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Visionary Model For All EMRs
eNATAL is an advanced electronic medical record (EMR) with sophisticated
clinical decision support capabilities and practice aids that enables
clinicians to take better care of their patients. eNATAL
is everything that all EMRs should be.
Unfortunately, other EMRs don’t even come close to the potential
of visionary EMRs like eNATAL. All office-based EMRs, and many hospital-based
EMRs, are nothing more than just “dumb” fill-in-the-blank
electronic forms or templates. It is also certain that these other EMRs
fail to capture the workflow or address the unique needs of prenatal care.
Existing “generic” EMRs, no matter how much
they cost, even millions of dollars, are barely usable, if at all, for
prenatal care.
Complements and Peacefully Coexists with "Generic"
EMRs
Fortunately for prenatal care providers who wish to computerize
other aspects of their practice, eNATAL was developed from the start to
complement and coexist peacefully with any other computer application.
No matter how complex or resource-intensive other EMR, laboratory, dictation,
reference, or practice management applications may be, eNATAL only requires
that you can open an Internet browser at the same time you are using those
applications. With this small “footprint”, it becomes trivial
to switch back and forth between eNATAL and other office applications.
Since eNATAL is completely self-contained and not dependent on any other
application or information source, there is no need for expensive, fragile,
and complex interfacing between eNATAL and other computer applications.
This application independence makes particular sense when one realizes
that:
- obstetric billing is usually a one-time event,
- laboratory testing after the initial panel is infrequent,
- medication prescription is limited (well-known drugs that are safe
in pregnancy),
- the only demographic information absolutely needed by eNATAL is the
patient’s name and birthday,
- and finally, outside of perinatal providers, hardly anyone else needs
access to current prenatal information and no one much cares about viewing
the prenatal record once the pregnancy has ended (except lawyers).
Generic EMR & Prenatal Record Scenarios
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