Our Go Live date for 5.8 is 5/19/14. Our Go Live Date for KBM 8.3 is 6/9/14. The usual time between upgrade is 12 weeks. We are pushing Nextgen to do the two upgrades closer together to shorten the pain & get us up & running before the summer. This will give us the summer to start dual coding with ICD-10. Remember the Go Live Date for ICD-10 is 10/1/14!!! This will give us almost 4 months on the new system.
Annette & I are having weekly phone conversations with our project manager, Judy, to help us move forward with the upgrades. Please let us know if you have any questions you wish us to ask.
Vital Sign Machines
Michele will place the order this week for the 2 other vital sign machines. These were OK'ed by exec committee ~ 1 year ago. Sandie Martin reported to us today that there is universal agreement among the staff at OMN that the vital signs machine saves them significant time. The biggest issue with the vital signs machine, at this time, is the wait to get to it.
Exec committee approved Adair & myself for the trial of Nextpen. This is a pen that parents can use to fill out forms that we generate. The information obtained by the pen can be downloaded into the computer with a simple docking station. The Nextpen can capture family history & social history. It can capture anything that requires structured data.We are going to trial this to see if it can lessen the staff work flow. I will keep you posted.
Patient Portal
We have been given the go ahead to order Patient Portal. We will start this process but expect the upgrades to happen first.
Patient Photos
We have asked Nextgen to send us the information needed to start taking pictures of our patients at their yearly physicals to add to the patient demographic bar. It turns out that, not only is it cute but, it cuts down on computer generated order errors when the provider can see the picture of the patient they are placing orders. The pictures will be taken at the front desk.
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