Description of Chartport

ChartPort is a suite of programs and utilities that facilitates access of scanned patient documents by NextGen EMR. The document scanning is performed with PaperPort, a low priced program from ScanSoft that interfaces with many types of scanners and digital cameras. PaperPort provides impressive image editing, manipulation and annotation capabilities and is an excellent front end for a document management system. The PaperPort program also acts as a printer allowing reports to be directly entered from any program that has a print command. The ChartPort utilities provide the link between PaperPort and NextGen EMR.

The process of adding a scanned document to a patients record begins from within a NextGen scanning template. A button on the template opens PaperPort to the patient folder, creating it if necessary. The user scans one or many documents belonging to the patient, dragging each one to the NextGen link at the bottom the PaperPort program. The user is prompted to enter a description and a date for each document, and the document information is entered into the NextGen EMR database. Before an entry is made into the NextGen database, the users NextGen credentials are verified.

The data entered into the NextGen database can be viewed within NextGen by placing a datagrid control onto one or more templates. The datagrid shows only documents that belong to the current patient and provides basic information about the document such as the date scanned, the date of the document, a brief description, and the file location on the system. The template can be programmed to allow selection of the document in the datagrid, and with the push of a button the document can be viewed in its viewer or sent to a printer.

ChartPort Pricing

The licensing for ChartPort is on a per provider basis meaning that any number of copies of the ChartPort software may be used by the named provider and the providers staff even if the provider has multiple offices. Note: A valid ScanSoft Paperport license is required for each computer that has PaperPort loaded on it. PaperPort is required only for document scanning and is not necessary for viewing the scanned documents.