Transcript PowerPoint Presentation - HealthLine Systems, Inc.

Fortis:
A Healthcare Solution for
Medical Records, Billing and HIPAA
from
Westbrook Technologies
SLIDE 1
Fortis for Healthcare –
A strategic weapon
Fortis document management speeds
access to information, streamlines
processing, allows for collaboration and
provides security for documents
throughout healthcare organizations
ranging from medical practices, service
providers, clinics, HMOs, hospitals and
pharmacies.
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Healthcare: Key Challenges
• Contain the cost-of-care upward spiral
• Attain best-in-class quality of care
• Speed up diagnosis and consultation time
• Assimilate and adopt leading-edge technology
• Improve information exchange and care accuracy
• Compliance: HIPAA, FDA, Certifications
SLIDE 3
Electronic Patient Records
• Healthcare industry can save $77 billion by adoption of
electronic medical records technology. [RAND 2007]
• Today, 15-20% of medical offices employ electronic patient
records. [RAND 2007]
• Today, 20-25% of hospitals employ electronic patient records.
[RAND 2007]
• Healthcare, over the past 18 months, has become the largest
and fastest growing market segment for Fortis document
management.
– 40% of use is electronic medical records
– 40% of use is for patient billing and EOB
SLIDE 4
Document Management for Electronic
Medical Records
• Simple and easy to implement
• Replaces paper patient records and archives with immediate
ROI
• Enables physicians to maintain current work practices:
– Does NOT require any menu-driven patient information input
workflows
– Can use current paper-based note taking during office visits
– Provides flexibility to access patient charts immediately at remote
locations
• Can also be implemented in concert with a formal EMR system
– Link external information (lab reports, correspondence from
specialists, signed consent forms) to EMR records
SLIDE 5
HIPAA Background
The Health Insurance Portability and
Accountability Act (HIPAA), and its
enabling regulations, ensures patient
information and records are protected
and maintain their integrity.
This requires health care organizations to
control the use and access to a patient’s
private identity and medical information.
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HIPAA Defines Regulations For:
• Electronic healthcare transactions
• Health information privacy
• Security requirements
• Unique identification for providers
• Unique identification for health plans
• Enforcement procedures
SLIDE 7
Status of HIPAA Compliance
• Facilities reporting full compliance in 2006: 40%
• Facilities reporting less than 85% compliance in 2006 rose
from 9 to 15%
– (Source: AHIMA, May 2006)
SLIDE 8
How Westbrook Technologies
Works with HIPAA
Westbrook Technologies offers integrated
solutions for electronic patient records
and for processing electronic and paperbased healthcare claims.
What follows are a few of the ways
Westbrook Technologies’ product suite
can help organizations meet their
objective of becoming HIPAA compliant.
SLIDE 9
First: Security
Fortis’ security model is of the highest
integrity.
• Users must be authenticated before
access is permitted.
• Access can be restricted at different
levels, giving only authorized people
access to confidential documents within
a patient's folder.
This adheres to HIPAA rules that require
information be protected from improper
access or alteration.
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Second: Audit Trail
Fortis users have the ability to track every
aspect of the patient record. They can:
• Track who viewed a document and when
they viewed it.
• Determine who e-mailed, who printed, and
who faxed a patient record.
• See when patient information was scanned
into the system, who scanned it, who
viewed it after it was scanned, etc.
Audit Trail helps enforce rules that state users
must account for each disclosure of a patient
record.
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Third: Fortis Office
This option allows correspondence and
forms created in Microsoft Word, Excel,
and Outlook to be forwarded into patient
records stored in Fortis.
Information such as correspondence,
emailed lab reports and the like can be
included inside the same protected
repository as all other documents,
helping to ensure that patient information
remains in a secure location.
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Fourth: Electronic Payment
Standardization
HIPAA’s requirements call for electronic
payment standardization. Fortis ERM,
our Electronic Report Management
module, allows Fortis to act as a secure
repository for reports from billing
systems, Lawson ERP and other
systems.
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What Does This All Mean to
Healthcare Organizations?
Regardless of where patient information
originates: scanned from hard copy, faxed, emailed, PC-based or mainframe-based,
Westbrook Technologies provides a secure
repository that can track all aspects of patient
information.
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ROI:
• Access and quality of care: users report
very significant gains in fast access to
patient information.
• Reduce costs associated with copying
and retrieving health information.
• Ensure aspects of system are
compliant.
• Health information is more tightly
controlled, while at the same time
more accessible to those who need it.
• Data is protected.
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Flexible and Scalable
• Small Medical Practice Applications:
– Electronic patient records
– Billing, insurance EOB
– Personnel records
• Hospital Applications:
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Patient records and consent forms linked to EMR system
Accounts Payable
Billing
HR and credentialing
Purchasing and supply chain