ComChart EMR is under continually development, with new features being added on a weekly basis and minor improvements being added on a daily basis. Here is an abbreviated list of changes that have been added over the last several years. .

Some of the major new features recently added to ComChart EMR, are listed here.

Additional features include...

ComChart v9 is markedly faster with nearly unlimited capacity.

ComChart v9 can be accessed remotely, via a VPN.

ComChart v9 can be configured so that every printed order slip includes the healthcare providers signature.

ComChart v9 allows the user to create a PDF of a patient's chart, which can be emailed with password protection.

ComChart v9 can track 2 patient pharmacies, a local and a mail-away pharmacy. Faxed prescriptions can be sent to either pharmacy.

ComChart v9 can process credit/debit cards using a card swipe device. The device and contract can be obtained from www.atlasinnovation.com

ComChart v9 can generate a customized list of the "Most recent data" from your entire patient population, e.g. date (and result) of the patients' most recent HBA1c, mammogram, flu shots, screening stool OB, BP measurement. The chart of the "Most recent data" can be exported into an Excel spread sheet (for sorting and analysis) or printed to a PDF file. This feature, which is unique to ComChart EMR, will greatly facility your ability to target your medical care to those patients who must need it. It will also enable you to assess the "quality" of medical care you provide to your patients.

ComChart v9 can do a DOQ-IT diabetes search (more DOQ-IT coming in the future.)

ComChart v9 can be configured so that one person may delete another person's "To do" item.

ComChart v9 Progress Note can be configured to automatically "stylized" (adding underline and bold) key words such as "Medicine List, Problem List”

ComChart v9 has the ability to create a custom chart which includes disparate data from the patient's labs, flow sheet, VS and/or xray data. A chart can be created with a single click or it can automatically be incorporated into your Template Progress Notes.

ComChart v9 has the ability to create a custom lab chart, which may include any grouping of test results. The chart can be created, graphed, added to the Progress Notes or incorporated into your Template Progress Notes, all with a single click.

ComChart v9 has the ability to create a chart of the patient's vital signs, LFTs, CBCs, TFTs, electrolytes or Lipids. The chart can be created, graphed, added to the Progress Notes or incorporated into your Template Progress Notes, all with a single click. Add a chart of the patient's vital signs, LFTs, CBCs, TFTs, electrolytes or Lipids to the Progress Notes by choosing the appropriate option from "Select data for PgN"

ComChart v9 can print out a "wallet size" patient medical history (problem list, medicine list, allergy list, etc) for your patients.

ComChart v9 has the ability to add the phrase "Brand name only" on your faxed prescriptions.

Users may select one of several fonts for use in ComChart v9's Progress Notes.

At the click of a button, ComChart v9 will place an internet telephone call, using Skype VoIP, www.skype.com..

ComChart v9 can be configured so that it will automatically file labs as soon as they appear on your computer's hard disk.

ComChart v9 will interface to telephony computer programs that will call your patient's and remind them of their upcoming appointment.

ComChart v9 will allow you export your physician and pharmacy address listing in vCard, Excel and tab format, for subsquent importation into your computer's address book or Palm/PDA device.

ComChart v9 will allow you to export your patient schedule so that the data can be utilized by an automated telephone reminder program.

ComChart v9 will allow you to export the physician productivity report for subsequent import into Excel.

ComChart v9 will allow you to create your own "macros" for use in the progress notes. For example, you type "pttrtsm" and ComChart will type "Patient told to return to see me. Continue current medicines until then. Do labs before next visit. Patient told to call me if they experience any side effects from medications." You can create as many of these macros as you like.

ComChart v9 will allow facilitates complete document management, enabling you to store multipage documents, in almost any format, externally to ComChart .

ComChart v9 will allow you to create a PDF version of a patient's chart, for emailing. This can be password protected.

Carry your patient records on a Palm PDA or Pocket PC using the new ComChartOpenerMD. Information on the PDA may include the patient demographics, pharmacy number, insurance information, problem list, medicine list, allergy list, FSH, flow sheet data, labs, xray summary, recent progress notes and more.

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Some of the major new features recently added to ComChart EMR, are listed here.