MedAffinity EHR for Education

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1 MedAffinity EHR Product Overview MedAffinity EHR is designed to make the documentation process feel as natural as possible, with an interface that looks, acts, and feels like a real document. With MedAffinity, students can focus on learning medicine instead of spending time navigating through a multi-screen, complicated system.

2 Key Features: Template Creation: Save As / Import PDF Create or modify templates in minutes, without writing a single line of code. Create templates containing both medical data like vitals or management codes, as well as non-medical information: guidelines on how to complete certain tasks, images and illustrations, and even notes from faculty to reinforce classroom instruction. Because an educational EHR should not dictate the way your faculty teach. Chart Summary Note Preview Move the mouse over any document in a patient chart to see an instantaneous, complete preview of that full note document. Students will begin using MedAffinity EHR to view simulation materials with close to zero intial training. Because an educational EHR should not get in the way of students learning how to care for people. Simulation Chart Reset After a simulation session is completed, simulation administrators can quickly and easily reset the simulation patient chart back to its original state. Because your on-staff simulation administrators and technical support should not waste time manually deleting data after each session. MAR + Scanning Launch the medication administration record right from the chart summary screen, allowing students to learn and internalize the process of recording medication administration. With built-in scanner integration, students will be able to confirm medications and patient identities without ever leaving the Chart Summary screen. Because education is about learning skills and processes, not software. Generate Patient Armbands Automatically generate patient armbands containing the information from your simulation patient charts, making it easy to change important simulation patient information or create new simulation patients as needed without having to create new armbands one at a time in an image editing program. New patients or information? Just hit refresh, and your updated armbands are ready to go.

3 Flexible, certified electronic health records software, tailored for education. Partnership with MedAffinity brings electronic health records to TCC healthcare students TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (October 2, 2014) Healthcare students at Tallahassee Community College will now be even better prepared to join the workforce, thanks to a partnership with Tallahassee-based MedAffinity Corporation. MedAffinity recently installed its electronic health records software, MedAffinity EHR, on computer workstations in simulation rooms at TCC s Ghazvini Center for Healthcare Education. The software will be used in hands-on educational simulations for students in respiratory therapy, nursing and other programs. "Through this partnership, TCC is able to put a state-of-the-art medical records system into the hands of future nurses, technicians and other practitioners, said Bret Ingerman, TCC vice president for information technology. MedAffinity is working with us to adapt the software to become an effective teaching tool." The software was launched during a simulation session for respiratory therapy students on September 23, They were able to view physician s orders, previous lab results and full patient history all electronically. John Elam, a clinical lab simulation instructor at TCC, said he found MedAffinity EHR very easy to use. Students seemed to agree. Our technology is ideal for education, where flexibility and usability are the most important qualities, said Wayne Watson, MedAffinity s vice president for business development. I ve been asking students what they think of the computer system, said Elam. They all are very positive about it because it is so much more realistic to have it. It s going to definitely prepare them for their real-life jobs. According to Watson, the software allows instructors to bring their current educational materials into the system as data-driven documents, so they don t have to change their curriculum or how they teach. Additionally, our single-screen, tap-to-select interface is easy and intuitive, which means students don t need to spend time figuring out how to navigate through an extensive series of menus, screens and pop-up boxes. Previously, students were using paper charts in their training simulations, although hospitals and physicians offices now primarily use electronic records. When Watson learned that TCC was looking for a training-specific electronic system, he offered instead to help the College implement MedAffinity s certified EHR. Carla Dormeus, simulation program manager, agreed that having experience with electronic health records will benefit students as they look for jobs after graduation. That s what they are going to encounter when they go to any hospital or doctor s office. Everything is going to go to EHR. The more we expose them to what they will encounter in the real world, the better. The nursing program will begin using MedAffinity EHR in its simulations on October 6, with other programs going online gradually after that. For information, contact Carmy Greenwood at (850) or greenwoc@tcc.fl.edu or Wayne Watson at (850) or wwatson1@medaffinity.com. For more information, visit

4 Chart Summary The MedAffinity EHR Chart Summary provides quick access to educational materials contained within the EHR with next to no training required before getting started. MedAffinity Preview lets users electronically "flip through" previous documentation by moving the mouse over the name of a note so students can begin accessing educational materials without initial training. With Interactive Quick-View Windows, students can perform basic documentation tasks like verifying orders or creating alerts without ever leaving the Chart Summary screen.

5 Administrative Tools The MedAffinity EHR includes administrative tools designed specifically for the educational environment, saving valuable staff time. After a simulation or classroom session, reset your patient profile by clearing unwanted documentation with the Clear Profile button. To progress through a session, simply save new documentation (such as additional orders or labs) to a patient profile with MedAffinity AutoChart Refresh, students see the new documentation immediately.

6 Document The MedAffinity EHR Document Interface looks, acts, and feels like a real document, so students can focus on learning medicine not software. MedAffinity single-screen documentation provides students with a certified EHR without the hassle of navigating through a multi-screen, complicated system. MedAffinity adapts to new curriculum content, ideas, and standards, which means your EHR does not dictate the way your faculty teach.

7 Document Monitor The MedAffinity EHR Document Monitor displays documents as they are saved into the EHR, allowing faculty to quickly review documentation authored by students. Search for documents authored within a particular date range in a particular course, authored by a particular student, and containing particular criteria. MedAffinity Document Monitor also lets faculty review in-progress student assignments, allowing faculty to provide students with immediate assistance before the student marks the note as ready for grading.