Thanks for joining, hopefully more will join soon!

[Aamer]

Thanks for joining!
Here's a question to get us going- anyone using dragon naturally
speaking or other voice input software with athena? If so, recommend/
not recommend, thoughts?

[lisa2]

We have tried the regular dragon program, not the medical version. It works OK, however you will need to make several edits as it does not recognize allot of the medical terminology. We have ordered the Medical version, I will let you know how that goes.

 

Thanks,

 

Lisa Martinez

Administrator

General Vascular Surgery Medical Group

www.vasculargroup.com

510-347-9134

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Sent: Tue 5/24/2011 1:52 PM
To: California Athenahealth Users
Subject: Thanks for joining, hopefully more will join soon!

[Brian McDowell]

Just for a point of reference, I do have the medical version, Dragon 10.0 and it really works well for me.

[Aamer Hayat]

thank.... if anyone is interested, i have a medicare annual wellness visit template and forms that we've been using (until athena gets one going, which they are working on).  it's been a great revenue maker (20 minutes- $164 payment; for primary care that's pretty good). so if anyone wants, i can share it with them.

now to check out the medical version of dragon.

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Regards,

Aamer Hayat

COO

avecinia wellness center

(O) 559-450-7295

(C) 312-498-2066

www.avecinia.com

www.facebook.com/avecinia

www.twitter.com/avecinia4health

www.avecinia.blogspot.com

avecinia wellness center is Fresno's premier integrated medical clinic and wellness center. Our mission is to partner with our patients to help them attain their optimal well-being. We do this by integrating the practice of internal medicine/primary care with different, proven health modalities such as health/weight management, acupuncture, massage therapy, aesthetic services and state of the art technology such as our patient portal and electronic health record. To learn more or to make an appointment, visit www.avecinia.com or call us at (559) 450-7299. You can also read our blog: avecinia.blogspot.com, become our fan and/or sign up for our monthly e-newsletter on our facebook page: www.facebook.com/avecinia and follow us on twitter at www.twitter.com/avecinia4health.

[Karen Mullen]

Yes!!  I’m interest in the form…..please attach.

 

Thanks,

Karen

 

Karen M. Mullen

Chief Financial Officer

Daniel J. Wallace, M.D., Inc & Wallace Rheumatic Studies Center, LLC

8737 Beverly Blvd., Suite 302 & 301

Los Angeles, CA  90048

kmu...@wallacemedical.com

(310) 652-2284 Ph

(310) 855-9309 Fx

[Aamer Hayat]

See attached:

1) Our intake form/patient summary

2) The Cognitive Acuity Test is a Geriatric Depression Screen questionnaire that helps us answer the cognitive impairments/depression screening part of the visit

3). The USPTF screening checklist is a guide, our PA (who does the visits) just goes to the USPTF site and in a minute can generate a more specific one for the patient.

4) We left the Advanced Care Planning question in because it's good for us to know.

5) We also have available a blog that we let patients read so they can understand what the visit is and isn't.

What we do is use a specific template that has a section for vitals, pulls their medication list, current provider list.  The PA has a discussion with the Patient, then we just scan the summary into their chart.

Athena is currently working on incorporating aspects of this and the visit template I created in Athena. I just talked to them last week about what we do.  They will probably have something by the end of the year if not earlier. 

Although at first patients didn't understand why we were having them come in and stuff, everyone has liked it and it's given us a chance to catch up with the health of our medicare population and get paid for it.