Top mental health EMR provider
releases enhanced functionality to streamline workflow for psychiatric
hospitals and other inpatient behavioral health facilities
ANNAPOLIS, MD (
SharewellNewswire.com – July 20, 2012 ) –
ICANotes, LLC, the leader in online behavioral health records, today announced program
enhancements developed specifically for hospitals and other inpatient mental
health facilities. These enhancements consist of:
ê Clinician
Reminder Sheet – A new report functions as a clinician dashboard to documents
due or overdue as well as documents which are incomplete or lack electronic
signatures. The length of time a clinician has to complete required notes may be set by each individual
facility.
ê Electronic
Medication Administration Record (eMAR) – The eMAR provides a complete
electronic workflow to enhance nursing efficiency while ensuring medication
charting accuracy and safe medication management.
ê Clinician’s
Orders – This area has been expanded to include all types of orders utilized by
inpatient settings, including a variety of detox protocols, activity and
restriction orders, and dietary orders. Nurses are notified when a new order
has been entered.
ê Verbal
Orders – Nurses may enter verbal orders and alert the physician to sign them electronically.
The order sheet
documents who gave the verbal order, who entered it, and who signed it.
ê Initial
Evaluations - Complete
Assessments can be set up so that the portions of the evaluation that are to be
completed by each separate discipline are highlighted. Each facility has the
option to designate which parts of the Initial Examination their clinicians must
complete. This lets ICANotes help facilities meet documentation needs unique to
their specific inpatient practice and to comply with documentation requirements
mandated by their surveyors or state laws.
ê Treatment Plans - Clinical
reminders can be set up to remind a clinician when a patient’s next Treatment
Plan is due. Multiple clinicians can add information to the patient’s Treatment
Plan, and the complete Comprehensive Treatment Plan may then be compiled and
saved as a clinical note and electronically signed by each clinician.
Developed
by a psychiatrist, ICANotes was launched in 1998. Since then, ICANotes has continuously
evolved its functionality to maximize its usefulness for all behavioral health
professionals. Based on a rapid development platform, ICANotes releases program
updates every week. The software design is carefully controlled by the
company’s founder and clinical director, Richard Morgenstern, MD, a
psychiatrist with an in-depth understanding of how clinicians work. The result is an intuitive EHR that requires only
minimal training.
" ICANotes is being rapidly
adopted by inpatient behavioral health organizations, and the clinician’s need are
at the forefront of every programming decision we make,” stated Dr.
Morganstern. “We never assume that we know what is best, we prefer to be guided
by our valued interactions with our users. We have worked closely with a number
of facilities to design and test these new features which are intended to
automate workflow for the inpatient setting.”
About ICANotes
Now in use
by over 3000 providers nationwide, ICANotes has documented more than 3 million
patient encounters. As the most feature-rich web-based electronic medical records
solution for psychiatry and mental health professionals, ICANotes is well known
for its unique button-driven charting capability. The program enables
clinicians to quickly create thorough, personalized narrative notes in minutes
without typing or dictating. ICANotes is clinician-centric and infinitely
scalable, reliably meeting the needs of solo and group practices, hospitals,
and large agencies for more than 13 years. For more information on ICANotes,
visit www.icanotes.com.
Press Contact – Sandy Crowley
- Email: sandy@icanotes.com
- Telephone: 443-569-6018
