Features

 

These are the major features of NOSH ChartingSystem, out-of-the-box:

Standard databases incorporated into NOSH ChartingSystem:

• SNOMED-CT database integration
• CPT database integration
• ICD-10 database integration
• FDA drug database

Chart features:

• Active issues list
• Medication list
• Supplements list
• Allergy list
• Past encounters
• Organized document handling system
• Automated task reminder and alert system
• Ability to create personalized templates for the HPI (history of illness), ROS (review of systems), and PE (physical examination).
• Ability to create personalized electronic patient forms for the patient portal.
• Online scheduling with individualized visit types

Provider ordering features:

• Computerized provider order entry (CPOE)
• E-Prescribing (integration with rCopia Dr. First; enrollment is needed to use this service and the cost is separate from the NOSH ChartingSystem as a hosted service)
• Checks for medication interactions whenever a new prescription is made
• Patient instructions with Vivacare online patient instructions (enrollment is needed to use this service, which is free)

Practice management features:

• Export claims to HCFA-1500 format as a PDF document
• Export claims as a batch or single print image text file that can uploaded to a claims clearinghouse (such as Office Ally, which is free)
• Ability to track remaining balances to a claim
• Ability to track revenues month-to-month or year-to-year
• Health supplements documentation and inventory tracking
• Vaccine documentation and inventory tracking
• Ability to create tags for encounters, messages, and documents
• Ability to query your patients based on age, gender, issues, diagnoses, medications, supplements, and tags

Patient Portal features:

• Secure messaging to the provider or the provider’s assistant(s)
• Schedule appointments online with the provider
• Automatic appointment reminders via email or SMS
• Review lab results and other health-care related documents in the patient’s chart
• Patients can fill out personalized electronic forms (registration forms, social history forms, anything else you like!) that directly integrate in the patient encounter with a click of a button

Communication features:

• Electronic fax integration with MetroFax or Ring Central (enrollment is needed and the cost is separate from using NOSH ChartingSystem as a hosted service)
• Generate clinical summaries via a Continuity of Care Record
• Print a partial or entire chart into PDF format, or directly fax the document
• Export health related information in a standardized format called the C-CDA (Consolidated Clinical Document Architecture), advocated by Blue Button Plus
• Import documents via uploading PDF’s or faxing

Pediatric features:

• Growth charts
• Immunization tracking
• Well child check documentation
• Vaccine information Sheet printouts

Future features:

• Remote scanning
• Electronic lab interface with PeaceHealth Labs

Extensions:

NOSH is designed to be modular, so some features can be “turned off” if you don’t need it.  Examples of some features in NOSH that can be extended:

• Medicare Medication Therapy Management module
• rCopia ePrescribing