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What is 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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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:
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Initial requirements
definition
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Hardware recommendations
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Recommendations for
supplementary third-party software
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Hardware and software
procurement
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Implementation of eIVF
portals
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Code customization to
accommodate organizational uniqueness
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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.
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Will ongoing maintenance be available?
Yes, directly through PracticeHwy.com,
Inc.
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