Advanced Data Systems

About Advanced Data Systems
Advanced Data Systems Corporation (ADS) has supplied healthcare software systems since 1977, making them one of the leaders in developing Electronic Health Records, Practice Management, and Radiology Information Systems. Their software is used by over 30,000 doctors and healthcare providers across the country and in a variety of medical specialties and practice sizes. They pride themselves in staying abreast of changes in the medical industry, thus giving them the ability to adapt and change their software to meet the needs of the medical professionals who use their products.

Practice Management and Medical Billing Software
ADS’s MedicsPremier is the ultimate Practice Management and Medical Billing software, offered via client server for practices that prefer to have their practice management system on the premises, or via ASP/SaaS for practices that want to leverage the ease of use and accessibility of the Internet. As ADS’ first medical software offering, it has over 30 years of development and progress behind it, making it a high quality and robust solution. MedicsPremier features include:
Automated billing with comprehensive EDI capabilities: Fully-integrated collections, revenue cycle management, and billing, as well as e-claim submission, eligibility verification, remittance, and online claim status tracking.

  • Insurance eligibility verification: Fast and easy patient insurance confirmation, saving you time when verifying insurance eligibility.
  • Automated patient work flow: A customizable and wide-ranging control and supervision of patient flow in your practice or medical facility.
  • Patient information management: Complete and intuitive demographics windows, giving you access to patient information.
  • Advanced appointment scheduler: Whether for a single physician or multiple physicians, MedicsPremier Appointment Scheduler gives you a full view of your facility and scheduling options, including available rooms, times, days of the week, etc.
  • Integrated document scanning: Scan insurance identification, communications, and any other type of documents right into your patient records for easy access and retrieval
  • Management reporting: A comprehensive collection referral, financial, and productivity reports that are easy to generate and customize.
  • HL7 compliance: MedicsPremier integrates easily with other industry-standard systems, ensuring you aren’t left in the cold just because your system won’t line up with another practice’s system.
  • MedicsPortal: Allow patients to fill out forms, make payments online, and schedule appointments no matter what time of day or year.
  • MedicsRx e-Prescribing Solution (optional): Enhance patient care by delivering safety measures for prescriptions issued, as well as ensure that prescription data is accurately and securely transferred via SureScripts to all associated pharmacies.
  • Medics On-Call for iPhone (optional): Via iPhone or Droid phone, you can enter patient data immediately instead of hours or days later. This is particularly useful for hospital rounds or when the provider is not on premises.
  • MediCall automated patient communication system (optional): Automated patient calling system sends out reminders regarding appointments, lab results, collections, and any news you’d like to broadcast regarding the practice.

EHR/EMR Software
ADS’ EHR/EMR software, MedicsDocsAssistant, is a dynamically powerful software solution that is available in different formats depending on your practice’s needs: Client-Server for those who prefer an on-premise solution, or ASP/SaaS for those who prefer to access the software via the Internet. Specialty specific EMR software is available for Behavioral Health, Cardiology, ENT, Gastroenterology, General, Medicine, Internal Medicine, Ob/Gyn, Opthalmology, Pain Management, Pediatrics, Radiology, Surgery, and Urology. Features include:
Physicians Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI): PQRI records the degree of success of results based on the procedures implemented for patients in order to ensure that patients are treated effectively and efficiently.

  • Computer Based Provider Order Entry (CPOE): CPOE allows the provider to enter instructions for medications, tests, and procedures into patient records, which is then transmitted to the proper departments, pharmacies, labs, etc.
  • Evidence-Based Medicine: MedicsDocAssistant EMR software consists of features like “blue ribbons” for reinforcing individual provider judgment with the best evidence from research.
  • MedicsRX e-Prescribing Solution: MedicsRX expands patient care by delivering safety measures for prescriptions issued. Prescription data is then transferred to linked pharmacies.
  • Medics On-Call for iPhone (optional): Via iPhone or Droid phone, you can enter patient data immediately instead of hours or days later. This is particularly useful for hospital rounds or when the provider is not on premises.
  • MedicsPortal: Allow patients to fill out forms, make payments online, and schedule appointments no matter what time of day or year.
  • Automated Patient Questionnaire gives patients the ability to fill out their initial registration information before their arrival.
  • Encounter-based model: Integrated services are delivered for consolidating patient encounter data, adding notes and transcripts, and accessing medical terms glossaries.
  • Virtual “sticky notes”: You can enter handwritten notes into the system during or after a patient visit.
  • Template texts: The EMR system includes ready-made template texts, including for specific specialties, for quickly entering patient visit data.
  • Powerful search: Helps the provider locate patient records quickly by date, name, time slot, and more.
  • Role-based security: Provide differing levels of security access depending on the individual, and designate roles for changing, viewing, or entering patient information whether it’s for individual, groups, or all patients.
  • Medics Patient Portal: Allow patients to fill out forms, make payments online, and schedule appointments no matter what time of day or year.

Radiology Information System/Picture Archiving and Communications System (RIS/PACS)
ADS’s MedicsRIS/PACS software is a completely integrated software solution for medical practices that need an affordable RIS or PACS system. Both are available separately, or as a package.

  • Automatic split billing: When needed, automatically split charges for professional and technical aspects of radiology billing.
  • Automated billing: Integrated billing, revenue cycle management, and collections.
  • Full EDI capabilities: Electronic claim submission, eligibility verification, and remittance.
  • Advanced scheduler: Multi-modality scheduling, pre-certification lists, and insurance eligibility confirmation.
  • Customized workflow: A customizable and wide-ranging control and supervision of patient flow in your practice or medical facility.
  • Digital transcription: Records for voice recognition and manual transcription systems.
  • Mammography tracking: Record and track BIRADS findings, biopsy results, and ACR statistical reports.
  • Management reporting: Revenue, referral, and productivity reports.
  • Scanning: Integrated document and image scanning.
  • HL7 compliant: MedicsRIS/PACS integrates easily with other industry-standard systems, ensuring you aren’t left in the cold just because your system won’t line up with another practice’s system.
  • DICOM worklists: Delivers study and demographic data.
  • Referring physician Web portal: Request appointments and view appointments, PACS images, and medical reports.
  • Patient Web Portal: Allow patients to fill out forms, make payments online, and schedule appointments no matter what time of day or year.
  • PACS integration: MedicsRIS integrates with MedicsPACS or your current PACS from another provider, including: Agfa, DR, Centricity, Dynamic Imaging, Fuji, ERAD, Intellirad, Phillips, Merge, and more.

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Bottom Line
In order to continue their 30 year mission to provide the best of breed in medical software, ADS focuses on developing products that are high in quality, extremely reliable, easy to use, efficient, and customizable. They work to create feature sets that keep the customer in mind, but are also innovative and keep up with rapid changes in the medical industry. Customer satisfaction remains the focus of ADS’s product development at every stage, from the initial conception to marketing to technical support.