Business Process Management/BPO

Contract Management

TractManager from MediTract was designed for smaller, stand-alone hospitals and regional healthcare organizations. The contract management solution comes with scanning equipment and provides authorized users with access to a secure, customizable online database and instructor-led, Web-based training. With TractManager, rural healthcare organizations can immediately locate contracts; send e-mail reminders about expirations and prompt automatic renewals; prepare for audits and accreditations while controlling contractual obligations; reduce payments on expired contracts to minimize risk of non-compliance, and eliminate the risk of missing warranty expirations and service requirements.

MediTract Inc., Chattanooga, Tenn.
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Claims Processing

Single Unified View

Centraspect HC for Revenue Cycle Management from Systemware integrates with a hospital’s existing systems and captures, and provides access to, a patient’s clinical, financial and administrative information, which it presents in a single, unified or “virtual” view. This revenue cycle management/electronic medical record/business office operations software does not replace a hospital’s existing systems. It augments them and speeds the capture of EOB and remittance data by automating manual steps to accelerate cash collections, reduced patient billing processing costs and increase efficiency. Key features include: support for automated workflow and ANSI EDI 835 formatted EOBs; role-based access and logical view of all patient information, including claims, EOBs and correspondence presented as a virtual patient chart. The solution also includes a scalable repository and detailed indexing for all documents, operational and executive RCM dashboard displays and line-item level reconciliations of outstanding claims.

Systemware Inc., Addison, Texas.
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HPT’s latest release of HTP RevRunner (version 3) adds a customized worklist wizard, a patient history view and an improved user interface, which increases its ability to uncover billable revenue and boost reimbursements. Version 3 is built upon earlier versions’ capabilities, such as HTP Advocate, an automated, Web-based module that enables providers to assess and assist a patient’s ability to pay; HTP Estimator for calculating a patient’s financial responsibility at the point-of-service; HTP Verifier, which integrates eligibility verification into a hospital’s existing information systems; and, HTP Monitor, which enables providers to send unlimited claim-status inquiries to payers without incurring per-transaction charges. The new WorkList Wizard enables hospitals to manage workflow through customized worklists that specify when and how staff and information systems perform certain tasks. Patient History Viewer compiles claim status queries and insurance eligibility into a single database of patient data to reduce the time it takes for staff to access patient information. The improved user interface features a new detail viewer with tabs to support faster data input/output.

HTP Inc., Columbus, Ohio.
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Document Management

Inscrybe Healthcare is Authentidate’s new Web-based information exchange platform for healthcare that enables a wide range of industry professionals (e.g., physicians, hospital chains, home-health agencies, pharmacies, payers and more) to securely exchange all types of documents, including medical records, approval forms and claims support. All transaction activities are subject to strict process controls that comply with HIPAA and with other industry regulations. Inscryb Healthcare enables seamless interoperability among in-house systems, as well as between internal and external systems, according to the manufacturer. The enterprise-class platform is highly configurable and provides process integrity and content authentication for electronic as well as fax-based systems. Authentidate also released a new digital plan-of-care service module for Inscrybe that enables physicians and home-health agencies to authenticate and exchange Medicare-required documentation that includes digital signatures and trusted third-party verification. Other forms, such as certificates of medical necessity, prior authorizations and physician credentialing also will be available as service modules.

Authentidate Holding Corp., Berkeley Heights, N.J.
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EMR/EHR/EFR

The EBSCOhost Information Toolkit from EBSCO Publishing enables hospitals to integrate evidence-based decision support tools, such as journal articles, trials, prescription medication and patient education information, and other clinical information they receive from an EBSCOhost database into their EHRs and EMRs at the point-of-care. The Toolkit is compatible with all manufacturers’ EHRs/EMRs, according to the manufacturer, and enables healthcare providers to access EBSCO’s medical databases through an industry standard “infobutton.” The integrated information is made available as an individual record that can be accessed anywhere the doctor needs it. The Toolkit also provides a comprehensive set of XML/SOAP standard Web services that enables healthcare organizations using Web-based EHR/EMRs to directly link with EBSCO’s clinical reference resources.

