Bariatric Office consists of three fully integrated programs:  

Program I:

An Office Management Program with standard reports and with a direct link for data transfer to the Surgical Review Corporation BOLD database.

The Bariatric Office Management Program is an Electronic Paperless system consisting of a series of screens to allow entry of basic demographics, prior surgical procedures, a full clinical evaluation with all aspects of the medical history and physical examination, entry of the presence and severity of ongoing co-morbid conditions, and listing of current medications, linking each medication to a co-morbid condition. Tabs allow easy selection of detailed screens for use by the medical team, surgeon, nutritionist, and psychologist.

Additional screens are designed to schedule and record initial clinical visits, preoperative evaluation, operative room experience, hospital discharge details, follow up clinic visits, reporting of postoperative adverse events, and tracking of telephone contacts. Appropriate screens have a single button to click to pass the required information to BOLD of the Surgical Review Corporation AND/OR to print any of the 8 Worksheets required by the ACS Centers of Excellence reporting.

Other Useful Features: The following applies to both general surgery and weight loss surgery patients.

• An "Appointment Scheduler" feature to keep track of appointments for any number of clinicians.
• Automatic generation from your template with the click of a button of preoperative clinic notes, nutrition assessment clinic note, psychiatry assessment note, admission H&P for hospitalization, operative notes, discharge summaries, and follow up notes. These are all stored within the database for immediate retrieval, review, and printing. Review of operative note allows review of any associated pathology report as well.  
• Automatic generation with the click of a button of follow up referring physician letters and laboratory reports to patients (can be mailed or sent by e-mail).
• Telephone Contact Log for entry of patient telephone calls, problem presented, and actions taken. Entries are date and time stamped. Entry can automatically be e-mailed to responsible bariatric surgeon.
• One click to review all clinic visits, weight changes and vital signs, recorded laboratory data, problems since surgery, and clinic reminder notes for the next clinic visit. When this screen is opened, if there has been a telephone contact since the last clinic date, a Button is colored yellow to encourage review.
• One click to review all adverse events recorded for a patient and their management and status.
• Easy medication entry with link to comorbid conditions. Selection of Medication is dose specific and mandates entry of dose frequency - like "Lasix 40 mg bid".
• A document management system (scanner required) that gives you the power to electronically store, organize, and quickly retrieve all kinds of documents (jpg, pdf, or MS Word doc files), including physician referral letters, consult reports, outside laboratory studies, EKG tracings and interpretations, PFT reports, cardiac stress test results, radiology x-rays and reports, patient pictures, consent forms -- essentially all materials that would thereafter allow a true paperless office system.
• Clinic Visit Schedule reporter, allowing viewing or printing of previous or scheduled appointments by day, week, month, or year.
• A patient photograpoh recording, viewing and printing system.
• Multiple reports can be run at any time. Special reports can be designed just for your practice.
• Speech recognition compatible using Dragon Naturally Speaking v 10.0 - allows dictation of text directly into data fields.

Program II:

An optional - Interactive Web Site with chat rooms, activity registration, and a program application section.

A WEB SITE is an optional addition to the Bariatric Office Program. The site is hosted through Visualzen and will be linked to your static IP address and URL or hosted by Visualzen. The web site template will be modified to suit your particular needs and desires. There is a password protected administrative section that can be used to manage patient logon, assign rights to other managers, and modify textual entries.

The site begins with a public access section with information on bariatric surgery that can include special features offered by your program, staff biographies, operative procedures, and outcomes. It can be enhanced with instructional videos as well. The generic template can be modified to suit each practice's specific preferences.

There is an optional, password protected patient subsection with the following options:

Forums (Chat Rooms)
Event Registration
Registration History
Patient Status
Patient Care Manual
My Profile
FAQ
Terms of Use

The Forums section can be set up to include your specific desires such as a forum for support persons, preoperative lap band patients, preoperative roux en Y patients, postoperative patients, an exchange forum, a recipe forum, help forum, etc.

There is a special feature for on-line applications, allowing patients to electronically submit an application for initial evaluation. Data includes demographics, medical conditions, medications, primary care physicians, insurance details, social and family history, including much information required by BOLD. 

Bariatric Office links directly with Crystal Reports for complex clinical and research investigation.

By purchasing Crystal Reports you can perform simple to very complex analyses of data stored within Bariatric Office. Review of data in consideration of research reports and publications is therefore easy and rapid. Complex evaluations allow sophisticated correlations.