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Each record is a real person. Every data point can be a game-changer in someone’s life. It is a connection that needs to be understood and taken action on. Our goal is to improve the management of health information and enable better health. Ciox has been advancing healthcare for over 40 years through better health information management, and the exchange of health information. Our extensive experience in medical records spans many industries. This allows us to modernize workflows and facilitate access to clinical information. We also improve the accuracy and flow health information. Our clients can manage, protect, and use health information to improve their operations, optimize revenue, and provide better patient outcomes. Ciox HealthSource, a fully-scalable clinical data platform Ciox HealthSource utilizes Artificial Intelligence technology for higher quality data, lower administrative burden, and better financial performance.
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BlueNote Communicator
BlueNote Software
$835 one-timeGet your office moving immediately. One click of a Light will get your office moving. BlueNotes must be first experienced by those who will be using them. It's not just technology that you can see on a monitor to see how it works. Blue notes are, in essence, the microtones that lie between the regular notes of a musical scale. They can be heard when they are played or sung, but it is impossible to write them down. Blue notes are soul. They are what make the difference between modern and classical music. BlueNotes are more than just messaging. The system is the heartbeat of an office. It allows everyone to know where kindness is needed at all times. -
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Rallyest
Rallyest
FreeImagine being able to support someone in treatment using a mobile secure, user-friendly tool. It would be incredible to be able to rally the professional team of a client and their natural support network to increase the chances of a successful treatment. Rallyest allows you to give your clients the best. Rallyest is happy to announce the addition to its indispensable feature list of video capabilities. Rallyest can capture secure video using a smartphone, computer, or tablet. This secure video can be shared with clients, their support network, and their professionals. Patients in treatment settings can have better and more confidential input, support, or connection. Engage clients and involve their support network to increase treatment success. Gather support from a client's extended family, friends, coworkers, clergy, or professionals. One location for client's photos, videos and updates. -
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AssureCare MedCompass
AssureCare
AssureCare, a privately-held healthcare technology company, provides innovative care management solutions for commercial and health and human service providers. AssureCare's flagship platform, MedCompass is used by healthcare providers across the United States to provide end-to-end care management for millions. MedCompass transforms healthcare management through streamlining workflows and automating processes. This allows care professionals to make better decisions and achieve lower costs and a significantly improved quality of care. AssureCare is a leader in the development of modular, seamless solutions that improve patient outcomes and reduce unnecessary costs associated with population health management. -
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Connexall
Connexall
Connexall is a hospital-wide event management and control platform. It was ranked number one in the 2015/2016/2017 awards and 2018 Best in KLAS Awards. It acts as a backbone to clinical workflow by communicating the correct information to the right person at the right time on the right device. The Class II medical device software, based on more than 20 years worth of R&D, is completely vendor-neutral. Connexall has offices located in Canada, Brazil, Portugal, Hong Kong, and the United States. It works with more than a thousand of the most innovative and renowned hospitals and health systems around the globe. -
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Therap
Therap Services
Therap is the industry's leader in electronic records and documentation for long-term care services for people living with Intellectual or Developmental Disabilities. Therap is a web-based software suite that provides a complete solution for organizations supporting people with intellectual or developmental disabilities in their home and community-based services (HCBS), and other settings. Therap uses secure cloud technology to improve the quality of services within day programs, assisted living facilities and ICF/IID facilities. It also supports community support programs and state agencies. It is easy to communicate and report daily between the states, administrators and health care professionals as well as families and quality assurance teams. -
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TreeAge Pro
TreeAge Software
$450 one-time paymentTreeAge Pro is the best tool for building decision trees and Markov models, as well as event-based simulations. TreeAge Software, LLC has been a leader in decision analysis and health economists for more than 30 years. TreeAge Pro, our flagship software, has been developed and refined by our team of scientists, engineers and trainers. TreeAge Software, LLC, is a privately owned company with headquarters in Williamstown, Massachusetts. TreeAge Pro is the most popular visual tool for creating and analysing decision trees. For any type of decision, you can create decision trees of infinite complexity. TreeAge Pro software can be used in many industries including healthcare, legal and oil & gas exploration. It can also be used for management consulting, investing, teaching, and other areas. TreeAge Software has been trusted by more than 15 000 modelers worldwide, including those in the US, Europe and Latin America, Asia, Australia, and Africa. -
