Praxis is an Electronic Medical Record program based, not on templates, but rather on a more advanced and flexible technology called Concept Processing that learns on the fly as you practice medicine. Praxis instantly generates patient encounter notes, prescriptions, handouts, procedure reports, admitting orders, letters to referring providers, and electronic super-bills, following your instructions exactly. Praxis stores X-Rays, laboratory reports, EKG's, demographic information, medications, and everything normally kept in the patient record. Praxis takes your office paperless. Praxis automatically schedules your patients, customizes your health maintenance, sets reminders, generates flow charts, laboratory downloads, and growth charts, the list is truly endless.
Think about all the details where you are currently wasting time in paperwork, and you can bet that Praxis can do it faster, easier, and better. The Praxis Concept Processor revolutionized electronic charting over 18 years ago, and continues to be a leading innovator in todays Healthcare IT marketplace. Through the Concept Processor, PRAXIS reduces your charting time, and saves you money. You write lengthy, detailed chart notes, prepare letters to your referring providers, write procedure reports, constant prescriptions for your patients. Why should you duplicate your writing efforts with every patient you see? Let the Concept Processor write those lengthy, repetitive notes for you in your own words as it has learned them from similar patients you've seen in the past. Most of the time, you know exactly what you wish to say: putting those thoughts into words is the problem, and it is here that the Concept Processor comes to the rescue. It is almost your alter-ego, your best partner. Templates confine you. Praxis frees you from filling out a form with someone else's words and using endless pick lists to detail encounters. Your mind works extremely fast. Why should your writing be slow and tedious?
"Doctors don't like being forced to enter data into rigid fields repetitively and that's exactly what they are reduced to with templates" said Clayton Reynolds, MD, FACP, FACPE, a medical quality expert. "It's the inherent limitations of template technology and constraints of pick-lists that turn physicians into mere technicians. Medicine is very much an art form and no two doctors practice the same way" Praxis Electronic Medical Records is based on a unique neural-network technology called Concept Processing that documents each case progressively faster and better by learning from the provider's previous encounters.
"Praxis EMR has by far the best note generator on the market" said Daniel Griffin, MD, winner of the 2006 HIMSS Davies award for EMR implementation" At issue, though, was the perceived time investment required to start using an EMR without pre-set templates. Now, a new Praxis user receives an immediate infusion of medical knowledge enabling a rapid launch into electronic charting. The medical knowledge acts like a window into another expert's mind. However, unlike a template, once the new knowledge is imported, it adapts and grows exponentially following the doctor's own thinking process. "It's very exciting!" says Griffin.
The new Praxis Knowledge Exchanger provides a first-time user with specialty-specific methodologies and texts to begin charting almost immediately. It also enables seasoned users to benefit from the knowledge of fellow practitioners, share their own clinical knowledge, and contribute to the advancement of medicine.
Medicine is an art, and no two doctors practice the same way. You are unique in the way you treat your patients, and handle your cases.
However, for every practitioner there is a bell-shaped curve representing a frequency distribution of case types. Some cases are so rare that you most likely have never handled them before. The majority of other cases become repetitive, and are found on top of this bell shape curve.
The Concept Processor brings forward the closest previous encounter in relation to the one you are seeing right now, and instantly puts that case in front of your eyes.
There are only three possibilities of cases: The closest encounter could be identical to your current encounter (not an impossible event). It could be similar to your current note, or you could be dealing with a rare new case.
If the closest encounter is identical to your present one, you are done! Praxis EMR will generate the new encounter instantly in the same way as you did it before. It will also print or fax your prescriptions, generate instructions to your patients, instructions to your staff, admitting orders to the hospital, procedure reports, work or school excuses, and every other document you require. all effortless and instantaneous... And, it will optimally code the visit and create a super-bill. All this happens in the blink of an eye!
If the encounter is similar but not identical, you simply modify the differences from the closest case using hand-writing recognition, voice recognition, or keyboard. The beauty of Concept Processing, however, is that it memorizes all your changes. So, when your next encounter falls between two similar cases, your editing is cut in half, and then by a quarter for the next case, and then by an eighth....etc. In fact, the more you use the Concept Processor, the faster and smarter it becomes. In time, Praxis becomes you - a true mirror of your mind.
Even rare cases are no match for Concept Processing. These are usually combinations of SOAP Elements, which in themselves are not rare. If the text of each element is saved for a given type of case, you'll have elements available to use with other cases, even though the other cases may not be similar overall.
The role of the Concept Processor is to reflect the human thought process, accurately, and eloquently, using a physician's own words and methodology. This can be done extraordinarily fast; faster even than dictation and speech recognition, and far faster and more flexibly than a template.
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