Praxis EMR, founded in 1989 and originally released in 1991, has seen only three major version changes. This is in contrast to many template EMR systems who, having only started recently, are now marketed as “version 10” with standard features and rudimentary functionality.

As Praxis EMR has progressed and advanced over the years, it has done so with automatic updates, rather than announcing unnecessary version changes. Indeed, we are extremely proud of the fact that we have NOT been forced to constantly change versions. Doing so only disrupts our practicing clinics with largely marketing annoyances. Nevertheless, with new features of such momentous importance as those in the new Praxis 4, we feel that the version change is particularly appropriate.

Among many other new features, we are excited to present to you the Praxis EMR Knowledge Exchanger that we believe will transform Electronic Medical Records, as we all know them.

 ▪ The Praxis Knowledge Exchanger

There is no reason to limit yourself to templates.

The Praxis Knowledge Exchanger now couples the most powerful way to document medicine with the flexibility to incorporate Medical Knowledge from colleagues and experts to begin quality-charting rapidly, without ever being forced into templates!

Please review our short presentation on The New Praxis Version 4 Knowledge Exchanger.

www.praxisemr.com/knowledgeexchanger

Praxis EMR now offers the best of both worlds: A rapid start-up for new users together with a lifetime of constant clinical improvement through concept processing technology.

 ▪ Dynamic Clinical Practice Guidelines and Prospective Queries Version 4

Our vision at Praxis EMR is to empower physicians to practice medicine their own way, and to do so dramatically faster than with any other system. Over the years, many argued that the Concept Processor would not work with Clinical Practice Guidelines, because free text could not be queried.

We had eighteen years to develop a solution and, once found, we discovered that the opposite is the case. Not only are Clinical Practice Guidelines and Queries compatible with free text and freedom of expression by physicians, but free text results provide far superior CPGs and Queries than can any template.

In addition, we discovered that every Prospective Query is really a Clinical Practice Guideline in reverse, and every Retrospective Query is a Prospective Query in disguise.

The elegant Praxis solution presented here uses Agents (see link below) coupled with the Concept Processor to provide the most powerful Clinical Practice Guidelines and prospective queries in medicine.

Please see our technical paper on Clinical Practice Guidelines and Queries.

 ▪ Other Major Enhancements in Version 4

Praxis EMR Version 4 also welcomes a new advanced clinical scheduler!

· Advanced Clinical Scheduler

Most schedulers have been developed with billing applications in mind. As a result, they are extremely weak on the clinical side. The new Praxis 4 scheduler takes a powerful clinical approach to scheduling and combines it with all of the features and tools you need to automate your clinic’s office-flow.

Praxis 4 offers a completely redesigned, state-of-the-art scheduler that is linked to the Concept Processor, making it a truly intelligent clinical scheduler. If you ask a patient with a certain condition to return in two months for 30 minutes, it will schedule your patient for you automatically. From then on, the next time you have a patient with a similar condition, the Praxis scheduler will schedule the patient following your clinical instructions exactly, for 30 minutes, two months from now!

· Continuing the Praxis Commitment to Excellence

A great Electronic Medical Record requires years of clinical experience in order to learn the complex issues that clinics face everyday. Although template manufacturers argue differently, a great EMR cannot be developed for you overnight by so called ‘experts’ who presume to know how you think and practice your art of medicine.

Our eighteen-year commitment to Electronic Medical Records continues. In the end, it is not about computers or even software. It is about the medicine you practice, today and in the future.