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Clarify Health
Clarify
Transforming fragmented health data into actionable insights. Clarify Health's analytics platform cuts through all the noise. We provide precise insights into provider performance, patient journeys and therapy adoption to help you thrive in a post-pandemic environment. Our advanced analytics software allows you to confidently improve physician performance, match patients with the right care, and negotiate value-based arrangements. Get insights to help accelerate product growth and launch, show real-world impact, enable outcomes-based commercial agreements, and facilitate product launches and growth. You can identify top physicians and facilities faster, provide a more personal experience to members, maximize value-based engagements, and more accurately identify top doctors and facilities. You can get timely insights from thousands of predictive models that organize data into real time analyses to show a demonstrable ROI. Big data is the driving force behind this. Innovative technology is the driving force behind this. Transforming health data into positive impact. -
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SSI Access Director
SSI Group
Prioritizing the front end. Front-end solutions that are integrated to improve the patient's financial experience and the revenue cycle. Address deliverability is determined to minimize returned mail and unpaid bills. Verify the patient's identity and demographic data to reduce input errors. Verify insurance eligibility of patients at the point-of-service. Verify medical necessity before service to maximize revenue and regulatory compliance. Automate PA from beginning to end in seconds. Automate the notification to ensure that payers are notified of hospital admissions in a timely manner. Communicate patient out-of pocket expenses promptly and accurately. Increase collections by determining financial aid eligibility and propensity to repay. Patient access, once overlooked, has become a driving factor in hospitals. Patient access staff today have one of most difficult jobs within the organization. Registrars are expected to be accurate and fast, and to provide excellent service. -
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Collective Medical
Collective Medical
In the ED seconds are crucial. Collective curates data from patients into a focused alert that helps ED providers make informed decisions quickly for better patient outcomes. Get notifications for patients with patterns of high utilization or complex needs as soon as they register--notifications are also sent to other members of the patient's care team, so they can intervene and redirect patients to more appropriate settings for care to avoid misuse of emergency room services. Collective can send alerts via fax, network printers, email or text message, or deliver notifications directly to your EHR. This ability to embrace the unique needs and workflows of each facility aligns providers by giving them a common playbook. Wherever the patient goes the collective follows. -
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MemberMatch
Experian Health
Despite the fact that population health and episodic management are important for reducing hospitalizations, and emergency room (ER), use, 20 to 30 percent of members are admitted every year. Many more will visit the ER. Unmanaged, these patients may end up in expensive clinical settings for longer periods of time, or with higher readmission rates. They may also have less-than optimal outcomes. MemberMatch®, a software solution from Accountable Care Organizations, ESRD Seamless Care Organizations, and health plans, allows them to actively manage high-cost clinical episodes of their members by alerting the care managers in real-time about a member's discharge, admission, or ER visits. The management of care is made easier by real-time notification. Members are less likely than ever to be in expensive clinical settings for longer periods of time, or have high readmission rates. MemberMatch offers timely information to improve the odds of optimal outcomes. -
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MyOutcomes FIT
MyOutcomes
FIT eLearning offers a fast and new way to learn and implement feedback-informed treatments. FIT eLearning, which is based on the groundbreaking PCOMS evidence-based practices, is designed to help you gain abilities and confidence regardless your learning style. Excellent knowledge of PCOMS/FIT. Clients receive a meaningful outcome and session rating process. To keep sessions on track, a simple red, green, and yellow signaling system is adopted. A way to track your clinical effectiveness across clients. Identification of your professional baseline. The ability to measure micro-improvements in future skills growth. A certificate for 12 hours of online psychotherapy training using feedback-informed treatment. Whether you are an individual practitioner or part a larger group, FIT eLearning can help you create a culture for feedback and incorporate the outcome and scales (ORS & RRS) into your clinical practice. -
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StrataJazz
