eNATAL - What Sets eNATAL Apart form other Electronic Medical Records

Here are some questions you should ask before you decide to invest in other electronic prenatal records

What Sets eNATAL Apart from Other Electronic Prenatal Records?
When compared to eNATAL, neither electronic form-based prenatal records nor template-driven electronic prenatal records have the advanced clinical decision support features of eNATAL. This clinical assistance includes automated risk identification along with practice-customizable care plans for both routine and Risk-Activated Care™. These features are non-existent in ANY other electronic prenatal record.

Also, because eNATAL was designed from the ground up exclusively for use in prenatal care, the gestational age-dependent focus that permeates modern obstetric care also permeates the entire eNATAL application. For example, reminders of care are driven by a patient’s gestational age and not by dates on a calendar (since initial EDDs often change). And since determining the EDD is so important in obstetrics, every data element in eNATAL is tagged as to whether it could be important in determining a due date for display in eNATAL's EDD Reconciliation view. Even text notes are automatically tagged with the patient’s gestational age when the notes are created.

Be Sure to Get Answers to These Questions
Just ask these questions of other companies who say their electronic records can be used for prenatal care. If they say 'NO' to any question, then you'll know immediately that their systems were NOT AT ALL designed for prenatal care, or their systems do not approach the state-of-the-art sophistication of eNATAL.

Does your system have the intelligence to automatically identify obstetric risks as a by-product of just entering history, physical, testing, and demographic information?

Does your system allow practices to set up their own routine care plan of reminders for all patients in those practices, and does it let practices set up their own risk-based care plans as well?

Does your system bring together information from every section of the prenatal record, calculate EDDs based on that information, and then present a comprehensive view that allows providers to make completely informed decisions about setting an EDD?

If your system even has reminders of care, are they based on gestational age (rather than being calendar-based) and are the timing of the reminders automatically adjusted every time the EDD changes?

Can the data elements and care reminders in your system be immediately updated as evidence-based prenatal care guidelines are published (or do customers have to wait for years until someone incorporates those same guidelines into some paper-based form like ACOG's)?

Does your system have over 400 reminders of care that can be displayed at appropriate gestational ages based on a patient's individual risk profile?

Does your system have a set of QA reports that analyzes a practice's compliance in high liability areas like GBS, Hepatitis, Cystic Fibrosis, or Tay-Sachs screening?

Does your system offer patients online access to parts of their own prenatal record?

Does your system already include areas for entering Quad Screens, Maternal Immune Status, Birth Preferences, or BMI calculations?

Does your system display lists of patients by EDD, or by their choice of birthplaces?

Does your system let providers transfer to PDAs or PocketPCs key information about every obstetric patient in their practice to carry with them?

Can your system be used as a foundation for a common prenatal record throughout an entire community of providers whether those providers now use paper or electronic medical records?

And there are dozens more questions just like these. Contact us at info@eNATAL.com for even more tough questions that set eNATAL apart from every other EMR system.

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