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Assistance for any size Veterinary Hospital using the Avimark® Practice Management System
Training, Software, Hardware, Networking and Total Integration
EMRs
"What will an Electronic Medical Record do for my veterinary practice?"
Depending upon your particular situation, you may find that one or more of the following apply.
1. Save Money Currently Spent on Office Overhead
 Eliminate Transcription Costs
 Eliminate costs for Paper Charts
 Cost of paper itself
 Cost for employees pulling and filing charts
 Cost and liabilities of looking for and transfer of lost charts
 Cost of storage of paper charts
 Cost of destruction of paper charts
 Save time telephoning patients with their lab / radiology reports, since they can view them online.
 Allow patients to fill out their past history on-line, or in a kiosk in the waiting room, minimizing my staff expense in obtaining this information.
 Allow patients to make and modify their appointment schedules online, thereby minimizing staff expense for scheduling.
 Minimize the number of telephone lines required in the office because much of the office/patient interaction will occur via the Internet.
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2. Increase Reimbursement for Services I perform
 Allow me to code properly
 Allow me to code / chart the highest level that the EMR will permit.
 Assist me in defending myself in the event of a lawsuite.
 Offer comprehensive documentation which allows me to justify higher fees.
 Prevent me from performing medical services without billing for them.
 Avoid lost superbills
 Avoid failure to code for ancillary services performed
 Allow me to bill for email consultations with patients
 Allow me to participate in medical research studies, if I wish to do so
 Allow me to have medical data which will be valuable to research companies
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3. Assist with electronic billing
 Medical records are already in an electronic and thereby easy to transmit format.
 Billing is already correlated with the medical records, and in a format appropriate for electronic billing.
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4. Enhance My Reputation in the Veterinary Medical Community
 Allow me to have fewer complications and treatment errors.
 Allow me to provide more comprehensive documentation to my Referral Sources
 Allow me to provide Referral Reports in a more timely fashion
 Allow me to be seen as a leader in technology
 Allow me to provide information produced in my office concerning my patients to other veterinarians electronically, thus increasing their confidence in me.
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5. Allow me to have more free time.
 Allow me to complete my documentation in a shorter period of time, once accustomed to using an EMR.
 Allow me to operate my office with fewer staff members, thus saving time on human resources issues relating to employees.
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5. Allow me to have more free time.
 Allow me to complete my documentation in a shorter period of time, once accustomed to using an EMR.
 Allow me to operate my office with fewer staff members, thus saving time on human resources issues relating to employees.
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6. Allow me to connect directly with laboratory, radiology and other telemedicine facilities.
 Allow Lab results to automatically populate my patient chart
 Allow me to have abnormal laboratory results flagged automatically, alerting me to issues which need to be addressed immediately.
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7. Allow me to incorporate findings from ‘ancillary’ equipment, such as ‘scopes’, EKG, Ultrasound etc., and images directly into my patient charts.
 Minimize or eliminate duplication of documentation from other medical equipment.
 Allow images and someday full video to be part of the medical documentation on my patients.
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8. Allow me to possibly someday connect directly with local and online Pharmacies
 Allow me to be certain that the prescription that I am providing to my patient is available in the pharmacy, is within my patients insurance plan’s formulary, affordable for my patient.
 Allow the Pharmacy to have earlier notification of the prescription so that my patient will have a shorter wait once they enter the pharmacy.
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9. Assist me with compliance and privacy issues
 Maintain confidentiality of my patient records.
 Automatically maintain multiple levels of security, access, etc. to my records.
 Minimize the exposure due to charts left inadvertently in accessible areas.
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10. Allow Me to Provide Better Patient Care
 Pharmaceutical Related
 Prevent Dosage Errors
 Prevent Handwriting misrecognition
 Prevent medication conflict with allergies
 Prevent medication conflict with other medications
 Prevent medication conflict with medical conditions
 Prevent medication conflict with familial or genetic (breed and species) history
 Clinical Guidelines
 Allow me to treat patients according to current clinical guidelines.
 Patient Education
 Appropriate printed instructions for the client, appropriate to species, breed, age, sex
 Allow clients to participate online with the chronic illness care of their pets, including keeping the clients apprised of their current medical conditions
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11. Keep in Touch with My Clients via the Internet
 Allow my Clients to view their pet's medical history online
 Allow my Clients to view their pet's lab / radiology, etc. results online
 Allow my Clients to schedule appointments online
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12. Teach My Clients about their Pet's Medical Conditions
 Offer language, breed, and species appropriate handouts to clients as they leave the office.
 Offer online tutorials to my clients concerning their pet's medical conditions
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13. Continue My Medical Education by teaching me
 Viewing prompts or protocols someday during documentation of a patient visit will allow me to understand what the veterinary medical community feels is most appropriate in treating various conditions.
 Notify me of new medications, dosages, complications, etc.
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14. Malpractice Exposure
 Lower the Exposure due to misdiagnosis
 Lower the Exposure due to treating outside of current clinical guidelines
 Lower the Exposure that exists because of lost charts
 Lower the Exposure due to improper documentation
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15. Immediacy of Record Access
 In the event of a drug recall, using an EMR will allow you to immediately, and automatically contact each of your clients who have a pet currently taking a recalled medication.
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16. Marketability of practice
 In the event that you wish to hire another veterinarian, or sell your practice having an EMR, and having all of your patient data on an EMR can make the transition for a new veterinarian easier, and therefore may make your veterinary practice more valuable.
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17. Interconnectivity between Veterinarians and Hospitals
 Let you communicate more freely and accurately with other veterinarians through the
 interconnectivity allowed in various EMRs.
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