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ABBYY Timeline

Tue, 15 Nov 2022 15:07:06 GMT

ABBYY Timeline

Across the board, healthcare providers and hospitals are being asked to do more with less. Declining claims reimbursement rates, the shift to value-based purchasing, escalating healthcare costs, heightened awareness of medical errors, and a higher-than-ever number of insured Americans are increasing the need to improve the financial health of medical practices and hospitals. Healthcare providers need to decrease inefficiencies and costs while increasing the level of patient satisfaction.

Providers need to be able to uncover areas of improvement with efficiency and accuracy and finding those areas needs to be as easy as possible. Practices and hospitals that can see and measure their processes from end to end will have the greatest success in finding key areas for improvement and therefore increasing their efficiency and revenue.

For these reasons, providers must manage their business and clinical processes better from start to finish. Noted management expert Peter Drucker said this, “You can’t manage what you can’t measure.” Before your practice can make any improvements in your process, you must first know where you have opportunities to do so. Many information systems give providers seemingly limitless data. For most organizations, taking this massive amount of data and putting it to practical use has been overwhelming and/or impossible. Determining where and how to employ a quality improvement strategy is complex, but ABBYY Timeline can help medical professionals better understand clinical processes.

What Is Timeline?

ABBYY Timeline is the comprehensive Process Intelligence platform that can provide health care providers the data they need to take action. This cloud-based platform not only delivers continuous operational insight to healthcare providers, but also offers over 28 prebuilt, best practice analysis tools that will help healthcare leaders gain a full perspective of their processes. This enables you to identify areas where efficiency can be improved, where you can provide a better quality of care, and where you can improve the patient experience. Timeline maps out your full process end-to-end, even from data that is stored in different systems (EHR, LIKS, RIS, PACS, RCM, etc.) as well as processes that happen in different locations. Within seconds of loading your data, you can visualize where inefficiencies, repeated steps, bottlenecks, and any other issues within your processes may be occurring. This data comes in real-time and enables your team to make the best decisions to improve your overall process. The result increases patient satisfaction and clinician experience. In the end, it saves your organization money.

How Does Timeline Work?

While healthcare workers and clinicians make up the most visible portion of healthcare, the entire system relies on a complex web of interconnected and interdependent processes, many of which happen in different locations and use different systems. To optimize your overall process, you need to see how the different pieces are interrelated and the places in that end to end process that can be improved. An end to end perspective can help you discover best practices, identify mistakes and inefficiencies, and quantify a variety of behaviors that can directly impact outcomes, revenue, and costs. Traditional process improvement takes lots of time, money, and people. But new technology makes it possible to take your existing data and integrate it to give you that high-level view without the need to modify existing IT infrastructure. Timeline automatically creates an interactive model and generates a wide variety of analyses. As a result, you can immediately access process insights that are not available from any existing tools in your current system. This cloud-based platform can be accessed by your entire team as needed for the highest efficiency for everyone involved. You can now easily identify bottlenecks, costs, and compliance risks associated with any point in your process and across all your systems. Moreover, you can see how to solve them.

How Will Timeline Give You a Clear View of Your Patients' Entire Experience With in Your Office?

Every area of your healthcare business will benefit from Timeline including Appointments & Scheduling, Clinical Care Coordination, Hospital Operations, Patient Safety & Risk, Patient Satisfaction, Payer Contracting, Pharmacy Procurement Radiology, CP & AP Labs Rehabilitation, PT, OT, ST, Resource Stewardship, and Revenue Cycle Management

Scheduling/admissions/registration to
Previsit financial navigation to check-in and arrival to
Care delivery/care management/charging to
Checkout/discharge –
To coding/charge review to
Claims and billing to
Finance to
Post and home healthcare

How Will Timeline Help You?

You can expect to see improvement in your efficiency in every point of the patient experience when you implement Timeline.

Reduction of over admittance and patient wait time
Faster lab request turnaround
Prediction of staffing allocation
Decrease in patient wait times and door to doctor times
Increase in patient satisfaction and retention
Queue warnings for delayed processes
Rooming delay reduction

Why AccelHealth Systems?

