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templated physician and nursing ED medical record that facilitates
documentation, improves compliance with charting requirements
and, when used in conjunction with EDITS Scan, is able to
be "precoded" to facilitate the work of coding staff.
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Benefits Summary
- Substantially decreases the need for physician writing or dictation
resulting in the saving of time and expense.
- Facilitates and standardizes physician and nurse data entry
to improve consistency and quality of documentation.
- Improves compliance with HCFA, CPT and JCAHO charting requirements
n Improves documentation to meet "medical necessity" and "APC"
requirements.
- Decreases medicolegal risks by facilitating comprehensive physician
and nurse charting
- When EDITS Charts are scanned using the EDITS Scan system, preliminary
CPT coding of levels of service and procedures is performed facilitating
the work of CPT and ICD-9 coders who will ultimately determine
the final codes to be applied.
- When used in conjunction with EDITS Data and EDITS Scan, transfers
data elements into the EDITS DATA program to streamline and automate
data collection. The EDITS Chart software program is in development
and is slated for release in the first quarter of 2001.
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