The truth is, there are about 220 software products currently available for Medical Practice Management, and there is no clear market leader. On top of that, there exists no objective resource to review the massive amount of products, and that can present a seemingly daunting decision process.

It doesn’t have to be as time consuming and risky as you think.

Ask your colleagues. Trust your colleagues.

If you whittle down those 220 to only those that are used by tens of thousands of medical practices, you are left with only a handful.

Your first decision: there are two types of PM software. A billing only solution or a full practice management suite that handles patient billing, insurance claims, appointment scheduling, reporting, and staff management.

The elephant in the room.

A couple of years ago, there was a second choice to make when switching from paper claims to electronic. The decision was whether to include an Electronic Medical Record solution, now dubbed “Electronic Health Records (EHR),” with the new Practice Management software, that traditionally handled only billing issues. Most doctors opted out. While continuing studies show the cost and care benefits of switching to electronic records, most doctors have been reluctant to invest in the switch.

That luxury no longer exists; federal regulations are imminent.

When choosing a Practice Management software, you must also be aware and approve of the EHR solutions that integrate with that choice. Even if you are not ready to rid yourself of your paper library, you have to choose between:

1. A PM solution that integrates with a third party EHR software.

   Consider whether the software manufacturers approve of each other, by certifying that their products work in conjunction with one another.
   Do NOT pair a PM with an EHR unless you know someone who has successfully done so and gives you a positive referral.

   or

2. A complete PM/EHR integrated package, written by one developer.

   Deceptively more costly, but without the IT headaches of data interchange problems between two different software manufacturers.

Consider the problem like you would consider an automobile purchase. You could either a) buy an older car that has little upfront and ongoing costs, but will present costly, random headaches down the line or b) buy a brand new car that has greater up front and ongoing costs but will have no maintenance issues. Managing your practice, like buying a car, will always cost you money.

Third, decide this. Client/Server environment, or Web-Based Solution?

A client/server environment means you will have an office network, powered by a server and workstations. Smaller operations can get away with doing this all on one machine, but the bottom line is that you will need to invest in a hefty server to power your in-house needs; and this will be a continual investment. New government regulations and new software features always mean upgrades to hardware down the line. It goes with the territory. The benefit is that everything is under your control, and in the hands of your own IT staff.

One workaround to this setup that medmerid has come up with, is a Remote Desktop environment, where minimal investment is made on the workstations (e.g. the front desk, billing and nurse computers), as those workstations are used merely as portals to access a more hefty server that will run the Practice Management software for all of its users. This powerful server is a big initial investment, and will need to be maintained and upgraded over time, however the workstation startup costs are minimal, and they last forever! Because your Practice Management software will not be installed on your workstations, they will never need to be upgraded, and depending on the design, can minimize virus threats, data integrity and security, and most importantly, IT costs.

What if I don’t want all that? Is there another choice?

In the last year we have seen a huge trend of doctors saying ‘enough’. Every new government regulation forces new software upgrades, and new software feautures mean new hardware upgrades. Doctors are tired of hearing that it is time to upgrade their expensive servers, and the new trend of web-based Practice Management has emerged. These solutions offer endless benefits. In exchange for one fixed monthly cost, and a low intial setup fee, you will no longer have to invest in hardware, software upgrades, software backups and IT costs. You will ALWAYS be kept up to HIPAA compliant standards, and remote management means virus-free, theft-free, terrorism-secured data integrity.

So what’s the catch? Those doctors that have been reluctant to switch to web-based technologies have cited two concerns.

1. Ownership of data.

   Doctors are fearful that their data will be hijacked if they want to switch solutions, or if their software provider goes out of business. But current government regulations protect your ownership of patient records, and all good providers now allow you to download your data at any time.

2. Dependency on the internet.

   If the internet goes down, your business is down. This can affect practices in more rural areas with spotty access to the internet; while urban offices can usually have two sources of access to alleviate these concerns.

Bottom line. Which concerns you more? Having your internal network go down, leaving you with the reigns to bring it all back? Or having your internet connection go down, forcing your business on to paper until it comes back?

