CRIS is an integrated chart completion and chart tracking system designed by medical record professionals. More than 40 functions covering all aspects of chart analysis, chart deficiencies, MD notification, and chart location tracking. Over 80 reports are available through simple menu choices. CRIS provides extraordinary flexibility within an intuitive, powerful framework that adapts to your needs while reducing staff time.
ANALYSIS provides an easy-to-read deficiency sheet, with the deficiencies and actions, written out English for the physician's use.
Your deficiency form can list detailed instructions or provide a brief memo to any MD.
Analyze in the natural order of the record. Analysis proceeds in the order of your specific medical record format. The user notes deficiencies as they show up in the record, easily assigning them to the appropriate physician without a confusing change of screens.
Bar coding available. Unique feature - Automatically creates and prints bar codes on the deficiency form. The bar codes are then used to automate updating CRIS after physicians work on their charts.
Compose, and revise at any time, your letters informing physicians of incomplete and delinquent charts.
Automatically addresses and sends different letters based on your choices: e.g., incomplete, delinquent, suspension, attestation, house staff, attendings. User specified delinquent and suspension periods.
Records all movement of charts out of the medical record department: incomplete charts, charts in processing, or charts in final file.
Locate charts through MD name, patient name, medical record number, location, date left department, or due date.
Chart reservations for special studies, "ASAP", and "As soon as complete".
Integrated bar code system. Portable bar code wands or attached wands.
Interfaces for Chart Request system.
Transcription
Tracks charts in transcription. Does not hold MD delinquent while chart is in transcription. "Chart age" is automatically updated for transcription period.
Provides reports for charts in transcription.
Interfaces for dictation and transcription.
Billing delays
Special features to track cases with deficiencies causing billing delays.
Prints daily lists and summary counts of cases with missing attestations. Allows user to enter dollar amounts for attestation delay and totals outstanding bills by provider, and provides total delayed billing days by provider.
Local area network
Can be run on Novell or MS Windows networks. File server does not need to be dedicated to CRIS.
Records user-defined quality assurance deficiencies while performing completion deficiency analysis.
Separates and tabulates the quality deficiencies by provider. Provides monthly and annual reports totalling quality deficiencies by provider and listings of charts with quality assurance problems.
Teaching hospitals
Options to link fully the Resident's and Attending's chart completion responsibilities.
Differentiates between charts assigned to residents, physicians assistants, physical therapists, nurses and other providers. Separate reports for house staff versus attendings.
All major reports allow you to separate house staff from attendings.
More than 100 reports with extensive options that allow you to customize which data will be gathered, which order it will be presented, etc.. Extraordinarily full-featured reporting capabilities.
Provides case by case listings and summary reports on incomplete and delinquent records by physician, by medical service, by house staff, by provider, by deficiency, by chart age (how long record has been available), for transcription, or for chart tracking.
CRIS's AutoReport allows you to define report profiles unique to the user, or day of week. AutoReports can then be automatically run at a set time of day, or night.