Clinician is a laboratory order entry and results reporting system. Clinician also features an ePrescribing application, ClinicianRx, to support physician-pharmacy EDI transactions.
Users have the option of accessing the complete suite of Clinician functions, which includes lab orders and results or just use the ePrescribing segment as an independent application.
Clinician consists of several application modules designed to work together as one program. The modules and functions you use will depend on your individual job responsibilities and your work environment. The applications in Clinician have a consistent design, making it easy for you to learn how to use the program in no time.
Clinician is a web-enabled solution that simplifies order entry and reports distribution of any clinical documentation processed by health systems, hospitals, or laboratories. Clinician Rx is a web-based electronic prescribing solution that provides patient medication histories, drug formularies, and drug information at the point-of-care.
Clinician can electronically link to multiple labs simultaneously and seamlessly. Moreover, Clinician supports the creation and printing of manual orders. ClinicianRx sends electronic prescriptions to pharmacies and accepts incoming refill requests. ClinicianRx provides real time drug benefit eligibility, formulary checking and retrieval of patient medication history.
Clinician has the ability to store patient demographic information including medical, billing, and insurance data.
The data for Clinician is stored remotely and accessed through a Web server, which is why you must be connected to the Emdeon network via an Internet connection. Because no data is stored on your PC, you do not need to backup data since this function is carried out at the remote server by Emdeon Business Services. The security system, which is a key component of Clinician, prevents other practices from seeing your data.
Prescription transactions are sent and received via the Emdeon PPI switch in NCPDP format, which is the accepted standard for electronic pharmacy POS transactions. In addition, Clinician links to other external services and databases to provide plan benefit identification, Rx History and drug utilization review functions.
For physicians with practice management systems (PMS), a one-time download of existing patient records into Clinician can be carried out to eliminate the need for duplicate entry of patient data. Clinician can also be interfaced to numerous practice management systems to pull patient data into Clinician as the need arises, such as when creating an order. The physician’s PMS system can also be used to access patient information to support ePrescribing functions. For clients with existing order entry systems, data can be converted and loaded into Clinician for a seamless migration.
Clinician reduces the amount of paperwork required to prepare and submit accurate laboratory requisitions while providing a method for capturing and reviewing laboratory-related information. In addition, Clinician provides users with new prescription, refill management and prescription reporting capabilities.
Because the system requires complete and accurate billing information during order entry and prior to electronic transmission, the probability of having a claim denied due to insufficient or inaccurate information is greatly reduced, thus increasing lab revenue.
Clinician also reduces the time it takes to test a patient's specimen by contacting the laboratory information system and placing the order before the specimen arrives. This connectivity allows physicians to view the results as soon as they are available. The system also provides eligibility verification for creating requisitions.
In addition, the system retains historic and demographic information about patients, requisitions and patient results, allowing clients to extract and generate a variety of reports.
Patient data stored in Clinician can be accessed by any user in the Emdeon network, provided the user has an active account and has been granted the appropriate security roles, permissions and consent by your office. This sharing of data eliminates the need to send hard copies of patient data to other offices for consultation. Electronic copies of lab results may be sent to other Clinician users. Unless your office grants access to a user and assigns that user the appropriate security permissions, your patient's data is safe and secure from unwanted access.
Clinician is designed to be an end-to-end solution for entering laboratory orders and viewing results and can be used by everyone in a medical practice, sponsor or IDN site.
Though it is possible for physicians to use the product, the most likely users are administrative staff and clinical technicians responsible for specimen collection, order creation and prescription related functions.
Typical Clinician users are:
Administrative end users (Office Managers, Registration and Billing Clerks)
Phlebotomists, Nurses and Lab Technicians
Sponsor personnel
Clinician ePrescribing functions are used by physicians and practice staff authorized to issue new prescriptions or drug refills.
Access to clinical data is defined by security roles, which means users are authorized to perform a specific function or task in Clinician based on the privileges granted by their role.
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