Managing your Practice

ICS has two primary components: EHR and PACS which are fully integrated unlike other offerings in this category. The EHR is full featured integrated practice management and billing system with a full featured PACS. The PACS pulls from the integrated practice management system, offering even more features to keep your practice organized and moving forward.


Designed around new standards that have emerged to better exchange data; it is scalable to the modalities and standards of tomorrow. It has both internal and external e-mail as well as alert systems and post it notes that pop up in the places where you need reminders. ICS also has web based data access for referrers.

What Is Important To Your Practice?

  • It is a secure document repository and can store film, voice, or paper in digital format. The file name and location are encrypted for safety and permissions can be attached to each file. The advanced digital document format with advanced compression technology and high performance value makes even poor quality faxes look good.
  • The solution offers easy Query/Retrieve to Interpretation, Reporting and Sign Off to Billing and Insurance. The CRM (customer relationship management) functions help to personalize your patient interactions.
  • ICS handles everything DICOM and allows for annotation of DICOM and other images. ICS is General Purpose Work List Capable which is a must for any practice involved with imaging.

In addition, ICS is modular – not that one purchases each module, but some of the features can be turned off to allow for the use of an existing program or system already in place at your office. For example, an existing scheduling or billing system can be integrated into ICS in most instances. This allows you to integrate ICS into your practice without having to eliminate of some of the systems that you already know and have.

ICS supports you, your patients and your referring colleagues and is designed to conform to your methods of practice rather than making you conform to the software. This means that it is full of features for you to use or not.

 

You will always own your data with ICS. Multiple copies will exist not only in your offices but off site so there is no fear of data loss. Recovery processes and systems are in place at a U.S. based level 4 co-location facility, so all data remains intact when catastrophes occur and the patient data can be restored and onsite within 24 hours or less. A lost internet connection will not interfere with your practice because while ICS is web based, the primary server is located inside your office and the need for an internet connection is to facility information transfer into and out of your facility. A practice’s data is stored in an easily transferable format so if you ever wish to change vendors, merge or sell your practice, all the data will be easily ported over and usable.

Other Features include:

  • ICD-9 and CPT codes updates as they become available either on a quarterly or annual basis

  • Prescription and lab interfaces customized to your region; when a national service allowing interfacing becomes available, you will have the option to interface with it without additional cost.

  • Drug look-up

  • Drug interaction checking

  • HL7 interfacing for billing companies means you have your choice of clearing house options and billing methods.

  • Evidence based guidelines for improved patient management.


What does this mean for your practice?
  • Reduction in overhead and resources required to manage, distribute, and maintain hardcopy reports correspondence, notes and films- The fully integrated EMR & PACS archiving & viewing functions help facilitate a completely paperless environment through embedded document scanning & digital document upload capabilities. Our program is flexible enough to easily customize screening, images,templates, reports, and forms.
  • Productivity Improvements - ICS increases efficiency in clinical practices through its fully integrated environment. Workflow is status driven, passing all required data from one functional area to the next without re-entry or cumbersome interfaces. The right data is presented to the staff at the right time.
  • Better Resource Utilization - ICS provides a host of robust order entry, scheduling, flagging, tracking & management reporting tools that enable any practice to maximize output of its valued personnel.
  • Anytime, Anywhere Access to Information & Images - ICS is built on a web-based platform that allows secure and privilege based access to medical information & images by system users from anywhere.