Decision Four. Consider the user.

Consider who will actually be using the software the most. Your biller? Front desk staff? The nurses? That person’s input is just as important as your referral. Do not purchase a PM/EHR solution without downloading a trial (or getting a demo) and having your user try it themselves. If they cannot navigate their way through the menus and screens, your productivity gains are immediately negated.

Five. A second opinion.

If you are picking one of the major products, this will not be an issue for you, but make sure you have access to your data. One of the biggest headaches encountered when switching PM software is data conversions. If your chosen solution uses a major database, like Microsoft SQL Server, as its backbone, you should have little concern for future changes to your practice.

While you should make your own decisions about your practice’s roadmap, and referrals are your best source of  intelligence regarding software solutions, these little details are why consultants exist.

In summary.

• Billing only or full practice management?
  • Billing only: best for single computer billers or small, low volume, 1 doctor practices.
  • Full PM Suite: Typical 1-5 practitioner small business practices.
• Pick an EHR. You may not feel ready, but you will be forced to switch soon.
• Consider web-based solutions if you don’t have access to great IT (or don’t want to pay an IT staff), and you have decent internet access in your office.
• Have your end user approve of your choice.
• Make sure all your bases are covered. Use an independent consultant like medmerid, that offers multiple solutions, to give you an unbiased recommendation.

You can reduce your taxable income, dollar for dollar, on any amount you spend to upgrade your servers, switch practice management software, or rollout Electronic Medical Records.

If you spend over $128,000, you may still depreciate that overage amount over the next 5 years.

Now is the time.

Your purchases must be made before 12/31/09, and the Tax Code is a ‘use it or lose it’ situation: your eligibility to use Section 179 does not roll over. Congress has made no decisions on whether to extend this benefit past the 2009 tax year.

Read an in-depth explanation of Tax Code Section 179.

PM or MPM or even PMS

Pracice Management, Medical Practice Management or Practice Management Software. These all refer to the software needed to run your practice. Original PM solutions were built solely for billing purposes. These days a full Practice Management suite can handle patient billing, insurance claims, appointment scheduling, reporting, and staff management.

EMR/EHR

Electronic Medical/Health Records. The term Electronic Medical Record has been slowly replaced with Electronic Health Record. The terms are, for the most part, interchangeable. They refer to the electronic records of the medical history of a patient. It is the digital version of your paper-based patient charts.
Electronic Medical Records (EMR) can refer to a private practices’ records, whereas Electronic Health Records (EHR) often refer to patient data that is interchangeable across multiple health organizations. When it comes to choosing software, however, the acronyms are synonymous.

HL7, ANSI ASC X12, EDI

EDI is Electronic Data Interchange. It simply means the communication between two computers that are usually housed in different organizations.
HL7 and ANSI ASC X12 are standards that were written so that information shared between hospitals and medical organizations are talking the same language; both in a technical manner and physically (they cover everything from computer code to the layout of forms).

HIPAA

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act: Congress enacted standards for electronic health care records and transactions, with the aim of secure and private patient records and national indentifier standards for health care providers. In other words, the rules and regulations you must legally follow when handling ANY type of electronic health information or transaction.

ASP

Application Service Provider. This is another name for web-based software solutions- those Practice Management/EHR solutions that you pay a monthly fee for, and access over the internet.

HCPCS, CPT, ICD

These are all billing terms. Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (sometimes called Hick-Picks) refers to a standardized coding system that describes items or services (and their associated fees) provided by healthcare professionals. HIPAA regulations made the use of these codes, specifically the AMA’s set of CPT codes, mandatory. Although required by law now, the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes are only available by fee from the American Medical Association (AMA). If you are purchasing a new Practice Management system for your office, you will most likely encounter fees for the use of these codes within your new software.
The World Health Organization (WHO) also provides a set of codes called International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD). These codes refer to specific diseases and their related symptoms, and while used internally by hospitals and health organizations due to their thoroughness, are a statistical classification system for world health research studies.

