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What it is
A HIPAA compliant, secure electronic medical information system for obstetrics health care professionals that supports access via the web and/or personal data assistant (PDA) based data.

What it’s for
Individual solo practices, group practices or large institutions needing secure, ubiquitous shared access to obstetric patient antepartum information, irrespective of location or time. Reduce the time to access pertinent patient information. Improve decision making on patients in the office or away from the office with the latest information. Document patient encounters efficiently with easy to use and cost effective PDA's in the office, hospital or anywhere over the entire 40 week time frame of pregnancy care! Sync the data and securely share it with others in your practice as convenient. This is the ideal solution for health care professionals who need to quickly access and update not only their own patient information but need access to colleague's patient data when on-call.

What the hardware is
Your favorite Microsoft Windows PC or Apple Macintosh^® workstation or tablet computer, with a current web browser such as Internet Explorer 6 or Netscape Navigator^® 7 among others. This ability to work off a broad range of operating systems, workstation and browsers gives users alternate avenues to take to optimally meet their own security needs. The system also supports access and updating of the same patient information on intermittently Internet connected Palm Powered™ handhelds or smart phones. We support all major computing technologies but PDA's are especially attractive over alternative computing devices where low cost, reliability, battery lifetime or control of disease transfer vectors may be an issue. The OBSecure^® PDA based information is also accessible even when local power is not available making it ideal for true portability of your important patient data. Synchronization of the PDA data can be accomplished through a short occasional few second connection to the Internet via standard WiFi, Bluetooth, Infrared or the PDA cradle. As an example a thousand patients can be routinely updated on a PDA in several seconds over common Infrared synchronization hardware. No special hardware is required at your facilities. Encryption of the data is handled automatically and transparently so no complex virtual private networks (VPN's) are required.

What it costs
A simple one time flat fee per patient, per pregnancy provides your practice's staff unlimited, controlled access and updates to the information throughout the entire gestation period as well as through follow up visits. The ability to use our patent pending user friendly PDA interface with guided drop downs for patient encounters makes this the lowest total implementation cost solution available for quick and efficient antepartum obstetrics medical records keeping.

How it works
As it should! We provide secure access for your PDA’s and workstations over the internet to a centrally administered secure database that permits rapid and simultaneous interchange of information between multiple office staff members and physicians, without the overhead of a technical staff to support the infrastructure.

How it compares to the alternatives
OBSecure^® is a full featured medical records system specialized for obstetrics health care professionals that need to securely keep track of their patient information anytime anywhere. The data is supported both on the web and on PDA's via our remote services. Patient information can be efficiently entered using a wide variety of workstations and browsers and updated as needed from the PDA. The PDA or web interfaces can be used as desired. Simultaneous access and updating on the web or PDA by all of your practice's staff is supported.

Hundreds of individual items of antepartum obstetrics information are managed per patient in categories such as:

• contact information,
• demographics,
• menstrual history,
• past pregnancies,
• medical history,
• genetic screening,
• infection screening ,
• problem management ,
• medications,
• education and special counseling,
• initial physical exam,
• laboratory tests,
• routine visits,
• prosaic notes on conversations,
• gestational age calculations where needed, and
• exhaustive expected date of delivery calculations based on multiple sources of data.

OB Secure^® supports access and full bidirectional sharing of patient information via an Internet enabled browser on a Windows or MacIntosh workstation or via a PDA for health care professionals in a practice, based on fine grained security levels. The PDA does not require constant Internet connectivity and is ideal for situations where a reliable Internet connection can not be depended upon. It is cost effective for a broad spectrum of practice sizes ranging from solo practitioners and midwives to large clinics. We manage the databases and servers that provide fully secure two way updating of patient records on the web or in the field on PDA’s.

The OB Secure^® system permits sharing and updating of patient information everywhere with intelligent guidance on entries to minimize errors and save time. Updating of the PDA patient data and OBSecure PDA programs is automatic and transparent to the user, only requiring a simple tap of the stylus to initiate when desired. The patent pending user friendly PDA interface permits patient encounters to be handled and documented efficiently directly into your PDA not only in the office but anywhere and anytime. Always access your patient information to render the most informed decisions possible. Comments are typically available for every major category to document exceptions or notes making it easy to clearly document the details of a patient discussion for everyone in the practice as well as for future reference.

The OB Secure^® system provides reporting facilities that permit the generation of highly legible hardcopy reports at any time. The very latest hardcopy reports can even be securely accessed by authorized admitting hospital staff at the time of patient admission so that the hospital's history on the patient is totally up-to-date and does not have to stop at 36 weeks of gestation.

More Resources
For some more facts about the impact of PDA's and web based EMR's for improving patient care while reducing costs and improving efficiency, consider the following links:

Handhelds in Healthcare: A Convergence of Conditions and Cost Effectiveness