Less Paper and More Efficiency
We have seen it all before. Physician offices filled with stacks and stacks of paperwork. Regulatory agencies, specifically in California, requiring more and more documentation. Paper medical record folders, stuffed to the brim and piled high to the ceiling, with myriad clinical and administrative data. A patient chart must be made available to everyone who needs access to it -- administrative staff, nurses, physician assistants, and physicians.This means the time-consuming and often redundant process of searching for files, delivering files, tracking them, re-filing, and printing and faxing clinical and administrative documents.

Brown & Toland Physicians provides its community-based physician offices the opportunity to use the Allscripts Healthcare Solutions TouchWorks electronic health record (EHR) product. TouchWorks provides relief from the administrative burden of paper management and puts vital patient information in an electronic format.

TouchWorks can reduce medication errors, reduce lost charges and improve office workflow.The product integrates with GE Centricity Business and features several modules addressing important clinical functions within physician office practices, including:

• Note taking
• Dictation
• E-prescribing
• Transcription
• Scanning
• Documenting Patient Care
• Ordering tests
• Clinical results reporting
• Overall workflow

All community-based Brown & Toland physicians can access clinical test results using the Allscripts Touchworks EHR Clinical Results Reporting module. Clinical interfaces are currently in place with a number of Brown & Toland's healthcare partners, including:

California Pacific Medical Center
Fusion Diagnostics
Health Diagnostics
LabCorp
Saint Francis Memorial Hospital
St. Mary's Medical Center
San Francisco Perinatal Associates
Seton Medical Center
UCSF Medical Center
West Coast Pathology Lab