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11 Jul 2016

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Your Health Specialist is Just a Click Away!

Healthcare industry is coming up with novel ideas so as to meet the needs of the people in their busy lives. With advancing technology, the idea of consulting a doctor through mobile app is the latest in the league.

Introduction to Mobile Apps

Mobile apps can enable people to seek virtual medical help just through a Smartphone from anywhere in the world without actually visiting the doctor. The technology basically exploits artificial intelligence to consult healthcare specialists.

Features

This mobile device or the smart phone just acts as an interface between a patient and a doctor, where the artificially intelligent doctor keeps track of the patient’s medical records, habits, diet and what not. The mobile app also features the user to video conference with doctors employed by the company. Amongst the other services provided to the user which includes health monitoring facility, booking of appointments as well as ordering of medical tests, the mobile app also allows its user to video conference with doctors employed by the company. Thus the major features of this kind of mobile app are easy access to patient’s health data, convenient medical appointment with specialists as well as remote health monitoring of patients.

Digitization: A boon to Healthcare Industry

Many new start-ups are hiring high-end scientists as well as software engineers so as to develop a virtual arrangement which would fulfill the various needs of its patients. A UK based healthcare start-up Babylon Health is putting in huge investments in order to develop a highly specialized and customized mobile app, where in numerous of its registered users will be provided with a variety of health services. About 60 companies and various health insurance providers have partnered with Babylon so as to offer employee health plans. Once the user speaks into a phone, the computer puts forward several questions related to the illness, its symptoms and then accordingly the course of treatment is determined. Digitization of healthcare industry has promoted various players to introduce a number of smart apps in the digital world. This innovation in healthcare industry is a big boon in disguise and surely has a brighter future for patients.

Digitization of Healthcare with Attune

Attune Technologies has been at the forefront of the digitization of healthcare with its innovative solutions to help patients and healthcare providers connect better. Most recently, we launched Attune Mobility Solutions – a suite of apps designed by doctors and developed by experts to create seamless communication, offering timely inputs for better patient care. It allows different groups of health workers such as nutritionists, physiotherapists, staff and ward nurses to integrate on a single platform, giving doctors a complete picture. Improved collaboration and real time diagnostics with specialized alerts for emergencies ensure that the patient is well taken care of.

06 Jul 2016

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Key Features Of A Hospital Information System

7 features that are unique to HIS and essential to the hospital’s performance.

Hospital Information System (HIS) brings along many features, some of them unique to the automated hospital processes. We bring you some of the key features HIS users have experienced and swear by.

1. Need for Speed

As most of the processes in HIS implemented hospitals are automated and since software and servers are hardly ever known to slow down, speed is one constant feature of HIS. The communication between various interlinked departments, the reporting of various tests, the emergency as well as non-emergency communications etc. are speeded up because of HIS and the over all operational efficiency goes up by many notches.

2. Easy Access

Quick and easy access to all data that a particular login allows is a winning feature of HIS. Hospitals generate a lot of data and lots of them are required to be stored, mandatorily as part of legal requirements. This data, which is at times required within seconds, is also crucial in making important treatment decisions. Quick and easy access to this data makes the decisions timely and increases the quality of patient care in the hospital.

3. Plug Revenue Leakage

Automated processes on HIS do not face the fatigue or stress of a human. Once coded and implemented HIS will be practically on autopilotthus further impacting process efficiency positively. With HIS implemented a test or service or drug rate will never be billed wrongly or missed in the hurry of billing quickly for patient discharge. Just selecting the name of the service, test or drug will automatically also select the rate and bill it to the selected patient ID ensuring you don’t leave money on the table

4. Error Free

Another feature that comes along with HIS is minimum human intervention, as most of the processes are automated. After the initial implementation, the processes will run on their own with just the minimum mandatory inputs from employees. This also ensures that there are minimum errors owing to employee faults. Also the manpower can be spared the mundane repetitive tasks and can be utilized in roles that require human intervention mandatorily. Like in a drug chart in IPD module, only entering the name of the drug once (when it is prescribed) is enough. It need not be entered everyday in the records. Just ticking the administration of the drug everyday is enough. The same will be reflected in the drug administration sheet, the sub store etc.

