IPHCA Answers the Top Questions about e-net

Q:  Isn’t e-net just a practice management system? 

A:  No! The e-net network is the only FQHC enterprise health information network that offers enterprise practice management (EPM), electronic health records (EHR), and electronic dental records (EDR)!

Other networks may offer electronic medical records, but no other Illinois network offers the convenience and cost savings of integrating all three components into one health information network!

On behalf of its members, IPHCA selected NextGen® Healthcare Information Systems’ EPM and EHR products. NextGen’s software was designed to accommodate the unique needs of community health centers, and the EPM and EHR modules are a fully integrated solution. Through its parent company, Quality Systems, Incorporated (QSI), NextGen is also able to offer an EDR solution that dovetails with the NextGen suite.

NextGen Enterprise Practice Management is an award-winning system designed to deliver superior return-on-investment by streamlining front and back office administration, improving efficiencies, and reducing A/R days. NextGen EPM features customizable, encounter-driven scheduling, billing, and tasking processes that enable you to proactively manage your operation. The robust system also offers advanced claims scrubbing and editing features that result in increased claim accuracy, fewer denials and costly resubmissions, and quicker reimbursements.

The NextGen Electronic Health Records system continues to lead the industry with its wealth of innovative features and clinical content designed to fully leverage patient data and help providers efficiently document and manage care. With the most extensive out-of-the-box content in the industry, NextGen EHR is strategically built with industry standards that will allow you to practice into the future, and will help you achieve e-prescribing, data exchange, discrete data mining, and ease of electronic billing. Key benefits include increased revenue, expense reduction, reduced risk, and improved quality. NextGen EHR is CCHIT certified.

The QSI Electronic Dental Records module boasts state-of-the-art features that are considered best practice within the industry. In a recent review of dental software products, the National Network for Oral Health Access compared QSI’s EDR product with three other leading dental systems. NNOHA determined that QSI offers “the most robust integration of key data elements between the electronic dental and medical records when demonstrated with the company’s EHR product, NextGen. QSI’s many strengths included user friendliness, intuitiveness, voice activated periodontal charting, billing, patient care and treatment planning, training and support, security, and tracking and reporting.” Overall, NNOHA selected QSI as one of the vendors “more suited for the Health Center market.”

By implementing this integrated solution, IPHCA members will benefit from:

• a single medication module for clinical and dental, providing clinic-wide medication interaction checking

• one click access to a patient’s EHR record from EDR

• one system for clinical and dental scheduling/billing

• UDS Reporting Tool

• PECS Data Capture and Reporting

• increased revenue, decreased expenses, reduced risk and overall improved quality!