The TouchWorks Order module provides fast electronic transmission of ambulatory orders to laboratory and other ancillary departments.

The Order advantage

• Improved office efficiency
  Using Order paper chart pulls and medical record-keeping overhead associated with lab order and result processing are decreased and turnaround time for common office tasks such as order and referral processing is improved.
• Enhanced decision making
  Clinical practice guidelines, personalized order sets specific to the patient’s diagnosis, and medical necessity checking are available at the point of ordering.
• Decreased costs and increased revenues
  Hosted services decrease hardware investment, and medical necessity support ensures that fewer charges are denied.

Features

• Order generation and routing to the appropriate facility
• Automated process for communicating patient orders
• Task lists for appropriate follow-up by support staff
• Personal favorites list for commonly ordered tests
• Personalized defaults for order sets
• Personalized order selection
• Online lists of patient orders
• Problems list management, including ability to link diagnoses to orders
• Default diagnoses and chargeable orders into TouchWorks