Purpose
1. Automate the end-to-end process of generating, managing, and reminding for progress notes within chiropractic practices to enhance documentation accuracy, ensure compliance with regulatory standards, reduce manual errors, increase operational efficiency, and support legal audit trails.
2. Automatedly create SOAP (Subjective, Objective, Assessment, Plan) progress notes post-consultation using patient data, standard templates, and voice recognition transcripts.
3. Automating reminders for incomplete or overdue notes to chiropractors via email, SMS, or in-app notifications.
4. Integrate seamlessly with Electronic Health Records (EHR) systems, insurance platforms, and cloud storage for automatable backup and compliance reporting.
Trigger Conditions
1. Automated trigger when a patient appointment status changes to "Completed".
2. Scheduled automation at the end of each shift or day for pending/unfinished notes.
3. Manual trigger via clinician request in the EHR or practice management software.
4. Automated reminders based on policy (e.g., 24-hour note completion rule, insurance deadlines).
Platform Variants
1. Twilio SMS
- Feature/Setting: Automate SMS reminders to chiropractors for pending notes using Twilio's Messaging API; configure sender number, message template, recipient list.
2. SendGrid
- Feature/Setting: Automatedly send email reminders for overdue progress notes; set up SendGrid SMTP/API integration, automate sender/recipient, and dynamic templates.
3. Google Calendar
- Feature/Setting: Automate event creation for documentation deadlines using Google Calendar API; set automated reminders for clinicians.
4. Slack
- Feature/Setting: Automate direct Slack notifications using the Slack Incoming Webhooks API, customized channels, and message structuring for compliance alerts.
5. Microsoft Teams
- Feature/Setting: Automate Teams message notifications to practitioner channels via Microsoft Graph API; set up adaptive cards for action prompts.
6. Salesforce Health Cloud
- Feature/Setting: Automate task assignment and note status updates using Salesforce Flow and Apex triggers.
7. AthenaHealth
- Feature/Setting: Integrate with AthenaHealth API for automated EHR event monitoring and documentation status change automation.
8. Cerner Millennium
- Feature/Setting: Use Cerner’s FHIR API to automate SOAP note generation and reminder push for missed entries.
9. Epic Systems
- Feature/Setting: Automate note tracking and reminders through Epic’s App Orchard API; set up triggers on appointment status.
10. Asana
- Feature/Setting: Automate task creation/reminders for progress note completion using Asana API webhooks and custom field automation.
11. Google Docs
- Feature/Setting: Auto-generate note documents using Google Docs API, with template duplication and document autofill function.
12. Dropbox
- Feature/Setting: Automate backup of generated progress notes into Dropbox using Dropbox API’s "files/upload" endpoint.
13. Zapier
- Feature/Setting: Create automatable multi-platform workflows to sync appointment completion, note generation, and reminder tasks across tools.
14. HubSpot
- Feature/Setting: Automate CRM records update and follow-up task creation with HubSpot Workflows API based on progress note completion.
15. OneDrive
- Feature/Setting: Automate upload and storage of documentation with OneDrive API upon note finalization.
16. VoiceBase
- Feature/Setting: Automate transcription from recorded patient consults using VoiceBase API for inclusion in progress notes.
17. Otter.ai
- Feature/Setting: Automate live transcription during sessions that is integrated into SOAP note templates via Otter.ai Developer API.
18. Google Cloud Natural Language
- Feature/Setting: Automate semantic analysis and tagging of notes for compliance using Google’s NLP API.
19. Amazon S3
- Feature/Setting: Automate long-term encrypted backup of signed notes to S3 buckets using AWS S3 SDKs.
20. Monday.com
- Feature/Setting: Automate documentation tasks and compliance tracking boards using Monday.com API with custom automation recipes.
21. Box
- Feature/Setting: Automate storage, version history and sharing of progress notes with Box Content API, automating compliance logs.
Benefits
1. Automatedly increases efficiency, lowering manual documentation workload.
2. Automates compliance with insurance, regulatory, and accreditation deadlines.
3. Automated reminders prevent missed or late progress notes, securing audit-readiness.
4. Automating standardized templates enforces consistency and reduces errors.
5. Automation gives real-time visibility into outstanding tasks, reducing risk of penalties.
6. Automator platforms allow rapid scaling as clinic volume grows, supporting expansion.
7. Automates integration with cloud storage/backup for secure documentation retention.
8. Automated analytic hooks enable quality improvement and operational monitoring.
9. Automates multi-channel alerting (SMS, email, app, voice), maximizing clinician response rates.
10. Automating digital trails supports medico-legal protection and retrospective analysis.