Strata Decision Technology
Hospital budgeting is a mess. A typical hospital spends between three and six months and 100,000 hours creating a budget that is often tens of million of dollars off the mark. It is also out of date when it is finally finalized. There must be a better way... there is. StrataJazz, the most advanced planning tool on the market, simplifies and streamlines the way healthcare providers plan, budget and forecast their capital and operating expenses. The result is a more efficient, accurate and agile planning process. StrataJazz uses top-down, rolling planning methods, seamless integration cost data, best-practice automation, workflow and analysis to create a collaborative, results-oriented plan and budget that is significantly more accurate, efficient, and less time-intensive. -
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High-value decisions can be made and cross-functional collaboration within the care system can be enhanced. The Incedo™, Healthcare Management Platform is a complete medical management solution that seamlessly integrates utilization management, care coordination, health care navigation interventions, and care management to improve operational efficiencies. Facilitate communication between Care Management, Clinical, and Utilization Management teams by sharing a member care plan. This allows for easy transition between UM/CM. Enhanced Data Capabilities - A flexible data repository that can be customized for granular tracking and reporting simplifies data capture and CMS compliance.
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Assurance Reimbursement Management
Change Healthcare
Analytics-driven claims and remittance management software for healthcare providers. It is designed to automate workflows, increase resource utilization, prevent denials and accelerate cash flow. Your first pass claim acceptance rate will increase. Our comprehensive edits package will help you keep up to date with changes in payer rules and regulations. Automated tasks and intuitive workflows that are exception-based will increase productivity. Our flexible, cloud-based technology is available to your staff from any computer. Automated generation of secondary claims and explanations of benefits (EOB), from the primary remittance advisor, will help you manage your secondary claims volume. Predictive artificial intelligence (PAI) helps you focus on the claims that are most urgent. Avoid denials and errors before submission. You can process claims faster. Print and deliver primary paper claims. Collated claims and EOBs can be added for secondary claims. -
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AccuCare
Orion Healthcare Technology
Orion has been providing professional services and technology solutions to the addictions and mental healthcare profession since 1992. Orion's flagship software product, AccuCare EHR (cloud-based), was developed by a highly skilled team of clinicians, engineers, and is designed to improve all areas of your agency including billing, clinical, administrative, research, and analysis. AccuCare includes everything from custom-built screening/assessments, admission/discharge, treatment planning, progress notes, telehealth, e-prescribing, scheduling, electronic billing, custom reporting and more. AccuCare Web Based Practice Management System is supported and managed by a dedicated team that can answer any questions about the system and how it can be integrated into your existing documentation and billing processes. Your subscription includes customer support and automatic upgrades based upon real customer feedback. -
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iTraycer
Medical Tracking Solutions
$50 per user per monthCompanies in many industries are concerned about managing inventory. But, the medical device industry is more important than any other. A single product can cost thousands while surgical loaner kits can cost tens to thousands. Medical device manufacturers and hospitals can increase their sales revenue, decrease capital investments in inventory, and reduce operating expenses by effectively tracking, managing, or leveraging field inventory. Medical Tracking Solutions, Inc. was founded by a team of industry professionals who are experts in the areas of medical devices sales, distribution, logistics, loaner kits processing, software development, and logistics. Manufacturers and hospitals can use the MTS proprietary software, iTraycer or they can take advantage of our full service, where MTS partners and logistics providers to offer a turnkey solution. -
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AveCare
Avedon Health Systems
The right combination of software and clinical resources is essential for effective management of patient care. These resources are critical in an industry that is labor-intensive. They should not only enhance and support the care management process but also contribute to corporate profitability. AveCare's seamless integration with care management functions (CM DM & UM), streamlined workflow, management capability, and affordable pricing Structure allow organizations to optimize their clinical and financial resources while improving patient outcomes and quality. Data can be exchanged from multiple sources, including eligibility, claims, networks and pharmacy. Integrated by design allows seamless integration of case management and disease management/education functions. You can view and access all CM/DM/UM activity as well as information relevant to a patient from one place. -
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VitalHub