AccelHealth Systems provides a means for efficiencies in the present and set up for success in the future. As protocols change and processes adapt, ABBYY Timeline with AccelHealth delivers the tools to understand existing processes and make the required updates to maintain peak efficiencies and ensure compliance with all standards and performance targets. AccelHealth helps in a variety of ways. We give fast insight through a real-time measure of processes enabling any organization to make an informed decision more quickly. AccelHealth Systems provides full support and guidance from implementation through deploying.

Not only will Timeline help you create your most efficient present, It will set you up for success in your future. As required protocols change, Timeline will provide you with the tools to understand your existing process and make the required updates keeping you in compliance with all standards and meeting performance targets.

All this to say, ABBYY Timeline can help you in a variety of ways.

It will give you fast Insights – a real-time measure of your processes - enabling you to make the best decisions in an instant.

It is a low effort. AccelHealth Systems provides full support and guidance during your implementation and onboarding.

Best Practices for Digital Transformation in Healthcare

Tue, 15 Nov 2022 15:01:44 GMT

Best Practices for Digital Transformation in Healthcare

As technology fundamentally changes healthcare, automation and process intelligence has emerged as a core component of digital transformation to reduce data error, save time, cut costs, and ensure health systems remain secure to deliver an even better quality of service. While following the best practice and getting started can be challenging, Jobes Tech is here to bring you the best methods to ensure your healthcare organization completes a successful digital transformation.

Discovery: Understand Your Health Care Organizations Processes

The first step in digital transformation is to fully understand your health care organization's processes and where you stand. AccelHealth Systems offers you an extensive analysis of how you do business today to foster innovation of current processes that only digital transformation can bring.

Investigate: New Automation Technologies

Upon identifying what you would like to improve, you may start doing your research to discover the most appropriate solution. With various automation solutions available to healthcare organizations, it is essential to investigate the best tools to help streamline your healthcare processes as fast, easy, and secure as possible. This will ensure the technology you are implementing will help solve any issues.

Questions to ask when choosing the right solution:

What smart solutions are the most beneficial to your current processes?
Does this fit our needs?
How much time will go into implementing this change?
What is the estimated ROI?

Implementation: Kickstart Your Digital Transformation Journey

Keep in mind it is essential to grasp the full impact of new automation technologies before applying them to understand how your strategies will change current processes. Many implementation efforts fail because the scope or importance is underestimated due to preparation and prioritization.

Questions we recommend asking for successful implementation:

Which of your organization's processes should be prioritized?
Is your project able to receive the appropriate resources?

Getting Your Employees Up To Speed

It is necessary to introduce appropriate technology to staff as soon as possible. Providing training is key to successful implementation.

It is essential to keep a few various aspects in mind:

Is my training catering to a variety of learning styles and needs?
Tailor your training sessions to all types of learners by providing a range of materials and options.
Automation is viewed as a threat to some. To avoid this with your staff, let them know why the change matters to them and how it will impact their day-to-day work.
Ask for feedback from users at every stage in the implementation. The greater the speed of delivery occurs; the faster healthcare professionals will prevent confusion down the road.

AccelHealth Systems is here to help overcome the struggles of digital transformation.

HIPAA Violations and How to Prevent Them

Tue, 15 Nov 2022 14:58:06 GMT

HIPAA Violations and How to Prevent Them

When patients visit a healthcare provider, they are entrusting that organization with their most sensitive information. This may include their private medical data, health insurance IDs, and Social Security Numbers. To help ensure the security and confidentiality of protected health information when it is transferred, received, handled, or shared, congress passed the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) in 1996. Without the proper tools in place, not only are patients at risk of becoming a victim to cybercrime attacks and theft, but medical practices are at a high risk for HIPAA violations.

What Happens if HIPAA Is Violated?

Large-scale settlements are only a fraction of the fines levied by federal investigators every year. Once you’ve had a HIPAA breach, the name of your practice is permanently listed on “The Wall of Shame”–including the offense, date, and number of individuals affected. The federal fines for noncompliance are based on the level of perceived negligence found within your organization at the time of the HIPAA violation. These fines can range from $100 to $50,000 per violation (or per record), with a maximum penalty of $1.5 million per year for each violation.