5. Reduced Supervision

Lowermanual activity also means less need for supervision. As most of the processes are automated, the software is coded to perform each task in a certain manner based on the inputs the employee punches in. For example, when a report on bed ratio is needed; the software is coded to generate many reports based on the data that it holds on its server with a few clicks. The software will throw up the requested reports to help you track the metrics that matter to you most.

6. Accountability

HIS comes with logins. Every employee who needs to work on HIS is given an individual login with access controls. Every task happens through logins, only. HIS gives the kind of accountability that manual processes never manage to give.

7. Cost Effective

HIS implementation means less storage space required, less stationary used, manpower can be utilized for other important activities. All these make HIS cost effective and with the improved operational efficiency and resultant quality patient care, it contributes directly toimproved revenues.

To know how other organizations benefited from HIS automation, click here.

04 Jul 2016

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9 Benefits Of Practice Management System That Every Modern Clinic Needs

There are several challenges that medical practitioners face on a daily basis trying to run a successful and effective clinical practice. The key ones being the need to increase revenue reduce cost and improve operational efficiency without compromising on quality patient care.

The Attune Practice Management System has been designed by practicing doctors who understand the challenges of medical practice.

Here we look at the top 9 benefits of Practice Management System:

Follow your progress-anytime anywhere

Track performance on a regular basis to create better business strategies. Evaluate your clinics performance on a daily basis on a single screen which allows you to detect issues immediately and resolve them before they escalate. This tool helps you to implement new actions, analyze your true potential so as to increase profitability and boost productivity.

Save time

The simple intuitive patient dashboard allows quick access to medical details and patient history. View key vital trends, treatment plans and test reports on a single screen and get critical information at a glance. A strong practice management system will have an efficient registration process, wherein unique patient id and visit id is created for every instant visit registration so as to ensure that more patients are treated within the same given time, thus generating greater revenue.

Get more referrals

Providing state of the art service to the patient results in increased patient satisfaction, which in turn leads to repeated visits and confidence in your care. This also brings in new patients through referrals and a positive “word of mouth”.

Increase Revenue

The powerful MIS dashboard allows easy access to financial, operational, inventory, clinical and treatment based reports available in custom formats. Track the metrics most important for your business and accordingly simulate strategies to maximize revenues.

Eliminate pilferage

Attunes advanced inventory modules allows you to manage logistics efficiently and helps automate purchase based on concepts such as predictive reordering and expiration alerts. Thus you can put an end to pilferage, resource wastage and unnecessary costs.

Automate resource allocation

Resource allocation for every procedure can be automated with the predefined and custom defined treatment kits. The ambiguity over material wastage can now be totally avoided as this tool helps in maintaining schedules and track inventor in the course of the treatment.

Improve the overall operational efficiency

Attunes calendar facilitates scheduling rescheduling and easy tracking of patients appointments by the consultant or the treatment center. Appointment confirmations are automatically updated with the additional auto e-mail confirmation tool. The overall operational efficiency of the clinic can be improved with this efficient and fastest scheduling tool.

Flexible payment system

The maximum complications arise in the payment and billing section. Attunes robust billing module handles large number of patients efficiently by minimizing delays and reducing the time taken to settle the bill. Further, mapping different insurance clients for credit customers eliminates confusion and error in billing, making it easier for cashier to handle the complexities.

Get the cloud advantage

It’s on cloud. Thus there is no need for expensive servers, hardware or additional resources. All you need is a PC and internet to get automated.

29 Jun 2016

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5 Essential Points To Evaluate Before You Commit to Buying A HIS Software

Hospital Information System Evaluation Checklist.