VitalHub
VitalHub's portfolio includes solutions for complex hospitals and integrated health systems. Our technologies enable frontline staff, clinicians, and leaders to improve patient experiences and increase operational efficiency, which results in safer care for patients. We provide solutions that optimize patient flow, perioperative and demand & capacity, clinic management, clinic management, and patient journey. VitalHub solutions increase transparency and communication by providing real-time whole system visibility, integrated information for coordinated care, optimization of patient movement, and integrated information for coordination. VitalHub's EHR Suite of Solutions goes beyond standard clinical data collection. Our solutions provide a holistic, comprehensive view of clients and patients at the point-of-care. -
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Getinge
Getinge
As technology advances and treatments become more sophisticated, integrated solutions and access are essential. We are your full-service partner and can support you throughout the clinical pathway so that you can continue to deliver excellent care without compromising safety or quality. Preventing contamination is a common challenge, regardless of whether you are creating the cures for today or the cures for tomorrow. We can help you ensure a safe and productive research or production environment. For advanced medical equipment to be fully functional, it requires a combination of financial planning and preventive maintenance. We provide total cost control and peace-of-mind, so you can focus on what's most important: saving lives. We are a leader in medtech and we put all our resources into helping our customers save as many lives possible. -
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A hospital management system can be used to automate any hospital activity, rather than a traditional system. This system can also manage regular hospital activities such as IPD, OPD billing, test management, account sector management, HR management, and bill management. It is accurate and efficient. It also generates daily, weekly and monthly reports on sales, revenue, patients as well as lab tests, bed management, and so forth. You can easily customize the reports to suit your needs. Click on the following options to view these reports. The most important thing about the software is that admins can view all employees. A messaging platform allows employees to communicate with one another. Clinic management software allows you to stay on top of trends and also allows you to manage your business digitally.
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Care Management Suite
Health Catalyst
The Care Management Suite, a data-driven solution for care management, provides visibility across the continuum of high-risk and at risk populations. It facilitates more patient-centric workflows, reduces overall costs, and improves the quality and safety of patient care. The Care Management Suite improves operational, financial, and clinical outcomes through data analytics. The Care Management Suite includes three applications: Population Builder™, Population Care Workflow, & Population Care Insights. A streamlined workflow that covers everything from patient enrollment, active and passive care management, patient records, care coordination, and patient records is a time-saver and a way to improve care. An analytics-driven DOS platform aggregates disparate EMR data and claims to give a complete patient view. -
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CircleLink Health
CircleLink Health
It is easy to set up. Our HIPAA-compliant software and services are seamlessly integrated into your current workflow. The software allows you to stratify your patients and identify those who may be eligible for CCM or other preventative programs. Our care team + software can manage enrollment/eligibility, patient call cycles, administrative record keeping and more. Our seamless integration allows us to keep our fingers on the pulse and respond to your patients' needs. Physicians can access vital information in a single click. Here's how it works. -
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Trella Health Marketscape
Trella Health
Many doctors who could refer them to your home health services aren't aware of the patients who need them. This is likely because your sales and marketing teams don't see 75% of Medicare claims related to office visits. Demonstrate your ability reduce costs and improve patient outcomes. Home Health Agency A can quickly show how it performs better than Home Health Agency B in terms of hospitalization and readmission rates. Marketscape for Home Health allows you to redefine your marketing and sales strategy in order to focus on high-potential facility and physician referral sources. Our innovative technology and support allow you to quickly evaluate how you rank against your peers in terms of hospital and readmission rates as well as diagnostic category, acuity level and time to care. -
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Midas Health Analytics
symplr
Data from multiple sources is needed to improve the patient experience. Midas Health Analytics helps improve operational and clinical performance by providing solutions that manage risk and control costs, turn data into actionable insight, and make data-driven decision in the face of constant regulatory changes. In today's complex healthcare environment, you can achieve unprecedented operational efficiency by evaluating, interpreting and demonstrating the quality of care results to stakeholders.