These Violations Can Be a Result Of:

Lack of Business Associate Agreements (BAA)
Unsecure electronic Protected Health Information (ePHI)
Lack of Risk Mitigation Processes and timely communication
Failure to remove access of ex-employees
Failure to understand basic requirements and risks
Malware infections and lack of security controls

What Makes an Effective Compliance Program?

Every organization handling ePHI is subject to HIPAA, therefore, being at some level of security risk. To help ensure the security and confidentiality of ePHI, there are several actions your company can take to ensure you and your processes are safe.

Security Risk Assessment
Privacy Assessment
Security Standards Audit
Asset and Device Audit
Physical Site Audit
HITECH Audit

How AccelHealth Systems Can Help

AccelHealth Systems provides intelligent, automated, and secure solutions for healthcare organizations. Our smart solution tools simplify the management of patient information and may reduce the cost of compliance to HIPAA and other regulations. Medical practices can now capture and convert structured and non-structured information such as claims, patient forms, insurance cards, and more, with intelligent scanning technology. This is then followed by the indexing of documents based on customized criteria so that they can be found again with just a few quick clicks.

By implementing our smart solutions, your organization will have confidence knowing that your company is fully HIPAA compliant and guard against costly penalties.

A Sneak Peek Into ClaimXtractor

Tue, 15 Nov 2022 14:57:17 GMT

A Sneak Peek Into ClaimXtractor

AccelHealth is looking for clients in healthcare organizations who are still using manual data entry to process claim forms such as CMS 1500 and UB-04/CMS-1450. Our solution virtually eliminates the drawbacks of manual data entry and offshore processing, such as:

Inherent security risks of sending data offshore
Inaccuracy from human error
Long turnaround and response cycles due to time zone differences
Lack of scalability

In order to minimize costs, most organizations processing claims rely on offshore labor to handle data entry for patient information. These cost savings do not come without risk as healthcare organizations typically lack the same level of control over offshore staff and facilities as with onshore entities. By the very nature of offshoring, risk exposure is increased as data is transmitted outside the US, and access is provided to foreign nationals.

For our customers, security is not the only concern with offshore data entry. We are frequently told that processing times are routinely longer than expected, and the difference in time zones makes timely communication difficult. On top of this, they find a significant number of errors that require resolution, causing unexpected work on their end. They also found that outsourcing firms struggle to scale with business growth and temporary spikes in claims. This challenge has been exacerbated by the ongoing pandemic as the outsourcing firms have faced diminished capacity.

Since ClaimXtractor is a digital solution hosted in the US and built on a scalable platform, we can overcome these challenges at a competitive price point.

Our solution?

ClaimXtractor leverages cutting-edge technology to automatically extract claim data and provide it to your claim management and billing systems in a structured format. Our powerful yet simple solution lets you easily capture data from medical billing and claim documents, such as CMS 1500 and UB-04/CMS-1450 forms. Simply upload the document images and receive back an 837 file or other preferred formats. If needed, our development team can assist with integrating our solution into your IT environment to make the process as seamless as possible! What's the best part? You can ditch your dreaded manual process! Jobes Techs ClaimXtractor is a secure, accurate, and efficient solution that streamlines your medical claims process in 3 easy steps!

Scan physical or receive a digital claim form.
Upload claim images to ClaimXtractor
Receive back 837 files or your preferred data format.

What does "ClaimXtractor" mean for you?

By reimagining current claim processes, healthcare organizations can now use technology to transform data to improve healthcare workflows, and the benefits are apparent!

Eliminate manual data entry and reduce the risk of human error
Remove security risks associated with offshore data entry
Speed up reconciliation and eliminate backlogs
Improve cash flow by automating your process
Be prepared for growth with on-demand scalability to handle millions of claims

With so much pressure to eliminate errors, stay secure, and reduce costs, you would expect all health care organizations to have automated their claim form processes! Surprisingly, that's far from the case! Until now, there has not been a solution that can tackle the wide range in format and quality for medical claims. At AccelHealth, we combined our domain expertise with machine learning technology to make this level of automation possible with ClaimXtractor!

