Answers Clinical (EHR) Solution

Establish a Certified Electronic Health Record (EHR) with Answers^TM.

The Answers^TM Clinical Solution connects your staff, residents and management with up-to-the-moment information about your clinical operations. It offers a comprehensive Electronic Health Record (EHR) for each resident under your care. Specifically built for Long Term Care organizations, Answers EHR flows through the continuum of care for a 360° view of your resident’s entire medical profile.

A 360 View of Your Residents

The SmartChart included in Answers is your one stop shop for a fullview of your residents’ Electronic Health Records. You and your staff will be able to toggle between all of the clinical areas in Answers to quickly and efficiently reach the information you are searching for without navigating menus. You will also enjoy the tight integration of information between all of the clinical areas that will assist your staff in having the latest information across departments and disciplines all from one integrated chart on-screen. Staff can be instantly alerted to important changes regarding the residents under their care through the embedded Alerts & Messaging function.

Everything you Can Do on Paper & More

Answers EHR will be your staff’s first line of defense to finding, entering and tracking information about your residents. It includes a complete physician’s orders component with full eMAR and eTAR capabilities which enhance your clinicians’ ability to accurately track med-pass assignments by resident, shift, floor and more. You will also be able to easily track infections, incidents, falls, wound care, TB Screenings, immunizations, vital signs and weights. Your staff will have the flexibility to enter ID notes for each resident from various screens. Pre-populated templates are available to help your staff reduce the time it takes for proper documentation, while still providing the necessary information for the resident’s records.

Electronic signatures ensure that accountability and security remains within your operations. These signatures allow for the signing of everything from physician’s orders to ID notes. Electronic signatures are password protected and can only be entered or removed by their authenticated owner. 

If your organization really wants to get rid of paper, Answers offers an attachment function which allows your staff to securely save scanned files to each resident’s profile. Retrieval is easy due to the organization of your files by logical tabs and user-defined types.

Freedom to Work Your Way

Answers is designed to be flexible and allow each organization the freedom to personalize their system to their particular needs. This flexibility flows through the entire software solution and is a core benefit for your organization. In the clinical side, a user defined forms capability allows your organization to create and maintain comprehensive assessment forms that you can adjust to your facility’s specific needs. Although it is pre-built with 14 assessments, any number of additional assessments can be entered to define the categories and formats that work best for you. You also have the ability to update the MDS and resident EHR from these assessments. You can even set your own scores for each assessment question in order to come up with your own outcomes benchmark.

Answers can automatically generate Care Plans based on the RAP/Trigger for your residents. This will save time and ensure that all triggered RAPs are identified and addressed in accordance with sound clinical practices and provides for a systematic flow of information between the MDS, Care Plans, and Point of Care collection tools.

Completing the Circle of Care

Answers EHR also includes a new Point of Care solution for documentation and monitoring of ADLs, Care Plan items, vitals and more. This system is available to CNAs via a simple to use touchscreen and also offers bird’s eye views of daily charting activities for supervisors and DONs. It automatically updates the MDS and is integrated as part of the full EHR for each Resident.

A Great Tool for MDS Coordinators

Answers also provides an intuitive and comprehensive MDS format that can be autopopulated from our Point of Care application to track ADLs and from many other areas of the system. There are also interfaces to other popular Point of Care tools. MDS Coordinators will transition to the Answers MDS system easily because it looks and feels just like a paper MDS.

Answers provides you with the most seamless paper-to-electronic experience possible and the following additional benefits:

• RUG scores can be re-calculated at any time and the system assists you in determining what your ARD should be to maximize your billing potential.
• All of the information from the MDS is integrated to the Billing module for processing.
• Your CMS 672 and 802 reports are instantly available based on your latest assessments and can be maintained manually for any changes in condition between assessments.
• Answers MDS also automatically schedules both OBRA and PPS assessments for you.

 Stay Up-to-Date in Compliance

Answers is maintained to be current in all compliance issues at both the Federal and State level. The software is released approximately every six months with new regulatory requirements as well as extensive enhancements.

AOD Software is also committed to the transition to MDS 3.0 and to meet the Federal Government’s future certification criteria for EHRs.

Expect Customer Support Excellence

AOD Software believes in extreme dedication to customer service which is applauded constantly by its clients throughout the entire US. Clients offer their praises for AOD: 

“When I called I received perfect service, your staff was very nice, polite and helped me get the job done.”

“In my 22 year career, I would rate AOD as the best listening software company!”

“I sure do love the way that you work with your clients to bring great improvements to the software.”

“We can honestly say we are extremely satisfied with both the application and (even more important in the long run) the support.”

“Just like our IT staff whom I deem as the ambassadors of ‘Excellent Customer Service,’ your staff member displays those same qualities. I applaud great customer service.”

What Is The Power of One?

The Power of One refers to the advantages your organization receives from having one unified and integrated system that runs the clinicals, financials and operations for your community. AOD Software offers the most comprehensive and integrated system for long term care.

Other vendors claim they have integrated solutions, but what they really mean is that they “interface” to other systems which is not the same thing. An interface is a fragile link among different systems from different companies. These types of arrangements are not the same as having a truly integrated solution with a core that is built, maintained and supported by a single vendor.

Look only to AOD Software to provide the most complete integrated long term care software solution.

Read more about the Answers Clinical Electronic Health Records (EHR) solutions by downloading the brochures on the right column.