Utilization Management Software Overview
Utilization management software (UMS) is a specialized type of healthcare software that helps organizations manage their utilization of resources in the health care system. It can be used to improve the efficiency of an organization’s operations, as well as to track and monitor its utilization of resources. UMS typically includes features for case management, such as resource allocation and coordination; resource tracking, such as hospital bed availability; and decision support tools, such as clinical assessments and patient data collection.
UMS helps healthcare organizations optimize their use of resources by providing them with a comprehensive view of current utilization trends across multiple departments or locations. This allows them to make informed decisions about where additional resources are needed or identify areas where costs could be reduced. Additionally, UMS allows organizations to set up automated processes that help ensure that providers are correctly using the available resources—ensuring patient safety while also optimizing cost savings for both the provider and the payer.
The UMS system provides real-time data regarding utilization trends within a health care organization, which enables administrators to quickly adjust resource allocations based on changing needs. This is especially important in today’s rapidly changing health care environment where demand for services often exceeds capacity—such as during pandemics or other emergencies. By continuously monitoring usage patterns throughout an organization’s network, UMS can provide timely notifications when levels exceed pre-defined thresholds so that corrective action may be taken quickly if necessary.
Finally, many organizations rely on UMS systems to help comply with various governmental regulations related to quality assurance and performance measurements/metrics such as HEDIS® (Healthcare Effectiveness Data & Information Set). By collecting information on utilization rates at different locations or within certain departments within an organization, managers can more easily analyze performance metrics against criteria established by various regulatory bodies for more meaningful reporting purposes.
Overall, Utilization Management Software is a powerful tool that enables health care organizations to better manage their resources while ensuring compliance with regulations—ultimately resulting in improved performance metrics and cost savings for all involved parties.
Reasons To Use Utilization Management Software
- Utilization management software can have a positive impact on healthcare organizations by allowing providers to make best use of the available resources. This software provides visibility into utilization data, which helps providers and administrators identify areas where improvements can be made in order to better serve patients while maximizing cost savings for the organization.
- Utilization management software also allows healthcare organizations to comply with various regulations and standards, such as HIPAA and Medicare’s Conditions of Participation (CoPs). By having access to usage-related information, healthcare facilities are able to ensure that services are delivered in a manner which is compliant with the relevant legal requirements.
- Utilization management software enables healthcare organizations to proactively manage patient care, identify potential issues before they arise, and develop strategies for improving workflow processes. By enabling administrators to monitor all aspects of service delivery, they are able to catch errors or discrepancies before they become more serious problems.
- With utilization management software in place, healthcare organizations can increase operational efficiency by streamlining processes related to patient admissions, transfers and discharges (ATD), thereby reducing overall costs associated with providing medical services. The ability for hospitals and other medical facilities to quickly assess how ATD activities affect their budgets makes it easier for them to plan more effectively for future expenses while controlling resource allocation across different departments and/or locations within an organization.
- In addition, utilization management software can provide insights into quality-of-care indicators such as length-of-stay data or readmissions rates; this information is essential for accurately assessing performance metrics over time so that further measures may be taken if necessary in order improve patient outcomes going forward.
- Finally, utilization management software can be a valuable tool for helping healthcare practitioners improve the overall patient experience. By obtaining usage data related to wait times, appointment scheduling, and order processing, healthcare organizations are able to identify opportunities for streamlining processes and improving the patient journey from start to finish.
The Importance of Utilization Management Software
Utilization management software is incredibly important in the healthcare industry. It serves as an essential tool to help streamline care, reduce costs, and improve overall patient outcomes.
