One customer requested a nursing module for OpenEMR, adding 2 features: States and Phrases. States are exclusive conditions, for instance: At his room/Somewhere else. Phrases are non exclusive conditions, for instance: Unsalted diet/Hypocaloric diet/Processed diet. This is an addition to the Inpatient Module, which is an exclusive/unique condition. For instance, if John Doe is occupying …
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Additional tasks to the Inpatient Module, by client request
Inpatient Module Creation of a script to whiten the hospitalization tables within the database. Screens with individual patient data, sorted by Area / floor and by Surname. Facility to view or print all the data of a single patient at once. More patient data can be added, upon request. PowerPointPoint file, descriptive of the hospitalization …
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Cost of the Electronic Medical Record system
Factors affecting the cost of the EMR Factors based on number of users, data volume, implemented features There are many variables to consider to estimate the installation cost of an EMR system. These are the standard questions about the final users, which we usually ask in order to quote an installation and a maintenance service. …
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Online Electronic Medical Records (EMR) and Electronic Health Records (EHR)
The Electronic Medical Records issue is quite complex, because there is no standard yet, and thousands of competing applications try to conquer the big clients. Some are Open Source, some are free, many are sold. A few countries and states have decided to implement a single EMR application, to lower costs and focus all the …
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Psychological Testing and Treatment
To this proposal, the 3 medical businesses described above apply: Online EMR, Telemedicine, Marketing and Marketplaces. Psychology is a discipline that can greatly benefit from the Internet, because there is no strict need for physical contact between patient and doctor. Of course, something is lost when human proximity is replaced by a webcam. There are …
Opportunities for Pharmaceutical Companies
The 5 previous proposals have many advertising and sponsorship places for drug companies. Doctors who are active online are likely to be more influential and see more patients that those who are hiding in their offices, and pharm sales reps need to identify them and see them, virtually or physically. When a product is being …
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Traceable Medicine
This bizz takes elements of several others described here. Medicine has always been defined as part art, part science. Art resists definition and can not be traced, while science is the opposite. As a part-time practicing doctor, I know that Medical care is far from being exact science and the doctor-patient interaction is hardly …
Medical Knowledge Marketplaces
Once the patients have an online medical record (EMR) most patients can examined by online doctors, and in many cases those remote professionals can solve the problem. Of course we are excluding many cases in which human contact is necessary for physical or psychological reasons. I conceive the near future of medical care as …
Medical Marketing
Doctors have ethical restrictions for doing marketing, and for that reason there are Patient Referral Services that with supposed objectivity advice patients as to which doctor to go. They have existed for a long time, but the web based ones are easier to run, more efficient and have wider reach. Medical Marketing can sell the …
Telemedicine
Telemedicine refers to any medical action done at a distance. For some tasks this is a very easy, and does not really need the physical doctor-patient contact. Or the contact can be replaced by video cameras and touch-sensitive data gloves. For instance, interpreting EKG, EEG or X Ray images is often done with the …