2 November 2005
PowerClinical's wireless software Healthspring has been boosted with a new Charge Capture module that allows clinicians to record their services even as it is being delivered at the patient bedside, such as during ward rounds.
Clinicians working in the busy and demanding hospital setting sometimes forget to record their services, resulting in expensive billing omissions and loss of revenue for the hospital.
Healthspring will please hospital administrators who can have confidence that incoming revenue is not being compromised by billing omissions.
With Healthspring, clinicians can enter their service records before moving away from the patient bedside, while it is fresh on their mind. The services are saved on the Healthspring database and updated on the hospital billing system by live or batch feed.
Healthspring's open architecture design allows it to fit in easily with any hospital-designated billing system, regardless of the billing system's age or technology. The information flows smoothly by wireless transmission from the clinician's handheld device to the Healthspring server, and then on through the hospital intranet to the billing system.
PowerClinical director, Dr Wilton Braund said, Hospital billing can be complicated, especially with visiting specialists. Healthspring simplifies all that with the service being entered only once and passed on to the required systems. The setup is very flexible and the service record can be delivered to the hospital billing system or private clinician's system, or domicialiary care service's system.
For example, after a surgical procedure, the anaesthetist and the surgical assistant may wish to generate a bill from each of their individual practices, yet confirm that they have billed for the identical procedures. Healthspring simplifies the process for everyone.
Healthspring has other functions which collectively serve to increase clinician productivity such as viewing patient lists, viewing patient records, entering observations, ordering tests, viewing test results, prescribing medications, as well as writing referrals and discharge letters.
