Dr. Donald Abrams, the Chairman of Ophthalmology at LifeBridge Health Krieger Eye Institute at Sinai Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, shares how the iPad-based EMA Ophthalmology increases efficiency and patient interaction while coding automatically.

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Donald Abrams: EMA Ophthalmology does have the benefit that it has been designed by ophthalmologists, and actually coded by ophthalmologists, so particularly the pre-testing areas where we document intraocular pressures and visions and refractions, really, really well done. I’ve never seen a product that was that easy to use.

We did suffer a significant decrease in productivity with our old system. Within a month of using EMA with Modernizing Medicine we were at 180% productivity. With EMA Ophthalmology, number one, patients kind of think it’s cool that you’re using an iPad, something that they use themselves at home as your method of documentation.

Also with some of the other features of EMA we can pull up the eye log and show them their eye pressures overtime. When a patient’s already in EMA Ophthalmology and things haven’t really changed that much, when you can select which pieces of the exam that you want to bring forward and which pieces of your impression and plan you want to bring forward, it virtually takes seconds to do that and in many cases it actually prompts you to remember that, “Yes, that patient is a diabetic and I did check him this time.”

And I think in many cases, a lot of our practitioners have been under-coding for years on paper for fear of not having charts that matched their coding and with EMA Ophthalmology it’s amazing how it codes automatically. The prescription writing through EMA Ophthalmology is absolutely unbelievable. I used to think that the most efficient way to write a prescription was to write it on a piece of paper and when we were using our hospital-based system to write a prescription, a lot of the physicians gave up and just let the technicians do it because it would take anywhere from two to 10 minutes to write a prescription through that system.

It was faster in EMA Ophthalmology to write a prescription through that than on paper even if you’re writing it at breakneck speed. And if you really think about how new EMA is to the scene, I can fathom how phenomenal it’s going to be in a few years.

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