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The Emergency Department Information
Tracking System (EDITS) software programs have been designed to
address a variety of crucial information management challenges faced
in operating contemporary emergency departments.
These programs are cost-effective solutions that provide
an immediate return on investment and do not involve major capital
or staffing expenditures. The EDITS system consists of three software
programs that can be linked together to address specific issues:
EDITS Data -- Comprehensive
data capture from any existing ED record. This program
facilitates centralized, non-redundant, comprehensive, rapid, manual
data capture of every useful element in the ED medical record. In
the process of data capture the benefits that accrue include markedly
improved charge capture, the ability to profile departmental and
provider function, the ability to capture detailed quality improvement
data, and the ability to assign CPT, ICD-9 and hospital "room" charges.
These latter capabilities make EDITS Data the ideal solution to
the challenges presented by the Medicare Ambulatory Patient Classification
(APC)-based Outpatient Prospective Payment System. This program
was the original of the three linked components of the EDITS system
and, in the past, has been referred to simply as the EDITS software.
This component is now referred to as "EDITS Data." It has been operational
since 1993. EDITS Data is currently helping over 50 hospitals to
optimize their data capture initiatives.
EDITS Scan -- Scanning of
all currently existing ED medical records. The scanning
of paper ED medical records allows them to be "electrified" and,
in the process, achieves many of the benefits of an electronic record
while maintaining the ease of use and simplicity of a paper record.
These benefits include substantially less expensive chart production
and printing costs, the ability to eliminate all paper copies of
the ED record and much of the work associated with them (alphabetization,
filing, storage, retrieval and destruction). In addition EDITS Scan
creates the ability to easily transmit records electronically (auto
fax, e-mail, ZIP drive, etc.). EDITS Scan can be linked to EDITS
Data or it can function as a stand-alone program.
EDITS Chart -- Facilitated
physician and nurse charting with the capacity to "precode" the
medical record with CPT and ICD-9 codes as well as hospital charge
elements through the scanning process. The challenge
to consistently produce ED physician records that comply with mandated
charting requirements has been an ongoing struggle for the emergency
medicine community. Through a specially structured paper record,
used in conjunction with the EDITS Scan program, mandated physician
charting is facilitated, and at the same time, selected data elements
in the chart are captured. These data can serve as the basis for
the automated assignment of hospital "room" charges along with "precoding"
of records with CPT and ICD-9 data for authentication by a trained
coder. EDITS Chart is currently in development.
EDITS Pricing
All of the EDITS software programs are licensed on a "per patient"
basis. The only other ordinary fees owed to CQ Systems in association
with the use of EDITS programs are on-site training costs and any
custom programming. Pricing is subject to change without notice
but will remain as agreed upon in the Memorandum of Understanding
signed by CQ Systems and the licensee. Fees are due quarterly and
are based on interrogation of the software for encrypted usage counts.
Hardware is to be purchased by the licensee from their vendors of
choice.
EDITS Data
The price for EDITS Data is $0.35 per patient. If EDITS Data is
used in conjunction with EDITS Scan, there is a $0.10 discount on
the combined cost of the two programs (i.e., cost for both is $0.85
per patient)
EDITS Scan
The price for EDITS Scan is $0.60 per patient.
EDITS Chart
The price for EDITS Chart is $0.25 per chart. It is required that
EDITS Scan be in operation to use EDITS Chart.
Discounts
Discounts are available for multihospital clients with more than
100,000 visits per year who develop the capabilities to internally
support their own installation and training needs.
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