Do your L&D and medical staff ever triage
and manage OB patients entirely without their prenatal records or
with outdated and illegible copies? |
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| Your
Answer: Yes, almost everyday, especially on nights and weekends
when paper prenatal records are usually locked up miles, or even
minutes, away.
With
eNATAL: Never. How can people
do that anymore? |
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Does your medical staff have 24-hour access
to their patients' prenatal records from their home, office, or
hospital? Does your L&D staff have immediate access to their
patients' prenatal records regardless of their gestational age? |
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Your
Answer: Of course not, but they should have.
With
eNATAL: Of course. Doesn't everybody? |
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Are the prenatal records
used at your hospital uniform from provider to provider and are
they always complete and up to date? |
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Your
Answer: Possibly, and absolutely not.
With
eNATAL: Yes and yes. How
else could you possibly measure the quality of care from provider
to provider? |
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Does your L&D staff
always find the copies of the paper prenatal records that your medical
staff says they had sent or brought over to L&D? |
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Your
Answer: No. Placement of blame as to why the paper prenatal
records cannot be found is always an ongoing "discussion".
With
eNATAL: What copies? |
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Are paper prenatal records
stored in L&D checked out to only those with a "need to
know", kept in a secure cabinet, and never received at an unattended
fax machine? |
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Your
Answer: Probably not. If not, your hospital will be in violation
of the HIPAA patient privacy regulations.
With
eNATAL: HIPAA security/privacy
compliance is built-in. |
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eNATAL is an Internet-based prenatal care system that will allow your L&D
and medical staff to securely access their OB patients' up-to-the-minute
prenatal records from wherever there is an Internet connection using only
a browser. As a by-product of this well-designed and secure digital prenatal
record system, a subscription to eNATAL services will also place your prenatal
records in HIPAA compliance now as well as provide a common, complete, legible,
and defensible prenatal record for your community that far exceeds paper
prenatal record systems including ACOG's.