• Lytec 2009 is a Practice Management software solution that integrates appointment scheduling, patient accounting and billing, insurance claims, and business reporting.
• Lytec MD includes the full suite of capabilities of Lytec 2009 and adds integrated Electronic Health Records, allowing a physician to update a patients’ entire medical chart from a one page note-centric form.

Lytec 2009 Licensing Options

• Single User (for a 1 user practice or biller)
• Multi-User (1-3 simultaneous users)
  The application could be installed on 5 or more PCs, however only 3 concurrent users would be allowed to log in to the Lytec software.
• Professional (1-5 simultaneous users)
  This version adds Encoder Pro, a powerful tool that helps you code CPT-4, ICD-9 and HCPCS Codes correctly, reducing claim rejections. A Code Import tool also reduces errors by retrieving the latest procedure codes (ICD-9 and HCPCS) in to your software.
  It is possible to use a powerful Windows XP or Vista Business workstation as the server for this (and lesser) version(s).
• Client/Server (>5 simultaneous users)
  Similar to the ‘Professional’ version in its featureset, but adds an enterprise-class SQL database to its foundation, requiring a more hefty Windows Server, but increasing dependability and integrity of data.

Lytec MD Licensing

• Lytec MD is sold as a 5 simultaneous user per 1 provider license. Additional licenses can be acquired a la carte.

If you are a small, 1 computer biller or practitioner, there is a solution called AltaPoint Medical. If you visit our contact page you can request a Mac trial version which we can email back for you to demo.

There is another scaled back, almost featureless solution, called EzMedPro. We can email you a demo of that too if you want to cover all your bases.

Full fledged practices can consider the MacPractice offerings. They offer Medical, Dental, Chiropractic and Vision versions of their Practice Management software. You can request a quicktime video demonstrating its capabilities. MacPractice does have a simple EMR solution called MacPractice EMR, and they integrate with more robust solutions like SpringCharts and ComChart.

Those, however, wishing to adopt to Electronic Medical Records while using Macs in their workplace are recommended to consider web-based or medmerid’s Remote Desktop based solutions.

In a web-based setup, all that is required of your Macs are access to the internet (and some of your machines can be PCs too!). You would access a remotely managed server operating your choice of Practice Management software - and you are not limited to Mac software, you have the opportunity to choose from any PC based solutions as well, with no interoperability issues. Data backups, software upgrades and HIPAA compliance, are all managed for you for a minimal monthly fee.
medmerid’s Remote Desktop solutions, on the other hand, require you to house your own server. With an in-house Microsoft Server, you have complete control over your network and your data. Your workstations, whether they be Macs or PCs or a mixture of both, all access your choice of Practice Management software via a portal software. Not only are you not limited to Mac-based software choices, but your network will require minimal hardware upgrades to keep up with evolving software releases.

It’s a brand new year for Lytec – with a new product suite that offers new opportunities for physician practices to reduce administrative burden while improving patient care and the reimbursement for that care.

The Lytec practice management system that you know and love now offers much more than automated scheduling, billing and A/R management. With a new electronic medical record (EMR) solution and enhanced EDI and consumer connectivity solutions powered by RelayHealth, Lytec now offers a full suite of solutions to manage the business and clinical sides of your practice.

The Lytec suite of solutions from McKesson does it all. Learn more about the all new Lytec:

• Read about, and order your copy of, Lytec 2009.
• Watch a Video of how Lytec can help your practice.
• Prior user of Lytec software? Download the features Matrix to get a glance of what’s new for 2009.
• Read about Lytec MD, the Practice Management Solution that includes fully integrated Electronic Health Records.
• Call our direct sales team at 1-87-RIVUSLLC.

Lytec 2009 is a market-leading practice management system that helps improve cash flow and increase office productivity. Lytec covers all aspects of your practice from comprehensive billing, scheduling, and accounts receivable management to automatic recall tracking, document scanning and robust reporting.