At its core, utilization management software is a set of tools that allow healthcare providers to track how their patients receive care over time. This includes analysis of treatments and procedures given to patients in various medical settings such as hospitals and clinics. The software also provides information on which resources are being used for a particular treatment or procedure, helping providers identify any areas of potential cost savings or waste reduction measures they can undertake.
The utilization management software also aids in delivering quality patient care by allowing providers to monitor changes in treatment patterns over time. With this data set, healthcare organizations can analyze trends and better predict future needs for given conditions or specialty services. With advanced analytics capabilities provided by these systems, health organizations can identify early warning signs and make quick adjustments before issues become more serious and expensive for the organization and/or patient down the road.
Overall, utilization management software helps ensure that high-quality care is delivered efficiently while still keeping costs to a minimum throughout the system as a whole. This type of analysis helps keep budgets within line at both the organizational level and individual patient level — ultimately leading to lower out-of-pocket costs for patients along with greater satisfaction levels throughout the healthcare system today.
Utilization Management Software Features
- Utilization review: Utilization review is a feature offered by utilization management software that can help identify and track wasteful healthcare spending. This tool gives administrators the ability to analyze patient data in order to ensure quality care, ensure cost-efficiency and adhere to policies related to things like coding accuracy and length of stay.
- Claim tracking: Claim tracking is a feature that helps keep up with all the claims submitted by providers, giving administrators an overview of exactly who has submitted for payment, what services were provided, when they were rendered, how much was paid out for those services and other relevant information about each claim.
- Resource Allocation: Resource allocation is a feature of most utilization management software systems that allow administrators to plan ahead when it comes to assigning resources like staff or equipment based on need or budgeting constraints. This helps them allocate their resources more efficiently so they can streamline operations while maximizing quality of care.
- Cost Analysis: Cost analysis tools are available in many utilization management software packages that enable administrators to view costs associated with different treatments including medications, equipment usage and lab tests over time as well as compare expenses between different service areas within the organization itself or when benchmarked against another facility's performance metrics.
- Compliance Monitoring: A compliance monitoring system allows organizations to stay apprised of any new changes in regulations or industry standards that may affect their operations so they can remain compliant while still providing excellent patient care at minimal cost expenditure levels. Additionally, this feature flags instances where policy violations occur, allowing organizations to take corrective action swiftly before costly penalties accumulate as a result of noncompliance issues being identified too late in the process.
- Reporting Capabilities: Utilization management software often includes an extensive suite of reporting tools as well, helping administrators keep track of key performance metrics, spot trends in utilization and cost data over time or across different geographic regions and prepare reports for stakeholders that help them see how the facility is performing against industry standards or when compared with similar organizations.
Who Can Benefit From Utilization Management Software?
- Administrators: Utilization management software enables administrators to easily manage the utilization of healthcare services and resources in their organization, assess the effectiveness of their policies, and make changes if needed.
- Physicians: Utilization management software allows physicians to access patient records more quickly and efficiently, providing them with the information they need to make informed decisions about patient care. Additionally, they can track treatment outcomes over time in order to provide better quality care.
- Insurance Providers: Utilization management software helps insurance providers accurately assess risk when approving coverage for potential policyholders and improves customer service by providing faster payment turnaround times on claims.
- Patients: With utilization management software, patients can access their medical records securely online, allowing for easy communication with healthcare providers and greater awareness about their own health status. Additionally, it makes filing insurance claims simpler since all relevant information is readily available.
- Healthcare Facilities: By utilizing utilization management software solutions such as appointment scheduling systems or hospital queues tracking tools, healthcare facilities are able to reduce wait times for patients and improve overall operational efficiency within their organizations.
- Clinical Researchers: Utilization management software allows clinical researchers to quickly access and analyze large datasets in order to identify trends in healthcare utilization, determine the effectiveness of new treatments, or design better preventive care strategies.
