I actually use Phreesia and have been for the last 21 months. I started my practice Aug 24th 2009 and Thnk that Phreesia was up and running three to four weeks later!
Here is the deal:
You can design the questions. There are certain things that are required (demographics, some of which get preloaded when you add the demographics to AC). Also The nice thing is that when you buy the integration between Phreesia and AC, when you load your schedule, it automatically loads into Phreesia. So when patient A, b , c come to the office your staff puts in your pass word and the schedule is loaded already and you jst pick the name of the patient to check in. they fill it out, and they sign it. The hippa form is on there. I worked with phreesia so that the it knows when the last form was signed..so if greater then 12 months, it automatically makes them resign the hippa form.
Now for the questionaire, you can limit or expand it as much as you want. I do sports med so for knee pain it asks certain quetsions, for head injury/concussions it asks a different set of a questions, etc. . .
The issue comes in when you have someon there for two problems. SO in my case if someone comes in for knee pain and shoulder pain, the questionaire will only ask about "pain" in general once they ask the specific questions of clicking, weakenss, etc. . .trying to work with them...so i am not sure how it would work with HTN and DM..it can ask all the questions, it just doesn't send them onto the form. . .if you call and they say otherwise please let me know. . .
In general this is an amazing alternative to those five page written sheets where you can't read half the patients handwriting anyway. . .which is a joke. . .and i have medicare patients who all do the form as much as they hate it. . .they are working on a online version so that patients can check in from hoem but that release won't be till late 2011 or early 2012. . .
yes i have extensive knowledge on phreesia cause i use it daily and have been using it and have worked with them a lot on tailoring my phreesia to my practice. . .for the first 14 months of practice i was ALL ALONE without a desk person . . .
the nice thing is that you can either have it print out to your default printer or a PDF. ..mine goes to a PDF on my server.. .my front desk person saves all the phreesia things for new patients (or patients who haven't been in for 6 months) into the imported items...then if it makes the patient do a new hippa form, she clips the hippa form page and saves that into our charts as well. . .
we also have a form on all new patient visit and on once a year with hippa that if i send you to PT or work with the school Athletic trainers, that they can pick if i am allowed to talk about the injury to the school ATC's/club atcs...YOu can have any form on there...
the one thing i wish it would let me know is have a consent form where even after checked in if i am gonna do a procedure it would let me go into the system and say injection or whatever proecedure form and allow them to sign it...then that can be a pdf and can save me time and money from getting a signature pad and all that jazz.
okay i think i babbled on this so far...please ask any specific questions or we can talk on the phone as well!
mbfoot: tell dez kdawg says hello and get your sorry butts back to chicago!