Providing Better Healthcare Processes Through Automation

Tue, 15 Nov 2022 14:55:57 GMT

Providing Better Healthcare Processes Through Automation

Variations of automation have been around for thousands of years, from the Mayans automating water transportation through aqueducts to Henry Ford's automation of the mechanical assembly line. However, the technology available to businesses years ago is not even a tenth of today's capabilities. Automation is now changing how organizations operate using advances in technology to optimize processes, personalize customer experiences and enhance decision making. One way to do this is by utilizing automation tools and applying them to existing workflows that are typically manual or paper based.

Automation Applied to Healthcare Organizations

Manual, paper-based healthcare processes can take weeks to gather and enter substantial amounts of information, frequently resulting in delays, data errors, and reputation damage to the company. Automating existing workflows allows you to complete repetitive tasks quickly and more accurately than was previously possible. It also allows employees to focus more time on adding value to your organization and patients. For example, medical practices can now capture and convert structured and non-structured data from medical records, claims, patient forms, and insurance cards with minimal manual intervention.

Automation to Comply with Regulations

Automation not only eliminates manually intensive processes like data entry, complex error tracking, and integration of claim-relevant data sources, but it also allows your organization to comply with strict regulations. By implementing compliance automation, your organization will gain assurance knowing that health information storage and transfers are secure. How exactly can automation help organizations meet the regulations? Let's take a look:

Access control: Limit the number of employees with role-based access that can log in and see specific data and documents
Record Management: Automatically manage record lifecycles and notify Record Managers when records are ready for archiving or disposition.
Activity Auditing: Automation technology can track and record all activities within a system, allowing you to demonstrate compliance and detect suspicious activity.

Transforming your healthcare processes means thinking about business processes needing to be reengineered or reimagined. Although modern technology and change can seem daunting, the benefits your organization will gain are truly extraordinary:

Eliminate manual data entry
Reduce risk of human error
Devote more time and money to improving patient experiences
Eliminate security risks
Cut operational costs
Speed up turnaround times
Avoid fees for missing deadlines on bills and claims

Revolutionizing Medical Claims and Bill Processing with Advanced Automation with Medical Outcome Indicators

Tue, 15 Nov 2022 14:54:45 GMT

Revolutionizing Medical Claims and Bill Processing with Advanced Automation with Medical Outcome Indicators

Xtelligent Healthcare Media recently hosted Medical Outcome Indicators (MOI) and Jobes Technology Solutions on a live webcast to discuss how MOI has revolutionized how networks work with insurers and providers with an automation-first strategy.

Medical Outcome Indicator's Founder and Chairman, Dr. Shannon Vissman PT, is no stranger to managing a large network of healthcare providers. Before MOI, he founded (and later sold) Universal SmartComp, a leading physical medicine network. Looking to improve on his prior success, Dr. Vissman rethought network management and medical oversight from the ground up. In building MOI, his team has leveraged advanced data analysis and automation technologies to not only create a unique value proposition but also build a business that operates efficiently and scales to manage rapid growth.

In the recent webcast, "Revolutionizing Medical Claims and Bill Processing with Advanced Automation," Dr. Vissman spoke about the struggles that faced his company before automation. He states, "We had physical therapists and occupational therapists that reached out to the providers directly on every bill and every note. It was a costly way to do business. The most troublesome process came with managing all the notes and bills. Providers would mail us bills; we would have to scan them, copy them, and give them to our therapists to review. The therapists would then talk to the injured workers, resulting in a very manual process in sending the bills and sending the updates to the clients. This process took a whole lot of people. We had about 250 employees, and now we could do the same volume today that we did with 250 employees with about 50. ClaimXtractor is a huge advantage."

Knowing modern technology could solve these challenges, MOI partnered with Jobes Technology Solutions to digitize their claim processing, billing, and medical management workflows, applying automation wherever possible. A key driver for these automated processes is data captured from claim forms such as CMS 1500 and UB-04s. For automation to be successful, this data must have a high degree of accuracy, and in true MOI fashion, the process for getting data must be automated.

The captured claim information delivers value beyond automated bill processing. It helps fuel MOI's data-driven approach to medical management that leads to better patient outcomes. By getting patients the right treatment faster, MOI's proprietary system reduces recovery times, and as a result, minimizes the overall cost of care.