Directors, Administrators, and Organizational Return on Investment

Software tools for emergency department efficiency Organizational Benefits:   • Improves quality and completeness     of discharge records and process   • Accelerates revenue and captures     revenue that might otherwise be lost   • Reduces risk of medication errors     and patient litigation   • Assists organization in meeting     regulatory compliance   • Extremely cost competitive     compared to other larger systems

Discharge 1-2-3 provides an organization with an effective way to decrease medication risk, patient litigation risk, and length of stay in the emergency department, urgent care, hospital or clinic. The software provides physicians and staff with a tool to produce accurate and complete patient-specific instructions with a clinical ease and customization that is unsurpassed. Because the software has an extremely high level of clinical acceptance, you can be confident that it will indeed be put to use by the clinical staff in your department or hospital. It is also technically sound, robust, and integrates well into existing systems and long-term IT implementation strategies.

The Case for ROI with Discharge 1-2-3

Computerized discharge documentation with Discharge 1-2-3 provides the following organizational benefits to deliver solid and measurable ROI:

  • Reduces risk of litigation and medication errors by providing patient-specific instructions, typewritten prescriptions, and documentation. The patient is provided with one copy and a second signed copy is put on file. It is legible, clear, accurate and assists the organization in meeting regulatory compliance.

  • Reduces physician time on non-revenue generation. The time consuming and repetitive task of writing similar instructions and scripts over and over by hand is eliminated. This cuts hours of physician time per shift and makes them available to turn their attention to other patients or tasks. Studies have shown that on average a physician can see an additional 7.5 patients in a 12-hour shift.

  • Accelerates and increases revenue generation. Patient length of stay is decreased as well as addressing reduction of patients who left without being seen.

  • Increases patient satisfaction by allowing the physician to spend more time with the patient and providing them with clearer instructions for completion and follow-up of their visit. Given the clarity of the instructions it is also not unusual that patient compliance improves thus resulting in better long-term care. In addition, high quality of care and patient satisfaction with that care will insure positive referrals and willingness for the patient to return for additional services.

Special Features of Discharge 1-2-3 that make this ROI possible

Clinical acceptance is very high - unsurpassed clinical ease of use in design provides a high level of physician and nurse acceptance. In short, the staff are willing to use it and learn how to do so very fast. This high level of usage means that the system is not just sitting in a corner collecting dust and not simply a wasted expense as are many other time consuming software solutions.

Fast and easy patient specific customization without compromising time means more meaningful documentation for the patient, and tighter protection against litigation without compromise of throughput. Let's face it, legal protection is only possible if the documents are specific to the patient's care. In other systems you may need to type and that kills patient throughput. Speedy single-click designs allow fast specific documentation on the fly not available in other systems. This makes it possible for physicians and staff to do their very best without compromising valuable clinician time.

Physician customizable protocols allow physicians to create their own custom discharge protocols that can be recalled in seconds. This feature is an extraordinary improvement on time and allows higher physician and patient satisfaction with the resulting documents.

Discharge 1-2-3 is enabled for both optional touchscreen and wireless tablet PCs to provide even further speed, accuracy and productivity enhancement. The software was designed from inception to be touchscreen and tablet compatible. It is ready for immediate use with any such device.

Electronic database records retained for all discharged patients provide useful information about every discharge, including a way to quickly recall patients who return for lost work excuses, prescriptions, or instructions and print without need to recreate them.

Additional Information on Medical Error Reduction and its Importance

For further information on medical error reduction, its importance, and how it is addressed by
Discharge 1-2-3, request our Return on Investment White Paper under Demo Request as well as visit the Useful information area and the link:
http://www.audio-digest.org/pages/htmlos/10117.3.4266080737417927446/EM2220