Watch how Lytec 2009 can revolutionize your practice’s workflow

Watch a Video Demo of Key Features in Lytec 2009

Download a trial version of Lytec 2008 (2009 trial coming soon)

Order Now

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Benefits

• Improves productivity of the scheduling staff
• Simplifies patient accounting
• Speeds insurance billing and improves reimbursement
• Improves collections and reduces accounts receivable
• Tracks practice performance through multiple reports
• Reduces administrative burden for physicians so they can focus on patient care

Key Features

Scheduling

• Schedules, moves or cancels appointments quickly and easily
• Views appointments according to your office setup — by day, week or resource
• Prints superbills
• Allows multiple bookings to minimize missed appointment
• Alerts staff of patients’ co-payments and balances due

Patient Accounting/Billing

• Adds efficiency with all account information for each patient on a single screen for convenient access, entry tracking and retrieval
• Simplifies daily book balancing using patient daysheets
• Easily applies patient payments with the payment wizard
• Manages patient receivables with aging reports
• Tracks insurance authorizations and reminds you when the authorized visits have run out
• Helps track and manage all your insurance claims
• Prints standard CMS-1500 claim forms
• Tracks past due payments to maintain timely and accurate insurance billing
• Integration with RelayHealth EDI services for faster claims processing and improved reimbursement electronic data
• Prints professional patient statements with notes to encourage prompt payment
• Pinpoints past due balances
• Interfaces with BillFlash from McKesson partner, NexTrust, for more efficient statement processing

Reporting

• Identifies the trends of your practice through diagnosis and procedure code analysis
• Tracks the profitability of your referring physician network
• Summarizes information about the financial status and service performance of the practice
• Analyzes the managed care costs for services provided against the insurance reimbursement received through contract services
• Compares the difference between charges to an insurance company and the amount reimbursed from the insurance company
• Tracks the number of inventory items you sell

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Lytec 2009 Enhancements

• Statement Enhancements

  A new “charge detail line” feature enables a charge and its associated payments, adjustments and balance to appear on one line, making patient statements shorter and less confusing.

• Non-consecutive values filter on reports

  Users can select individual codes or ranges of non-consecutive codes for reports, allowing virtually any report to be produced with the exact criteria desired.

• Patient Merge Utility

  A new utility allows users to merge two patient records, combining charges, payments, appointments, billing, history, patient notes, patient images and A/R management notes.

• Billing status codes

  Practices can use the new “billing status code” to address several business issues such as tracking visit types, grouping claims together that need to be submitted in paper form, or putting a cash code on bills for patients who purchase services not covered by insurance.

• Create charge from Appointment Scheduler

  The receptionist can now enter patient charges and co-pay information from the Appointment Scheduler screen, saving time.

• Show detail payments in Charges and Payments

  Billers are now able to view payment details directly under the corresponding charge line itme.

• Month- and year-to-date totals on financial reports

  Financial reports can now show month-to-date (MTD) and year-to-date (YTD) totals, providing a clearer picture of financial status.

• Location and facility subtotals on financial reports

  Users can now subtotal financial information by location and facility codes, helping to better analyze utilization of resources.

• Practice analysis subtotal by provider

  Multi-provider clinics can now run the Practice Analysis report with subtotal information by provider

• Year-end patient payment report (tax report)

  Lytec 2009 includes a new report showing a patient’s payments by calendar year for tax-reporting purposes.

• Prepayment activity zero balance suppression

  Under Reports/Patient/Prepayment Activity, you can now suppress any prepayment entries that have been completely applied.

• Appointment template sharing

  Users can now create and/or edit a template for single resource and then share the template with other resources.

• Patient Notes security and auditing

  Lytec 2009 includes security options to allow or restrict users from viewing, adding, deleting and modifying patient notes.

• Added fields to custom reports

  In Lytec 2009,  as many data fields as possible were identified and added to custom reports for future use.

