gUro (Urology)
Various HITECH Modules for Urology
gUro offers an easy to use, turn-key solution for Urology practices that integrates medical visits, procedures and billing in a single system. With gUro, offices can become more efficient and paperless sooner, leading to a higher return on investment.
- Problem forms, specific to Urology and many others unavailable in competing applications
- Patient questionnaires with Urology-related history, symptoms and medications
- Urology-specific physical exam and review of systems
- Pre-configured Urology diagnoses, orders and billing codes
- Intelligent billing and coding rules specific to Urology
- Electronic links to pertinent laboratories for pathology and clinical test results
Office Notes
Office Notes is a complete system tailored to automate your practice. Key benefits include recovering chart space and storage fees, optimizing coding, accelerating clinical decisions, improving regulatory compliance and risk control, and eliminating the paper chart.
Advanced Procedure Reports
Solution helps generate advanced Urology procedure reports that are simples, fast and highly detailed. Using gUro, physicians and staff can generate procedure notes, referring physician letters, discharge notes in 3 minutes for procedures like Cystoscopy and Urodynamics.
Image Management
Incorporates a browser based image manager capable of acquiring static images in real-time directly. Images are then stored for printing, labeling or remote retrieval and incorporated selectively into the final procedure report, discharge note, referral letter and other documentation.
Automatic Documentation
Includes discharge notes and referring physician letters.
Order Tracking
Physician orders are documented and sent to medical assistants directly from the note writer or from the automated order tracking system. This allows for better management of patient care and reduction of errors and omissions.
Laboratory Results Management
Nurses and physicians can receive and manage all laboratory orders from the automated results management system. Currently, there are interfaces built for many national laboratories. Most results are received immediately after a transmission is sent directly from the laboratory.
Scanning Module
Streamlines acquisition of patient medical history and allows staff to describe and route to physicians relevant information.
Paperless Faxing
Allows for sending, receiving and managing faxes electronically directly from inside gUro, ensuring referring physicians receive information the same day the patient is seen in your practice. The faxing module meets enterprise fax requirements including scalability, availability, security, compliance and cost efficiency.
Patient Portal
By delivering a fully integrated solution, gPortal establishes a direct link between your patients and your practice. The HIPAA-compliant online tool, allows patients to schedule and check appointments, receive bills and rest results, and request prescriptions refills among other tasks. The result is a seamless communication channel with your clients, saving time and effort to your staff.
E-Prescribing
Directly from the note writer or from the prescription module the physician can legibly and accurately write prescriptions and electronically send them directly to the pharmacists. gUro will check all insurance eligibility and co-pay level for each medication prescribed. Prescription renewals are sent from the pharmacy directly into the system as well, where they can be approved or denied and the pharmacy will receive the response electronically, eliminating the need to manage refills via phone calls or faxes.
E&M Coding
gUro provides E&M coding functions to give you the opportunity to increase revenue, while protecting you from a potential audit.
Task Management
Physicians and nurses can track orders, results, messages and tasks performed on the patient securely and easily. It also allows communication between the staff and the patients to be enhanced, while decreasing liabilities and costs. In addition, this feature enhances the office manager’s control over staff productivity.
Call Center Management
All inbound calls and messages can be managed in a secure and cost effective way. The messages are sorted appropriately to the physicians and allied staff. gUro stores messages inside the medical records for future access. This not only increases patient satisfaction, but also healthcare efficiency.
Appointments
Allows users to create work lists or appointment lists manually or using an interface to another system.
Voice Recognition Technology
Physicians and nurses can use speech recognition software. The software instantly converts what users say into text, eliminating the long turnaround times and costs of transcriptions. Using the latest medical terminology dictionary, users can easily achieve accuracy rates of up to 99%.
