CMS has recently revised coding requirements to include present-on-admission (POA) indicators for all diagnoses.
Beginning Oct. 1, 2008, Medicare plans to exclude from their calculation of payment certain conditions that are
acquired at a hospital.
Documentation begins at the first point of contact, which for many patients is the emergency department.
If nurses can work with physicians to produce the proper documentation early in the care process, pre-existing
conditions will be acknowledged and the steps necessary to ensure patient care quality can be taken.
HCdoc™ is a fast to deploy, easy to use, practical, and affordable tool for meeting these new documentation requirements.
A simple application that can augment any documentation system within days, HCdoc™ allows clinical staff to capture any
number of patient images using a web camera. Because deployment is so simple, HCdoc™ can be used with or without other solutions.
HCdoc™ generates PDF documents that are electronically archived and can be added to centralized HIS repositories.
HCdoc™ is a hospital-wide solution for documenting POA conditions from any workstation. Notes can be attached to
each image and the image quality will never degrade, unlike paper.
HCdoc™ Benefits:
- Easy and fast solution for immediate use
- Complements existent record
- Creates PDF documents for archival
- Image quality doesn’t degrade unlike paper
- Offers inexpensive facility-wide license
- Uses inexpensive Web Cameras
- Download and try today
Related extended services:
- ADT, COLD Feed, and other interfaces
- Automated Database Storage archival