Appmed EMR is our Electronic Medical Records Software. This Program is a robust and yet easy to use patient notes application which can be added as an option to the Appmed billing program. This program uses the same database as our billing program so no re-entry or importing / exporting of patient information is needed. AppMed EMR is developed to run on any Windows PC but is designed to take advantage of the capabilities found on tablet PCs.
The AppMed EMR note is created in the same way you record notes now. It is developed through following the same familiar series of steps that you probably already use.
You can easily navigate through the History of Present Illness (HPI), Review of Systems (ROS Past Family and Social History (PFSH) to construct the subjective findings to begin the note. Or you can go directly to the Subjective pane and start there.
It is finished through Objective, Assessment and Plan sections. Each section is developed independently by using a combination of input methods.
When you begin creating a note, you can record a "Preliminary Assessment". AppMed uses this to bring forward templates, ICD9 and CPT codes which are most commonly used for this condition. This makes the program intuitive and quicker to use.
The AppMed billing, scheduling and EMR programs all share the same database. The instant you enter a patient it is available in all three programs. Other database tables such as the Diagnosis and CPT code tables are also immediately available.
AppMed EMR works with all input methods. As a base component, it uses templates which can be called from relevant lists depending on the section of the note you are writing. The templates can be made to include variable topics (left, right, plantar, dorsal, etc) which you can select from a side window. These templates and variable topic lists can be added or modified easily to your liking.
Other input methods which you can use to write all or part of the notes are voice recognition (i.e. Dragon Dictation), handwriting recognition and good old fashioned keyboard typing.