As more healthcare providers turn to mobile devices, developers are racing to provide solutions to give physicians on-the-go access to all the features and functions they need to complete their daily tasks. The latest solution is from 3M.

Their 3M Mobile Physician solution is designed to work with a variety of mobile devices including the iPad, iPhone, Android, Blackberry, and Windows Mobile devices. 3M is touting Mobile Physician Solution as the first 3M software to integrate their coding logic.

With four main modules, 3M Mobile Physician Solution provides everything a physician needs to complete their daily tasks on the go. For example, Mobile Physician includes a patient list, which allows physicians to sort through patient information.  They can identify a patient’s room number and access scheduled appointments, including what other doctors have seen the patient. 

With the mobile rounds, doctors can access patient medications, allergies, vitals, and lab test results. The package also includes the ability to do mobile dictation. If the doctor’s healthcare facility has a dictation/speech recognition system, Mobile Physician Solutions will upload the doctor’s dictated notes.

3M’s system will automatically link the physician’s voice files to the correct patient, which should eliminate the need to enter patient-identifier numbers. 3M hopes this will help reduce errors and promote faster transcription turnaround time.

Another great feature is the charge capture. Charge capture lets doctors capture professional fee charges for any patient encounter by selecting and pairing the correct billing codes with the appropriate diagnosis or procedure.

Since Mobile Physician integrates 3M coding logic into the physician equation, doctors can access codes on their mobile devices. That means they will no longer need to refer to the codes listed in a book. 3M believes that the codes will help physicians determine when a charge isn't appropriate, based on the patient's demographics, which should help with ICD-10 coding.