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iPad and iPhone App

Ongoing in 2015

Kareo’s mobile app makes it easy to get out from behind the computer and engage with your patients. It is our ongoing commitment to improve our iPad and iPhone user experience with new enhancements each month.

• In-Office Messaging
• Push Notifications
• New Charting Experience
• New Calendar/Agenda Experience
• Adding New Patients
• Scheduling or Editing Appointments
• New Look and Feel

Messaging

Spring 2015

To increase communication efficiency, we are working on enabling full featured, in application electronic messaging between providers, office staff, billers, and patients reducing the need for extra emails, phone calls, and faxes. We’re also working to integrate patient portal messages and Kareo Intercom notifications, reducing the need to login to extra portals. Users will be able to view messages from any screen in the app without the need to navigate away from their current screen.

On the mobile applications, users can be notified via push notification permissions when a new message is received.

eRx & EPCS

Spring 2015

Kareo’s e-Prescribing feature allows you to quickly send scripts to pharmacies nationwide and receive refill requests right in your EHR. And e-Prescribing is now available on your iPad, so you can prescribe from anywhere. We will be working throughout 2015 on various improvements and brand new functionality.

We’re also very excited to announce that we have been working diligently this year to bring electronic prescribing of controlled substances (EPCS) to our customers in late spring/early summer 2015. To improve prescribing speed, we will be improving the pharmacy search capabilities, making it easier to modify an existing prescription and auto-filling the script to get you on your way.

Labs

Fall 2015

You’ve asked for it and we’re making it happen—major improvements to our labs experience. We will be focused on improvements including ordering labs, viewing lab results, associating un-matched lab results with patients in the EHR, and signing-off of labs. We are also working on improving the overall eLabs enrollment experience.

ICD-10

Ongoing 2015

Kareo will fully support your practice through this transition with tools that provide ICD-10 translation support directly within your EHR workflows. Our trainings and tools will walk you through every step of the new ICD-10 coding process so you can easily learn the codes as you work avoiding disruption to your workflow.

Filtering Notes & Templates by Specialty

Summer 2015

Specialty customization with filtering note types and templates will be released later this year. Users will be able to hide those specialty notes types and templates they don’t need. Administrators will be able to set and remove filters quickly from the admin section.

In addition to these features, we’re continuously optimizing every aspect of our EHR by improving design and overall usability and reducing clicks whenever possible.

As always, we will provide in-app and email notification alerts with release notes and training opportunities for every new feature as it is released.

Faster Charting

Notes Workflow Improvements

We made significant Notes workflow improvements so that you can easily view your patients' medical information and place orders directly within the Note. When you are charting, you now have the ability to view the patient's facesheet, previous notes, prescribed medications, lab results, immunizations, and documents. Furthermore, you can now place orders for medications and vaccines within the Plan section of the Note. But it get’s even better! You can also create your own custom text shortcuts to quickly enter frequently used phrases with in the Note, with just a few keystrokes.

Dashboard and Calendar Updates

Now you can manage and configure the Kareo EHR settings specific to your practice with one click. Our new left-side navigation allows you to easily scroll through all your Admin options, including updating your Practice Info, adding Service Locations, and managing your Calendar settings. Import and Export features are just a few of the many other things you can now access at with one click. Also now there is no need to leave your Note to access your documents. Simply hover your mouse over the Documents area, then with one click you can either View or Download.

Dashboard:

• Tabs for scheduled, in office, finished
• See patients’ contact information and reason for visit in expanded appointment view
• View record and create note from dashboard
• See and collect balance
• Priority items on the right side check list

Calendar:

• Color code Visit Reasons and personalize to your preference.
• Add rooms to keep track of where patients are through the dashboard.
• Setup provider-specific office hours and breaks that will automatically show up in the calendar.
• Configure holidays that the practice observes.

Mark as Error

Users now have the ability to mark Problems, Allergies, Notes, and Medications, as an error.

• The marked Problem will no longer show up in the Active List and will not appear when patient data is exported or in the Patient Portal. If you decide that you would like to restore a Problem back to active status, you can do that too.
• Now you can mark Allergies as an error. The marked allergy will no longer show up in the Active List and will not appear when patient data is exported or in the Patient Portal. If you decide that you would like to restore an Allergy back to active status, you can do that too.

Referral Management with eFaxing

Users now have the ability to better manage contacts when sending Referrals by eFax. Referral history will be stored, such as the provider’s name, specialty and fax number for future quick reference. You can easily remove a fax contact by clicking on the X next to the contact’s name in the dropdown list. You can also include your Referral Notes and the Patient’s Summary of Care.
Note: Kareo EHR cannot directly accept faxes. A provider must receive faxes to their current physical fax machine. Once a fax is received, then scan the document into the Kareo EHR (i.e., PDF, .jpg) then attach it to the patient’s chart.

Better Tailored For You

New Notes & Template Types

We have added several new and updated notes and templates. Now Urgent Care providers have a specifically-designed note type including templates that contain unique sections such as Diagnostic Studies and Medical Decision Making. There are also new templates and note structures to accommodate the Ob/Gyn specialty ACOG Antepartum Record support.
More Updates include:

• New system templates related to urogynecology, gynecology, colposcopy, and postpartum care
• Pediatric Well Child Visit Templates are now available for newborn up to 18 years of age
• Therapist Initial visit and Progress visit note types have been added
• Psych initial visit and progress note types were added
• Psych templates added

iPad and iPhone Apps

Kareo’s mobile app has added several new feature and functionality upgrades including login using a Touch ID, the ability to view, capture, and upload documents, the ability to visually annotate documents, and the ability to view and order immunizations. We have also implemented new views of the dashboard and updated views of patient history and face sheets.

Increased Functionality and Ease of Use

We’ve been continually enhancing Kareo EHR with many of the suggestions that you’ve submitted. Examples of these improvements include enhancements to our Notes engine, including Copy Note functionality. At Kareo, we are committed to continually improving our product based on your feedback.