OptimumSeries Now Supports ICD-10 Coding

Software has been enhanced to support the ICD10 codes. In an effort to ensure that our clients have sufficient time to plan and implement the needed changes to support ICD-10, the software has been enhanced to handle the ICD10 coding.

CMS Deadlines
•March 31, 2013: Internal impact assessment: Determine how ICD-10 codes will affect your organization.
•May 31, 2013: External impact assessment: Understand how ICD-10 implementation will affect your payers, vendors and other partners. How will you need to support their compliance?
•May 31, 2013: Baseline budget formulation: Figure out how much the ICD-10 transition will cost.
•Through June 31, 2013: Education: Raise ICD-10 awareness requirements and formal training for key personnel.
•Dec. 31, 2013: Business process changes: Upgrade systems, procedures and technologies.
•March 31, 2014: Internal testing and validation: ICD-10 codes must work in your organization
•Sept. 30, 2014: External testing and validation: Test transactions and medical claims with your partners.

CMS Implementation Guide //www.cms.gov/Medicare/Coding/ICD10/downloads/ICD10SmallandMediumPractices508.pdf

CMS ICD-10 Transition Basics //www.cms.gov/Medicare/Coding/ICD10/Downloads/ICD10FAQs.pdf

Healthcare IT News ICD10Watch //www.icd10watch.com/category/blogtags/cms-0

HL7 Gateway for COMS Interactive.

Announcing the availability of the HL7 Gateway for COMS Interactive. The gateway sends ADT information directly to the COMS system. Exchanging data reduces the work needed to process patients and creates better communication with the Vendor Rehabilitation Company.

Once the HL7 Gateway is installed, Admissions Discharges Transfer information is automatically sent to the COMS. The COMS Medicare progress notes are scheduled to auto-populate the facility’s database by the end of the year.

COMS Interactive combines disease management, long term healthcare knowledge and business administration to reduce unnecessary hospital readmissions, improve resident healthcare and increase facility revenue. These processes can save lives and billions of dollars, and can turn every COMS facility into a profit center filled with healthier, more stable residents.

For more information: //comsllc.com/
 
 
 
 
 

HL7 Gateway with HealthPRO

Announcing the availability of the HL7 Gateway for HealthPRO Rehabilitation for clients using the services of HealthPRO Rehabilitation. The gateway sends ADT information directly to the HealthPRO system. Exchanging data reduces the paperwork needed to process a patient and creates better communication with the Vendor Rehabilitation Company.

Once the gateway is installed, Admission, Discharge, Transfer information is automatically sent to the HealthPRO. Results are scheduled to be exchanged by the end of the year.

Servicing hospitals, Life Plan Communities (Continuing Care Retirement Communities (CCRCs)), SNF/Subacute centers, AL/IL, outpatient clinics, schools and home health settings, HealthPRO® has earned a reputation for excellence, integrity and innovation.

For more information: //www.healthpro-rehab.com/

 
 
 
 
 

New Task List Function

Modeled after Microsoft’s Office Outlook program, this new feature enables users to make lists of things you need to do and check them off as you’re done. Just click and type to add new tasks and set due dates. Separate Task lists can be built for the patients, nursing unit or yourself.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Manage Your Content with EMC Documentum & Access It With OptimumSeries

OptimumSeries modules now provide Direct Interfaces to EMC’s Documentum Platform. This allows users to directly access to content (documents, photos, videos and medical images) via context defined searches when working in the OptimumSeries User Interface (GUI).

EMC Documentum provides for managing different types of content including business documents, photos, video, medical images, e-mail, XML-tagged documents, … etc. The Documentum Core is a repository in which the content is stored securely under compliance rules. This repository appears as a unified environment, although content may reside on multiple servers and physical storage devices.

Documentum provides a suite of services which include document management, collaboration, search, content classification, input management, customer communication management, Web content management, digital asset management, forms processing, Information Rights Management, compliance, and archiving.