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"Internet-Based"
Since eNATAL is Internet-based, it opens up an entire world of possibilities
to improve prenatal care. Also, since the Internet is a ubiquitous and
universally accessible network, eNATAL has compelling advantages over
local, wide-area network, or office-based electronic records.
- Access to prenatal records from almost anywhere with just a browser
- Access to prenatal records 24 hours a day, seven days a week
- Collaborative care across city, county, state, or national boundaries
- Easy-to-use and familiar Internet browser user-interface
- Unprecedented opportunity for patient online access to her own prenatal
record
- Eliminates the need for in-house servers, or configuring every computer
to accommodate proprietary software
- All eNATAL software is maintained and upgraded centrally, eliminating
the need for periodic maintenance and upgrades of proprietary software
locally
- Complements and coexists with other proprietary office systems
- Since eNATAL software is "rented", subscribers only pay
for the services they use without huge upfront licensing fees or long-term
commitments
"Prenatal Care"
eNATAL was designed from the very beginning to focus on only one area
of clinical practice, and that area is prenatal care. Rather than build
systems that have to accommodate the generic needs of all medical care,
eNATAL was free to create technologies that fill the unique needs of prenatal
care.
- The eNATAL application is completely centered around a patient's EDD
and gestational age rather than on calendar dates
- Information displays revolve around and automatically display gestational
ages eliminating entirely the need for an analog obstetric "wheel"
- Built-in, accurate, and easy-to-read digital obstetric "wheel"
- Care reminders are activated by gestational age rather than dates
(which is especially important when the EDD changes)
- Almost all eNATAL clinical data is tagged as to whether that data
is important in determining a patient's EDD
- An EDD Reconciliation view aggregates all clinical data whether from
significant dates, ultrasounds, history, or physical, and then calculates
and compares them to the "working" EDD and highlights discrepancies
- Default care plans for both routine and Risk-Activated Care™
are based on common prenatal care standards
- Text and graphic lists of patients are sorted by EDDs
"System"
In order to provide quality and consistent prenatal care every practice
must develop some sort of system to make sure that the care that is intended
is actually delivered. eNATAL provides such a system that provides structure,
checklists, and includes advanced clinical decision support features.
- The clinical data elements included in eNATAL are a superset of any
prenatal record system available, including ACOG's Antepartum Record
- All clinical information is structured, discrete, and completely legible
- What has been done in the past, what needs to be done today, and what
needs to be done in the future can be comprehended at a glance
- All abnormal values are dynamically highlighted and positioned so
that abnormal values cannot be missed
- Obstetric risks are automatically identified as a by-product of simply
recording demographic, flowsheet, testing, history, and physical findings
- Care plans for individual patients are created from both a routine
care plan designed for all patients as well as from Risk-Activated Care™
care plans that are specific to a patient's individual risks
- Persistent reminders of desired care items are automatically presented
to providers at the appropriate gestational age and are not removed
until those care items are completed
- All proposed care, whether routine or risk-based, must be validated
by a provider and the provider's entire clinical thought process is
date-time stamped and is documented in the record
- All test and ultrasound results must be "signed" by a provider
and that action is documented in the record
- Plus, all of the other benefits of any other electronic medical record
system
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