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6/27/00 Seattle, WA - Practice Partner, a leader in the ambulatory medical software industry, today announced the availability of Practice Partner Clinical Benchmarking, a unique service that provides specific quality of care indicators for individual physicians and group practices benchmarked against a national database.
Practice Partner Clinical Benchmarking tracks quality of care indicators for a variety of conditions, including asthma, coronary heart disease, heart failure, atrial fibrillation, cerebrovascular disease, diabetes, and hypertension, as well as preventive services. These indicators are compared against a national database of nearly 400,000 patients and 400 physicians that belong to over sixty practices located in 24 different states, so that users can measure their activity against a statistically significant comparison group. Users of this service receive quarterly reports that compare individual or group practice patterns against key practice benchmarks and identify practice issues or factors that needed to be addressed.
Practice Partner, in conjunction with Practice Partner Research Network (PPRNet), will offer this service exclusively for users of its electronic medical record system, Practice Partner Patient Records, to help practices monitor and improve patient care.
"Improvement in clinical care is one of the most important objectives of any good computerized clinical system," said Bruce Kleaveland, Practice Partner's Senior Vice President of Sales & Marketing. "By combining the data collection capability of Practice Partner Patient Records with the power of the large practice-based database managed by PPRNet, Practice Partner Clinical Benchmarking enables users to measure and deliver quantifiable clinical improvement in their practices."
In addition to receiving the quarterly personalized reports, users of this service receive free memberships to PPRNet, a unique community of Practice Partner users who participate in practice-based research projects. Participants will also be eligible for CME credits for reviewing their personalized benchmarking reports and for taking part in certain PPRNet activities.
Additional information about Practice Partner Clinical Benchmarking service is available at www.Practice Partner.com
Seattle-based Practice Partner is a leader in the development and marketing of innovative Electronic Medical Records and Practice Management products for medical offices and large health care enterprises. Practice Partner, founded in 1983 by Dr. Andrew Ury to provide comprehensive software solutions for office-based physicians, is one of the pioneers in electronic medical records software. More than 1200 offices use Practice Partner software, and more than 700 of them use Practice Partner Patient Records. With over a decade of experience with the EMR (Practice Partner released its first version of Practice Partner Patient Records in 1987), Practice Partner has created software products that are finely honed to the real world needs of physicians, nurses, and office professionals.
The Practice Partner Research Network (PPRNet) is a unique concept in the field of practice-based research. PPRNet is the first U.S. research network to connect practicing physicians through the use of an EMR (electronic medical record) system. A longitudinal patient database comprised of data from EMRs from participating physicians throughout the United States provides the basis for Practice Partner Clinical Benchmarking service and other PPRNet research activities. PPRNet's design protects the confidentiality of patients and providers and requires minimal time commitment for busy physicians.
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