What is PCS ?   Complete patient record keeping Easy access to patient file Return on Investment Data Security

Feature List    Patient Registration Examination Prescription Writer Patient History Billing Appointment Scheduler Bed Management Reports

Complete patient record keeping: Every visit of the patient is treated as an individual encounter by the system. Thereby, each encounter is traceable and easily accessible in the form of reports.

Easy access to patient file: Locating the patient file is simple – just select a patient name or key in few characters of the patient’s name. Since the patient file is clearly organized, user can quickly pinpoint the exact information needed. There is no more page by page searching of paper files. Information within the automated files is complete and legible.

Return on Investment: The most important aspect to computerization of a business model is to get monetary returns on these investments. PCS offers this in multiple ways. The system costs the same as most paper template documentation. But you get immediate data retrieval, data analysis, data interchange, data security, legible records, legible prescriptions and medical supply tracking. All these add up to substantial reduction in costs.

Data-mining from the Prescription Database helps in rational use of drugs and defining Drug Procurement Policy, thus reducing Inventory costs. Pharmacies of Nursing Homes will know what-to-store, how-much-to-store and at what costs by a simple click of a button.

Another significant feature offered by PCS is that it counts the number of patients seen by each doctor in a given period of time. This can help Health Managers in re-scheduling doctors' timings and distribution of patient load in a even manner.

Data Security: Patient Care System provides clinicians access to their domain of information, i.e., a doctor can view only his set of information. Additionally, another level of security allows nurses access to only a fixed set of patients data, and not all. This ensures that PCS provides security at all levels and wards off unauthorized access.

Patient Registration: After just a few minutes of entering basic information for a new patient, PCS automatically generates a unique identifying number called Medical Record Number. As the patient file grows over time, or the care becomes complex, previously time consuming documentation now takes only minutes with the unique Medical Record Number to trace patient information. Patient registration process is a comprehensive task which covers all the requisite information like insurance company name, insurance policy name, employer's name and emergency contact information. But to make this function more speedy only few fields are mandatory to get the patient registered with the system.

Examination: The Examination module covers vital parameters like Chief Complaints, Temperature, Pulse, Blood Pressure and lab investigations, which help the doctor to prescribe the suitable medicines.

Prescription Writer: By selecting the combination of diagnosis the system will suggest the suitable drugs, quantity, duration, timings and instructions associated to that drug. In addition, for each diagnosis selected, it automatically displays special instructions for doctor and patient associated with that disease. A master file of diagnosis' is maintained wherein a Standard Treatment is defined for each diagnosis. Doctors can change the suggested drugs on per case basis depending on the allergies, age group and other patient specific factors

Patient History: Patient history is broadly categorized in three parts: Past History, Family History and Personal History.

Past History mainly looks into the patient's disease history and medical treatment he has undergone. Personal History covers the patient's daily routine and habits. This gives an idea about the patient's background. Family History captures the information about the patient's family members and their disease history. This is a very helpful parameter to decide weather the patient is effected by hereditary diseases.

Billing: Patient Care System allows the user to bill in two different ways; Automatic and Manual or both at a same time. Automatic billing charges according to the consultancy charges of the doctor, every time a patient visits the doctor. In addition, it adds room charges and other miscellaneous charges (if applicable). Manual billing is user defined, where a user can define his own bill heads with room charges and other miscellaneous charges.

Appointment Scheduler: The system has a flexible scheduler for doctors. It assists nurses in fixing appointments, besides having the facility to check for impending appointments on any particular date. Doctors can see the Patient Queue on his terminal and can also see a list of Patient Checked during that day.

Bed Management: For In-Patients, Bed-Management module takes care of possession of rooms and their charges accordingly. It maintains proper chart for patient stay in the hospital, type of room acquired, room shifting and also shows the list of vacant rooms for each class.

Reports: Every module of the system captures relevant data of patients during entire treatment cycle. This data can further produce various kind of MIS Reports and Case Studies. Patient Care System has a long array of reports. User can print the information needed at any point of time in the form of well designed reports.