications show that the 'medical home' model is gaining ground as an important step toward the goal of better patient outcomes and reduced medical costs. With this same goal in mind, the U.S. government (HHS-Medicare, Medicaid, etc.) is considering the medical home model for population health as a foundation for restructuring the current provider payment system.
The medical home uses networked and Internet-connected PCs to provide a centralized point of care management for patients and the coordination of their treatment. In this environment, the Patient Registry application identifies patients overdue for checkups or treatments, provides clinical guidelines, generates automated physician alerts and patient reminders, assesses improvement in quality of care, and produces provider-specific reports to monitor gaps in care. This proactive solution helps physicians improve ma
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