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Ann Arbor, MI 48104

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Function Outline

1 Care Management
1.1  Health information capture and review
1.1.1 Lookup patient
1.1.2 Manage Patient Demographics
1.1.3 Manage Problem List
1.1.4 Manage Medication List (Current and Historical)
1.1.5 Manage Allergy List
1.1.6 Manage Patient History
1.1.7 Manage clinical documents and notes
1.1.8 Manage Health maintenance items, immunizations
1.1.9 Manage vital signs/findings/inputs and outputs
1.1.10 Review chart summary
1.1.11 Review "large objects" (image, video, waveform)
1.1.12 Review growth charts
1.1.13 Document disposition
1.1.14 Patient entered data

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1.1.1        Capture of key data (e.g., using standardized code sets / nomenclature, point-of-care capture, patient / family entered data -- including multimedia)
1.1.2        Capture of clinical documents / documentation through various means -- narrative, template, structured documents, data sets, and coded data
1.2  Care Planning, Critical Paths, Protocols
1.2.1 Passive guidelines for clinical support during data entry/patient care
1.2.2 Support for disease based protocols
1.2.3 Interactive care plans
1.3 Medications, medication management (includes prescriptions)
1.3.1 Drug dosage defaults or templates
1.3.2 Prescription formularies (optional)
1.3.3 Prescription cost (optional)
1.4 Orders, Referrals, and Results Management
1.4.1 Order advice/rules (EF)
1.4.2 Manage laboratory results
1.4.3 Manage other results
1.5  Patient Flags, Precautions, and Adverse Events
1.5.1 Allergies
1.6  Health Maintenance: Preventive Care, Wellness, Disease Management
1.7  Consents and Authorizations
1.8  Episodes, Problem Management - Problem Oriented Care
2 Clinical Decision Support
2.1 Access to knowledge sources
2.2 Drug alerts
2.3 Other rule-based alerts
2.4 Clinical reminders
2.5 Clinical Pathways and reminders
2.6 Chronic disease management
2.7 Incorporate patient and family preferences
2.8 Diagnostic decision support
3 Operations Management and Communications
3.1  Operations Work Flow (including staging, sequencing, and routing)
3.2  Scheduling
3.3  Work Lists
3.4   Communication
3.4.1       Inter-Practitioner Communication
3.4.2        Team Coordination
3.4.3        Practitioner/Patient/Family Communication
3.4.4       Patient, Family and Care Giver Education
3.5 Enable business, clinical, and regulatory rules and guidelines
4    Clinical Support
4.1  Disease Registries
4.2 Donor, Blood Bank
4.3 Patient Locator
4.4 Practitioner Locator
4.5 Patient Transport
4.6 Bed Management
4.7 Demographics, De-Identification, Anonomization
5    Measurement, Analysis, Research and Reports
5.1  Outcomes monitoring, measuring, and reporting
5.2  Quality Indicators
5.3  Performance and Accountability Measures
5.4  Analysis and Measures
5.5  Create Reports, Reporting (may include Print Chart)
5.6 Export data (EF, since need format for public health, CMS)
5.7  Epidemiological Surveillance
5.8  Population based disease management support (may include disease registries)
6   Administrative and Financial
6.1  Encounter Management
6.2  Eligibility and Enrollment
6.3  Authorizations and Referrals.
6.4  Practitioner/Patient Relationship
6.5  Multiple Person Linkages
6.6  Coding - Diagnosis, Procedures, Outcomes
6.7  Charges, Charge Management
6.8  Costs, Cost Management
6.9 Local Authority/Localization
6.10 Acuity and Severity
7 Infostructure
7.1 Security
7.2 Privacy
7.3 Audit trail
7.4 Registries
7.5 Interoperability
7.5.1 Vocabulary
7.6 Record management
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