Hospital Information System (HIS) is critical to automating your hospital processes and improving operational efficiently. However, HIS is also a big investment, not only in terms of money but also in terms of the change that it will bring in your hospital. HIS implementation demands the unlearning and relearning of methods through which many hospital processes are performed.

Here we list down 5 important points that needs to be considered in your to-buy or not-to-buy decision:

1. Is The HIS Customizable?

You need to be very clear on what features you want mandatorily in your software and what you are flexible about having (wish). Based on your wants list check how much customization will the software you are considering require and is it possible? Your operations team may want many automated features in your HIS to erase out manual processes but you need to analyze how important having these features are. Then you need to check if these features are a built-in part of the software or do they need to be customized. And most importantly are these features customizable and will they work efficiently?

2. Is The HIS Scalable?

HIS is a long-term investment, therefore you need to ensure that the software scales as the hospital grows. Compare the scalability quotient of the software, whether it can adapt to the projected growth of the company and handle the operations and the resultant data smoothly. The software should be capable of accommodating the additional processes load and data that will be generated because of the increased work.

3. Can The New HIS Be Integrated with The Current System?

In case of an existing and currently functional hospital, the processes are already in existence. The processes are possibly being performed in a semi-manual, semi-automated system. Loss of data is not a positive event in a functional process. Evaluate whether the transition from your current system to the new software will be smooth without data loss?

4. What Are The Provisions of Data Safety?

Hospitals generate huge quantity of data that are confidential. This data needs to be stored for certain duration of time (as per the law of the land) and needs to be accessed from time to time for clinical decisions. The HIS needs to be evaluated in terms ofdata security and backup. How will you retrieve, edit or erase data if you want to? How easy or not so easy is it? How will data access be restricted? And how easily can it be retrieved, if need be?

5. How Trainable Is The HIS That Is Being Considered?

Functional hospital or a new one, HIS implementation needs extensive training. You are implementing HIS to attain certain positive operations end results; the eventual success of the HIS will depend on how comfortable the end user is with the software. Evaluate how different is the new software from the current system? What is the difficulty level for the end users in your hospital? How long will it take for the end user to be comfortably trained in the new software? These are important points to consider before finalizing your HIS.

HIS is critical to your operations, so evaluate carefully before you take the plunge.

24 Jun 2016

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Current Challenges to Healthcare IT

Information Technology, which is largely (and rightly so) touted to improve healthcare comes with its own challenges, which has made the progress rather sluggish, and adoption low. Overcoming these challenges or working out alternate solutions is imperative for the better functionality of healthcare technologies and IT systems

Investment in HealthCare IT

Transiting to value-based reimbursement model – Better known as P4P or Pay for Performance, demands healthcare providers to meet certain performance measures for quality and efficiency. Healthcare IT can prove hugely beneficial in this case as hospitals always look for ways to be cost and care-efficient. The major challenge arises when senior management doesn’t quite appreciate the worth of investments in IT and Software to support this change

Reimbursements or Lower Compensations

Telemedicine can prove as a boon in case of huge cost reduction and far greater penetration of health services. According to a study by Towers Watson, an annual savings of $6 billion could accrue in healthcare costs if all currently deployed tele health applications could replace physician, emergency department, and urgent care visits. However, a major challenge to its successful implementation is that of reimbursement. A sizeable proportion of people who provide telemedicine services are either not reimbursed at all or receive lower compensation from care companies for telemedicine compared to in-person care.

Interoperability of IT systems

Another major challenge that needs to be overcome in order to drive adoption is the Interoperability of IT systems. EHRs maintained by separate providers are often disparate databases that either have little or no connection at all. This inhibits their potential to a greater extent of providing an integrated information repository of each patient that can be put to various primary and secondary uses, such as quality improvement. The lack of standardized reporting systems also contributes to the problem of decision making in the time of treatments.

These are the major challenges impacting the Healthcare IT industry in today’s world.

Source

https://www.foley.com/2014-telemedicine-survey-executive-summary/

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