Technical Requirements

Workstation system (recommended)

• Equivalent to Pentium 4 3.0Ghz processor or higher
• 4GB of available hard disk space
• 2GB RAM
• 32-bit operating system
• DVD drive

Workstation (required)

• Windows XP Professional SP2 or higher
  or
• Windows Vista Business, 32 bit  operating system

Server system (recommended)

• Equivalent to Intel Pentium 4 3.6Ghz processor or higher
• 6GB of available hard disk space
• 4GB RAM
• 32-bit operating system
• DVD drive

Server operating system (required)

• Client Server:

  Windows 2000 or 2003 Server (Enterprise or Standard editions) with latest service packs

• Multi-User/Professional editions:

  Windows XP Professional SP2 or higher, Windows Vista Business, 32-bit operating system

Lytec MD combines the practice management (PM) features of Lytec 2009 with a proven electronic medical record (EMR) that has helped thousands of practices improve quality of care and financial performance. With Lytec MD, you keep the PM you know and add the EMR that can take you to the next level of practice automation.

Lytec 2009 Included

Lytec 2009 is a market-leading practice management (PM) system that helps practices improve cash flow and increase offive productivity. As the PM in Lytec MD, Lytec 2009 covers all financial aspects of your practice from comprehensive billing, scheduling and accounts receivable management to automatic recall tracking, document scanning and robust reporting. Refer to the Lytec 2009 page for a complete list of features, benefits and enhancements, all of which are included in Lytec MD.

• Watch how Lytec 2009 can revolutionize your practice’s workflow

• Watch a Video Demo of Key Features in Lytec 2009

• Download a trial version of Lytec 2008 (2009 trial coming soon)

• Order Lytec MD Now

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Unique Design Makes Patient Documentation More Efficient

• Easy to complete progress notes.

  Unlike other EMRs, Lytec MD features a unique note-centric design that allows physicians to complete the entire chart from the progress note. Any information you add to the note - such as medications, vital sign results or lab results - automatically update the entire chart, all from the note.

• Works the way you do.

  Documentation tools adapt to the providers’ style and offer a choice of data entry methods including: templates, speech recognition, transcription, digital pen, dictation and Web-based patient data entry.

• Delivers quick access to patient information.

  A provider dashboard lets you view all critical information - including messages, incoming results and a daily patient schedule - in one place. In addition, a review bin provides at-a-glance viewing of notes, documents and lab results.

• Efficiently manages orders.

  Physicians are able to quickly see overdue orders and track each order by patient, status and expected time for a result to return. In addition, incoming results automatically update order status.

Enhance Quality

• Supports care plan with built-in evidence-based content.

  Lytec MD offers easy access to the information you need to ensure exceptional care. An extensive knowledge base includes: Web-based access to hundreds of disease and medication protocols; a broad range of progress note templates covering both primary care and specialty topics, which include guidelines for diagnosis and treatment and care reminders.

• Enhances preventive care.

  Health maintenance protocols based on age, sex, disease, medications or other conditions specific to the patient. Includes disease and medication protocols. All are user configurable.

• Builds in extra safety for medication management.

  Electronic prescribing (via SureScripts and RxHub) improves patient safety and speeds new Rx and refill workflow. Physicians and other providers use thousands of Rx templates and comprehensive database of drug costs and checks - drug interaction, drug/allergy, drug/disease, drug/diagnosis - in addition to proactive does advice.

• Offers quick data inquiries and reporting.

  Streamlines reporting for population data management, pay for performance reporting, quality of care analysis, practice analysis, audits, and clinical studies. It easily handles standard queries (e.g. all diabetics who have had an HgbA1C greater than 7.5 in the last six months) as well as complex requests with up to 14 variables.

Delivers Tools to Help You Manage Your Day

• Analyze the note with a sophisticated coding advisor for Evaluation and Management codes using both the 1995 and 1997 CMS Documentation Guidelines to optimize coding based on documentation. Support consultations and time-based CPT coding.

• Load transcribed text and populate the entire patient chart including the problem list, medication list, medical histories and vital signs. Partially dictate a visit and have the transcribed text automatically go to the correct place in the note.

• Import and export chart summary data using CCD or CCR formats. Communicate with other practice’s EMRs or with the patient’s personal health record (PHR).

• When  importing the data, choose which chart sections to update while still keeping an entire copy of the imported document.

• Customized chart viewing by physician allows provider (and specialty) specific views for charts, chart summaries and flow charts.