- Regulatory Bodies: Utilization management software provides the data needed for regulatory bodies to understand patterns and trends in healthcare utilization, identify potential problems, and develop strategies to improve healthcare quality.
How Much Does Utilization Management Software Cost?
The cost of utilization management software for healthcare organizations varies widely depending on the specific needs and requirements of the organization. Some basic systems can start as low as a few hundred dollars, while more comprehensive systems with features such as advanced analytics, business rules engines, automated patient tracking, and real-time dashboards can be in the tens of thousands. Additionally, some vendors offer subscription pricing models that allow organizations to pay per user or annually. These fees can range from a few hundred dollars to over five thousand each year.
Because there is no one-size-fits-all solution for every healthcare organization's utilization management needs, implementation and maintenance costs should also be considered when evaluating software options. Implementation costs may include setup fees, professional services, integration expenses associated with connecting to other systems or databases, training costs for users and IT staff, and ongoing maintenance fees. Professional services ranging from consulting to customization will add an additional cost layer to the project budget that must be taken into account prior to commitment.
Ultimately, it’s important that healthcare organizations take into consideration both the initial investment required for setting up utilization management software as well as long term maintenance costs when making their decision on which system is right for their particular situation.
Risks To Be Aware of Regarding Utilization Management Software
- Inaccurate Information: Utilization management software needs to be maintained regularly in order to ensure accuracy of data stored in a healthcare system. If the data is not updated or is incorrect, it can lead to inappropriate decisions being made about patient care.
- User Error: Improper utilization of utilization management software or mistakes made by users can cause problems with the system and result in inaccurate decisions regarding patient care.
- Poor Security: Healthcare organizations must take steps to protect their networks and information systems from cyber attacks such as malware, spyware, and phishing. A breach could result in unauthorized access to patient records and other sensitive information that could lead to identity theft.
- Increased Costs: Usage-based pricing for utilization management software can be expensive depending on the services required. It may also require a long-term commitment that increases costs over time if the healthcare organization does not receive adequate value for its investment.
- Compliance Issues: Utilization management software must meet certain regulatory requirements such as HIPAA compliance standards. Failing to do so could result in hefty fines or other penalties imposed by governmental authorities which would ultimately cost the organization money and damage its reputation.
What Software Can Integrate with Utilization Management Software?
Utilization management software is a type of software used in healthcare settings to manage the usage and performance of clinical resources. This includes tracking utilization data, such as types of services, procedures, and tests ordered by providers across a healthcare system or facility. Utilization management software can integrate with a variety of different types of software in order to provide an integrated approach to managing utilization data. Examples include electronic health records (EHR) systems, patient scheduling systems, claims processing systems, pharmacy management systems, laboratory information systems (LIS), disease registries, decision-support tools, document imaging solutions, medication administration solutions and financial management tools.
Each type of software provides specific capabilities that are beneficial for utilization management purposes; for example EHRs store patient medical records which can be used for verifying provider orders or controlling costs associated with utilizations; scheduling solutions help to ensure that appointments align with demand; claims processing systems expedite billing processes; and pharmacy management systems aid in drug cost control.
By integrating these various types of software with utilization management applications, healthcare organizations are better able to gain greater insight into utilization patterns such as resource consumption rates and total patient costs associated with clinical activities over time.
Questions To Ask When Considering Utilization Management Software
- What type of utilization management capabilities does the software offer?
- Does the software offer an outcomes-focused approach to care coordination and planning?
- Are there any predictive analytics included in the utilization management software?
- Is the system user-friendly and intuitive, or is it complex and difficult to learn?
- How much experience does the vendor have with developing utilization-management systems for healthcare organizations?
- What types of reports can be generated from the system, and are they customizable?
- Is there a dashboard or visual way to view data about utilization trends within my organization?
- Are all patient demographics stored securely in accordance with HIPAA regulations?
- Does the system integrate easily with existing EHRs, billing systems, scheduling systems, etc.?
- Will customer support be available for training personnel and troubleshooting issues quickly when needed?