OSCAR supports all the necessary functions to run a medical practice/clinic large or small:
Patient registration for capitation or fee-for-service practices and roster management
Scheduling with highly customizable view of provider groups and individualized booking preference
Billing also features super-codes for smart and simplified billing, third party billing and a full third party invoice generating and payment tracking system
Direct integration with Ontario’s MCEDT and BC’s MSP Teleplan provincial claims systems
Complete electronic charting of all encounters with an up to date Cumulative Patient Profile (CPP) which provides a ‘snapshot view’ of important demographics, all active medical problems, medications, allergies, significant past history, family history and social history
Prescription module with drug-drug interaction and renal dosage adjustment decision support, personal favourites, patient’s pharmacy, drug allergy alerts
Real time communication with MyDrugRef, a social network of trusted colleagues whose postings related to the drugs your patient is taking can be displayed just when you are prescribing these drugs
Chronic disease management which maximizes revenue generation through monitoring and alerting of preventative screening and best practice interventions
A sophisticated antenatal care record with antenatal care planner
Disease Registry is provided to support population health analysis
Tabulation of outstanding preventative and intervention practices
All electronic laboratory results from private and government laboratories will be imported directly into the EMR (HL7)
Diagnostic imaging results and consultation notes can be scanned into the EMR where required
Highly customizable automated electronic forms/templates (eForms) can be created for your clinic, by your own clinic staff (useful for many purposes, e.g. requisition forms…)
The Tickler system – a reminder and recall system that can assign tasks to team members and set priority for each task
A very easy to use referral system with patient’s important information transferred to the referral letter automatically
Secure messaging system for communication within the clinic
Secure messaging with patients, transfer of patients’ record to patients’ Personal Health Record system called MyOSCAR
Clinical information resource can be accessed at the point of care
Research tools
Faxing – OSCAR can integrate with faxing services to fax various documents from OSCAR, including prescriptions, consultation requests, eForms and much more.
New features in the latest OSCAR releases are documented in the online manual.