What is a Provider Portal?

eIVF Provider Portal simplifies healthcare practice by integrating multiple administrative, communications, and research functions into a single, easy-to-use solution.  It gives you an unprecedented single view, and unprecedented control, of your entire healthcare practice - from each and every person you treat, to every partner, program, process and risk that can make or break your business.

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How does eIVF track a patient, member, employee or org

anization?
eIVF maintains a master index of all "entities" (patients, organizations, providers, etc.). Each type of entity is stored in a separate table. For example, if you define an entity as a "patient," he or she will be registered in the Patient table. If a person is defined as a "provider," he or she will appear in the Provider table. As roles progress, for instance, from being a person to an employee to an injured employee, additional entries are created in relevant tables in eIVF.

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How current is the data within the system?
With eIVF, you'll have the information you need, when you need it. The system allows you to optimize updates to suit your organization's specific requirements. Ranging from monthly to near real-time, information updates are as responsive to your information priorities as the rest of the system. Consider just one example - multiple clinical observations taken on a person during a single visit. Two different blood pressure readings (e.g., standing and prone) taken in a matter of minutes by a clinician can be readily entered into Clinical Data Repository. Each observation remains unique for the lifetime of the person because it is stamped with a universal time stamp for that individual.

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Can I track a single patient, member or employee through the entire continuum of care?
Yes. You will have a complete and unified healthcare picture of every patient or employee for whom you're responsible. eIVF merges financial, clinical and case management information about any person you select. It lets you evaluate that individual's healthcare history, prognosis and the associated costs in numerous ways. Because you can view the complete picture, you can determine what must be done to ensure optimum healthcare at a reasonable cost. You can also drill down into your organization's healthcare data for an integrated picture of your partner organizations (medical services providers, insurance organizations, etc.) and every type of claim, transaction and outcome in your healthcare environment.

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From a technical perspective, what types of data can the system handle?
eIVF can store date, time, character, numeric, currency, image and video data related to an observation. An observation can contain various clinical imaging data such as MRI, CAT and digital device data.

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Is it possible to define customer-specific fields using eIVF?
Yes. eIVF can be customized to your organization's specific needs. In fact, enabling you to incrementally develop a true "fit-to-need" solution is one of PracticeHwy.com's primary goals. Not only do we want to ensure that eIVF can address your unique business needs, we also consider it paramount that your system can grow and evolve to accommodate business, technical and regulatory changes.

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How could eIVF be customized?
Where customization is most needed. As part of the deployment process, the data model at the core of the system, is routinely customized and extended to reflect your business and information realities. The net result: a system that provides you with a trusted information source supporting your core business goals.

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Is eIVF compatible with other tools and operating systems?
Yes, eIVF's open architecture eliminates compatibility problems while supporting growth and change. The system is designed to run on a variety of operating platforms, such as Windows®'95, '98, NT and 2000, and database systems. Plus, the open-ended reporting and analysis capabilities allow business analysts within any organization to be highly creative. They can tailor reports to particular business problems and manipulate data with a range of tools.

 

We plan to make Internet browser access to charts available on Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) such as Palm Pilots will be offered soon.

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I am a physician outside the USA. Can I subscribe to and use eIVF?

At this time, eIVF is available to physicians in the USA and Puerto Rico only. We comply with US Federal healthcare security standards, US export laws, and local tax authority requirements, which make us unable to export eIVF at this time. However, If you're a physician outside the US, you can view the eIVF Demo to see how this Web-enabled application offers doctors the first step toward creating an Online Medical Record.

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What is a Patient Portal?

eIVF Patient Portal features secure, reliable point-of-care healthcare information, office news, and the ability to interact with physicians, clinical staff and other experts within the healthcare organization.  

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What types of information can eIVF handle?
Unlike other products, eIVF handles all of your organization's financial, clinical and administrative healthcare data. What makes this integration especially powerful is its depth and breadth of scope. For example, the Clinical Data Repository is not just the usual administrative or financial claims repository. It is a fully integrated database capable of storing the most detailed clinical information you can supply, organized by person, medical visit, time of day, prognosis, outcome, and a multitude of other details that paint a complete and cumulative healthcare portrait of an individual. With this wealth of clinical information (as well as financial and administrative data) at your fingertips, you can understand the totality of a person's healthcare profile. Thus, you can begin to help manage his or her health, not just care.

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Is there a limit to the amount of data eIVF can handle?
Practically speaking, no, because eIVF is scalable and portable. Technically speaking, the size of eIVF is determined by the limitations on the size of a database "instance."  However, PracticeHwy.com believes that the system's capacity is huge, many thousands of gigabytes. (A gigabyte is one billion characters and a terabyte is 1,000 gigabytes.) In short, eIVF is sufficient to handle the data needs of almost any healthcare enterprise – with room to spare.

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How does one locate information about a particular person or other "entity"?
Thanks to the unique tracking system (see Question 2 above), it is very easy to obtain comprehensive information about any person, member, employee or organization. That's because the same ID is always used for an entity. Imagine, for example, that you want to view all the clinical data for a person named "Chris Smith." You simply enter Ms. Smith's unique ID, then index the appropriate table in the Clinical Data Repository software module. You will see a table of all clinical observations available for Chris Smith, regardless of date, time, setting, visit, etc.

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What level of analyst can use eIVF effectively?
All levels. As with any sophisticated tool, a seasoned analyst will achieve optimum results. But even the less sophisticated user can derive substantial value. In fact, maximum utility is designed right into the software. From a desktop workstation, your organization's Business Data Administrator can modify data access to match the different skill levels of your different business analysts, without major rework or reprocessing.

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How difficult is it to utilize my existing data?

Our technical staff has the experience, technological sophistication, customization capabilities and commitment to meet your current and future needs.  Just tell us your needs and we will work with you to develop a solution.

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Is eIVF scalable?
Highly.

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Will eIVF  become obsolete once I complete loading it?
eIVF was designed to be upgraded as new technologies are developed.

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Who handles installation and deployment?
PracticeHwy.com has partnered with leading systems integrators and engineering firms to offer comprehensive services and solutions worldwide. Healthcare and insurance, systems integration and engineering services include:

  • Initial requirements definition

  • Hardware recommendations

  • Recommendations for supplementary third-party software

  • Hardware and software procurement

  • Implementation of eIVF portals

  • Code customization to accommodate organizational uniqueness

  • Ongoing maintenance

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Do standard reports come with the purchase of eIVF?
Yes. PracticeHwy.com staff of highly experienced healthcare analysts is constantly producing reports and analytics. These provide immediate value and also act as templates for your own enhanced reporting. In addition, your in-house business analysts or one of PracticeHwy.com' systems integration partners can create customized reporting packages. Their data content and presentation are tailored to your business issues and operating procedures.  

 

Will ongoing maintenance be available?
Yes, directly through PracticeHwy.com, Inc.

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