Horizon Ambulatory Care™ is a Web-based, workflow-driven ambulatory electronic health record (EHR) solution that automates the clinical functions of a physician practice:

• Prescription management
• Diagnostic order entry
• Results reporting
• Encounter documentation
• Clinical workflow management

This electronic health record can be delivered incrementally and is an integrated component of McKesson’s Horizon Practice Solutions suite, which includes McKesson’s practice management system, Horizon Practice Plus™, for automating the administrative processes. The suite also includes RelayHealth^® for automating patient connectivity. In addition, the solution is integrated with McKesson’s Horizon Clinicals^® suite, providing integration with hospitals and integrated delivery networks through the electronic health record.

Benefits

• Improves the quality of patient care by empowering physicians with comprehensive, easily accessible information for making patient care decisions
  
  
• Promotes rapid physician adoption through a Web-based solution deployed in an approach that focuses on workflow, industry best practices and minimizing office disruptions
  
  
• Improves office efficiencies through a sophisticated workflow and messaging engine that streamlines clinical processes
  
  
• Enhances patient safety through electronic prescribing tools with integrated, real-time medication screening and access to clinical information at the time of decision-making
  
  
• Drives financial savings by improving medical necessity compliance and enhancing billing accuracy
  
  
• Improves patient satisfaction through secure messaging tools for patient interaction with physicians and their staff

Features

• The workflow management system provides the core rules-based module that manages all clinical tasks across the practice to completion to ensure that the right task is completed by the right person at the right time—driving high-quality, productive care delivery processes.
  
  
• The prescription management module automates the medication management and electronic prescribing process including connectivity to pharmacies and payors via EDI.
  
  
• The intelligent order entry and results reporting functions provide paperless order entry and results reporting for all ancillary services.
  
  
• The flexible encounter documentation module encourages adoption by all physicians through customizable templates built leveraging the Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine Clinical Terms (SNOMED CT).
  
  
• The solution is an integrated part of McKesson’s Horizon Practice Solutions suite, which includes Horizon Practice Plus for automating the administrative processes and RelayHealth for automating patient connectivity.
  
  
• As an integrated component of Horizon Clinicals, it shares patient information between the practice and the hospital, facilitating data sharing across care settings.

Horizon Ambulatory Care™ Release 9.60 is a CCHIT Certified^SM product for Ambulatory EHR 2006.