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provide 3 different data items collected and stored in the PMS database
“PMS or Practice management software used in medical practices. It is a software which deals with day to day operations using desktop software, client-server software and internet-based software.” It is used to perform the administrative and financial activities as is sometimes linked to EMR (Based on individual medical practice requirements). It collects data as follows:
1.Patient details and demographics
2.Billing details
3.Insurance payers details
4.Disease data details
There are integration and overlapping of PMS and EMR due to the requirement of EMR implementation as per US laws. Further HITECH (Health information technology for economic and clinical health) act requires patient details and disease to be captured electronically and presented to federal and state public health agencies.
Advantages of PMS are as follows:
To sum it up its software which can give all basic information about the patient and his relevant records like demographics, billing etc at one point.