Technical Requirements

Workstation system (recommended)

• Equivalent to Pentium 4 3.0Ghz processor or higher
• 4GB of available hard disk space
• 2GB RAM
• 32-bit operating system
• DVD drive

Workstation (required)

• Windows XP Professional SP2 or higher
  or
• Windows Vista Business, 32 bit operating system

Server system (recommended)

• Equivalent to dual dual core 2.0Ghz processor or higher
  or
  Quad core 1.8Ghz processor or higher
• 4GB RAM
• RAID 1 - 72GB OS partition
• RAID 10 - 146GB data partition
• DVD drive

Server operating system (required)

• Windows 2003 Server (Enterprise or Standard editions) with latest service packs

• Dragon Medical helps clinicians in mid-sized practices provide more efficient, profitable and higher quality care.
• Dragon Medical is designed and priced especially for practices.
• Dragon Medical is up to 99% accurate out-of-the-box,  and includes medical vocabularies covering nearly 80 medical specialties and subspecialties.
• Dragon Medical allows physicians to dictate in their own words, generating “once and done” documentation which they can dictate, edit and review in succession. Clinicians further accelerate dictation by using macros to re-use frequently dictated text. This approach dramatically reduces the time physicians spend documenting care.
• Dragon Medical supports HIPAA patient confidentiality guidelines, critical requirements for all practices.
• Dragon Medical lets clinicians use their own words to dictate progress notes, prescribe medication and access test results so they readily embrace EMR systems and dramatically accelerate EMR adoption.

Read about What’s New in Dragon Medical 10

Purchase Dragon Medical 10 Now

Key Benefits

• Dictate faster and more accurately than ever before
• Dictate anywhere in your EMR
• Accelerate clinician adoption of EMR systems
• Eliminate transcription costs
• Spend more time with patients
• Dictate in clinician’s own words
• Support higher level of reimbursement and reduce denials
• Improve clinician satisfaction

Key Features

• More Accurate Than Ever.

  20% more accurate than Dragon NaturallySpeaking Medical  9–and over 38% more accurate than Dragon Professional 10 when used in clinical settings.

• EMR Support.

  Navigate and dictate inside EMR software; History of Present Illness, Review of Systems, Assessment and Plan.

• Medical Vocabularies.

  Covers nearly 80 specialties and subspecialties. Dictate with confidence using your specialty’s vocabulary.

• Regional Accent Support.

  Accented speakers get higher out-of-the-box recognition with advanced adaptation techniques and accent-specific acoustic models.

• Supports HIPAA Regulations.

  Protect patient confidentiality by securely storing speech files.

• Hidden Mode.

  Dictate anywhere in the EMR, eliminating navigation between EMR screens and the notes window.

• DragonTemplates with Voice Fields.

  Automate form filling applications by adding fields in dictation templates.

• Medical Formatting Rules.

  Expands abbreviations and follows capitalization rules. “HPI” can appear as either
  “History of Present Illness”, “history of present illness”,  or “HPI.”

• PowerMicTM Ready.

  Program buttons to run any function or user voice command.

• MyCommands.

  Personal voice commands appear in Command browser for faster use.

Dragon Medical 10 Gives Physician Practices The Power To Achieve Maximum Efficiency

Dragon Medical 10 lets clinicians dictate faster and more accurately than ever before. Dragon Medical is 20% more accurate before enrollment than Dragon Medical 9, which means clinicians will save time dictating and spend little or no time correcting dictation. Dragon Medical offers virtually instant response time, saving clinicians valuable minutes in their day—no more waiting for transcribed reports or typing into the EMR.

Dictate anywhere in the EMR

Dragon Medical allows clinicians to dictate anywhere in an EMR system, while reviewing Lab Tests, Patient History, or Current Medications. Clinicians no longer have to click back and forth between information they’re reviewing and the dictation window. They dictate, while reviewing information, into Hidden Mode, which allows the physician to place the dictation directly where he or she wishes.

Accelerate clinician adoption and acceptance of EMR systems.

Dragon Medical reduces the time spent documenting care in an EMR using speech-driven navigation and narrative dictation.