EBSCO Publishing, Ipswich, Mass.
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PACS/DICOM/RIS

Visage PACS from Mercury Computer Systems is a scalable, fully integrated image management system for large or small-scale healthcare organizations. Up to 500 internal or external users can access the image database simultaneously through Web clients, thin 3D clients or workstations. In addition to centralized maintenance and remote Web-based administration, Visage PACS features cluster and failover technology, integrated clinical application and specialty modules that enable it to integrate cardialogy, PET-CT, surgery and orthopedics applications. Its key modules include: Visage PACS Online, which features up to several terabytes of online storage; Visage PACS Archives with a scalable cluster server for long-term, HIPAA-compliant storage on RAID disks; Visage PACS Web for instantaneous access to images, reports and patient information throughout the hospital; Visage CS Thin Client/Server for immediate 3D/4D viewing and post-processing of multi-slice and multi-modality studies; and, Visage PACS Transfer with lossless data compression that reduces bandwidth requirements when receiving/transmitting diagnostic data to remote Visage PACS servers.

Mercury Computer Systems, Chelmsford, Mass.
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Physician Practice Management

Physician practices that wish to provide their patients with directions, physicians’ biographies or even two-way secure communications with their doctors may want to consider Practice Portal Services from OmniMD. The company offers predesigned or custom-built Web sites through which patients can login and request appointments, update their records, refill prescriptions and receive lab results from anywhere on the Web. Patients also can elect to receive automate health alerts and medical education. The portal integrates with OmniMD’s EMR and Scheduler products and can reduce patient record-filling time by enabling those two programs to fill forms by drawing on information from the Web site. Integrated Systems

Management Inc., Tarrytown, N.Y.
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ThinkHealth version 3 from Click4Care takes a member-centric approach to medical management, rather than a disease- or episodic-approach, which, according to the manufacturer, enables it to identify members who will account for most clinical costs and provide them with tools through which they and their providers can make better decisions concerning their healthcare. Version 3 contains predictive and diagnostic rules to support decision-making and drive workflow. It integrates utilization, case, disease and population management workflows into a single platform, as opposed to the 10 or more platforms with which staff often must interact, to predict future medical costs and probabilities of inpatient stays. Version 3 incorporates evidence-based and NCQA-certified clinical pathways and assessments. It also can incorporate a payer’s proprietary clinical intellectual property or sourced clinical IP to automatically create patient care plans.

Click4Care Inc., Powell, Ohio.
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Physician Management Toolkit from Craneware enables those in charge of billing for physician groups to manage the coding, conversion factor, pricing and Relative Value Unit changes that affect physician fee schedules. It enables organizations to stay abreast of changing regulations and codes, and provides the original reference material behind the changes though the software’s Online Reference Toolkit, which provides reference material on regulatory updates, coding changes, edits generated by Medicare’s Correct Coding Initiative, and medical-necessity local and national coverage determinations. The toolkit instantly calculates the impact changes to physician fee schedules have on a practice’s revenue and displays it in a graphical format with specific key performance indicators.

Craneware Inc., Orlando, Fla.
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Centricity Practice Solution from GE Healthcare integrates GE’s Centricity EMR and Centricity PM solutions into a single clinical/financial practice management solution that is Windows XP-based and designed to run on Microsoft’s SQL server technology, making it highly compatible with a plethora of applications and tools. The integrated solution enables clinicians to combine financial and document management with clinical decision support and evidence-based clinical guidelines at the point of care. Practice Solution features include single sign-on, scheduling, billing, reporting, inventory control, electronic claims remittance, and accounts receivable and collections. Centricity EMR has been certified by CCHIT (Certification Committee for Health Information Technology), as well as the NCQA (National Consortium for Quality Outcomes). Practice Solution’s tracking, measuring and reporting capabilities enable caregivers to measure outcomes against nationally accepted, evidence-based clinical guidelines, intended to improve practice efficiency and patient care.

GE Healthcare, Barrington, Ill.
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Printers/Copiers/Scanners

Fujitsu’s ScanSnap S500M scanner was designed with Macintosh users in mind, but it also works with PCs. It scans at speeds up to 18 pages per minute for single-sided documents and up to 36 images per minute for double-sided, which, according to the manufacturer, represents a 20 percent increase in speed over previous models. The S500M sports Mac inspired design characteristics and an automatic paper size detection functionality that enables users to place batches of documents of various sizes, such as receipts and brochures, into the scanner’s 50-page feeder and walk away. The S500M detects the size differences and adjusts the scan accordingly. It is compatible with Mac OS X v.10.4 Tiger, as well as Intel- and PowerPC-based computers. Free with each S500M (mail-in rebate) Readiris Pro 11, a software tool that exports documents in Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint formats, and Cardiris 3.5, which converts business cards into editable documents.

Fujitsu Computer Products of America Inc, Sunnyvale, Calif.
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