CGM LIFE eSERVICES is an innovation designed to revolutionise the healthcare landscape by enabling the electronic exchange or sharing pertinent patient information between healthcare providers. CGM LIFE eSERVICES is a web-based personal record. It contains a patient’s relevant medical data.

Currently, every physician maintains patient medical data in an isolated fashion, recording only the treatment he provided and the information is never made available to other healthcare providers whom the patient may be consulting.

It is an established fact that “accurate, timely health information saves life”. Hence, instant access to patient record encompassing all relevant diagnoses and treatment during the course of a patient’s life is central to the delivery of safe and optimum care. This is precisely what CGM LIFE eSERVICES is set out to accomplish. Elaborate patient health information collection and repeat physician orders for extensive laboratory investigations and medical imaging procedures will thereby become “a thing of the past” – through the linking of various healthcare facilities, such as the doctor’s clinic, medical centres, hospitals or centres of excellence.

Through CGM LIFE eSERVICES communication between the patient and his care provider is further enhanced and made easy. Patients are able to make online booking for appointment, online consultation and online findings inquiries easily via the clinic website. The online services not only represent an innovative additional service for patients, they also lower administrative expenditures and efforts, as well as cutting down on phone calls. Inadvertently, this results in the entire medical office team having more time for what is really important: Increasing the efficiency of the medical office, especially patient care.

CGM LIFE eSERVICES, unlike other health records, is assigned to the patient who is the absolute custodian of his personal health information. The input of clinical information will primarily come from information systems used by the attending physicians. Due to the immediate access to correspondingly valid data, the physicians are able to utilise the information at hand.

In addition, physicians are able to utilise the advantages of automated processes on the basis of this structured information. These processes are made available through the CGM Software Assisted Medicine (SAM) systems and offer physicians a host of services, such as CPGs (Clinical Practice Guidelines), automated prescription drug checks, risk assessment and recommendations for a specific course of action.

The SAM System also provides a systematic approach towards the management of life-style conditions and chronic diseases (e.g. obesity, hyperlipidemia, arteriosclerosis, hypertension, diabetes mellitus). Hence, rather than spending a lot of time instructing patients, physicians are able to enter general as well as patient-specific information into the file, allowing them to devote more time on important points while talking to their patients.

source:www.cgm.com