With Dragon Medical 10, Practices Can Deliver Higher Quality Care

Clinicians receive a host of key advantages with Dragon Medical 10 compared to Dragon NaturallySpeaking Medical 9 or Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10 non-medical solutions:

Spend more time with patients.

Increased accuracy means fewer errors to correct, which lets clinicians spend more time with patients, improving both quality of care and patient satisfaction.

Dictate in their own words.

Dragon Medical’s free-text dictation capability supports more detailed History of Present Illness, more flexible Review of Systems, and more descriptive assessment and Plan—the “medical decision-making” aspects of the note—which give referring clinicians and ancillary providers a clearer and more detailed patient assessment and prognosis.

Secure patient information.

Only Dragon Medical supports HIPAA compliance guidelines to protect patient security and confidentiality.

Improve clinician satisfaction.

Clinicians who use Dragon Medical report that it significantly improves their enjoyment of practicing medicine. By allowing them to use their time more effectively, and getting them home in time for dinner, clinician quality of life improves.

Dragon Medical 10 Yields Cost-Savings and Profitability

Providers enjoy significant cost reductions when they move from typing, handwriting or transcription—or upgrade to Dragon Medical 10 from previous medical versions or
non-medical solutions:

Reduce the cost of documentation.

Eliminate transcription by speech-enabling the EMR, freeing up resources to focus more on patients to help practice efficiency. Healthcare organizations that are using Dragon Medical 10 today are significantly lowering their transcription costs by hundreds of thousands—or even millions of dollars—annually.

Support higher quality and more complete documentation.

Using Dragon Medical results in higher levels of reimbursement than notes built by “point and click” EMR templates.

Reduce denials.

More complete, accurate documentation improves coding effectiveness and provides richer detail per patient, giving physicians greater confidence to code at higher levels than with an EMR system alone.

Increase practice volume.

Faster, more accurate response reduces time spent on documentation, allowing clinicians to see more patients and increase practice revenue and profitability.

Minimum System Requirements:

• Intel® Pentium® / 1 GHz processor or equivalent AMD processor. Faster processors will yield faster performance – Dragon Medical 10 requires the SSE2 instruction set. Processors without SSE2 are “Intel before Pentium 4″ and “AMD before Athlon 64″
• 512 MB RAM or 1 GB RAM for Windows Vista™
• Free hard disk space: 2.5 GB
• L2 Cache: 512 KB
• Supported Operating Systems: Windows Server 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, SP2 or higher - 32 bit - Home & Prof, Windows 2000, SP4 or higher, Windows Vista™ or Windows Vista™ SP1, 32-bit, Citrix MetaFrame Presentation Server 4.0 or 4.5
• Microsoft® Internet Explorer 6 or higher (free download available at www.microsoft.com)
• Nuance-approved noise-canceling headset microphone.
• For Bluetooth wireless microphone support, please visit http://support.nuance.com/compatibility/
• A web connection is required for activation. During the install process the software checks to make sure your system meets these minimum requirements. If you do not meet the requirements, the software will not be installed.

Recommended Specifications:

• Intel® Pentium® / 2.4 GHz processor (1.6 GHz dual core processor) or equivalent AMD processor. Faster processors will yield faster performance.

Read about PowerMic II, the Speech Recognition Hand Microphone

Using a high-speed internet connection, AltaPoint Mobile connects directly to your office server. All information is displayed and may be updated instantly - without the need to synchronize your device later. Because the screens are specifically designed for your mobile phone, they are clear and easy to read.

View screenshots of the AltaPoint Mobile interface

Watch a video of AltaPoint Mobile in action

Supported Software

• AltaPoint Medical V9 - Available Now
• AltaPoint EMR - Available Now
• Medisoft - Available Now
• AltaPoint Medical V9 Pro - Coming Soon
• Lytec - Coming in March 2009

Try it free

You can now demo AltaPoint Mobile using a full set of demo data that is hosted on our ASP server. There is no need to download the demo or configure your computer for RDP. Visit our contact page and request our Altapoint Mobile access information. Experience how fast and convenient AltaPoint Mobile can be on a variety of hand-held devices. If you would like a 30-day trial download, we can supply that too.