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MedHub Highlights 2009 Scheduled Releases v6.0, v6.1 & v7.0
As part of our ongoing commitment to constant system improvements and robust functional enhancements, MedHub provides three releases per year: 2 minor, 1 major.
For 2009, MedHub v6.0 & v 6.1 (supplemental releases) focus on client recommendations and overall internal system improvements. MedHub v 7.0 (annual major release) includes robust system enhancements that significantly extend system capabilities
Version 6.0 released April 2009
Version 6.1 released June 2009
Version 7.0 released late September 2009
Just a Few of the New MedHub Improvements for 2009:
Educational:
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Learning/Educational module creation tools
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Testing and Survey tools
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Full Medical Student and Allied Health professional functionality - ability to place other trainees on schedules for evaluation delivery, document delivery, demographic management. Extremely low cost universal training platform for institutions utilizing all functionality.
- Duty Hours:
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Enhanced absence approval process - notifies attending faculty responsible for a particular shift or continuity clinic of an absence request.
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New completely graphical duty hour input interface
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"Smart" duty hours pre-population
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Cross-referencing duty hours with home calls
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Duty hours statistics for improved PIF response - (Ex. longest work period over date range)
Learning Portfolios:
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Faculty access to journal entries and CV to generate 'Program-wide CV'
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Administrator access to populate journal entries
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Resident ability to include/redact entries in their dynamically generated CV
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Resident ability to export all portfolio activity at the conclusion of training
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Portfolio search capability
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Faculty mentor monitoring of goals and objectives
Scheduling:
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Full faculty scheduling functionality (service, shift/call & continuity clinic) for evaluation delivery, absence approval process, etc.
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Enhanced schedule navigation
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Individual resident schedule views
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Custom call schedule views
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Service-based clinic templates
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Full enhanced AMION/ONCall import for reimbursement to eliminate redundant effort when scheduling
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Public paging interface
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Faculty and medical student calls
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Faculty clinic scheduling
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Ability to change status of removed clinic to canceled
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Enhanced approval process for vacations, LOA's and away conferences
Administrative (Program Director/GME):
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Enhanced single sign-on LDAP authentication
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New Program director duty hour compliance views
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Evaluation ranking view
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Access to faculty, service & program evaluations reports
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Lab coat ordering workflow (GME)
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Enhanced functionality around dynamic generation of resident contracts and verification letters
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APR (Annual Performance Review) evaluation of faculty reporting functionality to determine faculty ranking, appointments and benefits
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GMEC - enhanced functionality around GMEC meetings, program accreditation information, site visits, etc.
Evaluations:
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Evaluation delivery based upon shift/call and OR assignments
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Automated evaluation simulation
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Program specific public evaluation link with photo directory
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Sharing forms in read-only format
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Reset status of completed evaluation to 'partially completed'
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Evaluation questions report
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Enhancements for automated evaluations to define activity range for trainees engaged in services that span multiple rotation periods
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Improved public evaluation link for patients evaluating trainees, faculty, program or hospital
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Additional evaluation type - self-initiated - 'resident of resident' (setting)
Conferences:
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Full Faculty CME documentation/tracking
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Batch modifications to conference schedule
Procedures:
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Program specific location list
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Ability to delete procedure logs
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Inclusion of ICD-9
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Enhanced patient encounter functionality/reporting
GME/Finance/Auditing Enhancements:
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GME physician payment tracking: For institutions near their cap the physician payment functionality would allow an institution to potentially claim reimbursement for trainees going to other non-hospital sites under certain specific conditions. The difference between the training physicians' remuneration and being able to fully claim the trainee on IRIS could be substantial.
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Fiscal Intermediary/Auditor log in: An auditor log in to MedHub that would make available to them all essential documentation in read-only format AFTER IRIS has been generated.
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A tool to determine overlaps with affiliated institutions.
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Internal billing functions: (separate from affiliated billing - VA, etc.) - Ability to define internal funding sources and calculate activity-based FTE for reimbursement to programs, DPU's or other internal entities.
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VA login to view bills and supporting rotational activity (setting)
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"Annual Program Reviews" - Internal ranking of residency and fellowship programs based upon internal metrics and quality measures defined by the institution and applied institution-wide.
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Institutional-wide quality measure comparisons by program/faculty
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More flexibility to allow institutions to define site visit and internal review attributes.
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GME defined alert workflow around LOA's, license expirations, etc.