The Role of Digital Health in Quality Reporting

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the role of digital health in quality reporting

The Importance of Quality Reporting

With constant access to the internet, consumers can shop around for the best product and services for almost every scenario. This even includes their healthcare. Patients no longer continue going to the same hospital because they were born there, their family does, or it is closest. Patients can pick and choose their doctor or hospital based on their quality reporting scores, patient outcomes, and cost. Various websites provide this service, as well as Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) or Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) public data.

Whether it is weak quality reports, lackluster patient outcomes, or high costs, patients will seek out other physicians to ultimately find the best care (See Your MIPS Score Stays with You). With the increase in healthcare locations across the country, some patients now have the option to choose their provider and institution at which to receive care. The rise of mobile technology is lending to patients receiving their care at home, saving time and effort on their end while improving the overall patient experience for the healthcare system. This newfound choice creates a greater emphasis on physicians and hospitals to pay attention to their quality reporting and patient outcomes.

The numbers of patients with multiple comorbidities are higher than ever before. These comorbidities and chronic conditions are extremely impactful to the care a physician gives to their patient. In addition, chronic conditions and comorbidities are impactful in understanding the way a patient responds to treatment and recovers from surgeries and other interventions. It is essential that physicians are collecting data, not only thorough past medical history for their patients, but also medications, and family health history.

The Role of Digital Health in Quality Reporting

For a practice to effectively collect this much data for each patient, it is incredibly time-consuming. A significant amount of time is required to not only have the patient read and sign consent forms, but also to complete intake forms for necessary information, and input all of this into the electronic medical record for the physician to read. Time and resources are precious in clinical and hospital settings, which is why it is so important to implement technology that aids clinical and hospital staff in completing this.

cliexa not only digitizes all consent forms and intake questions but discretely integrates each aspect of the clinical forms into the electronic medical record (EMR). Medical data now appears instantly in the EMR, just like a staff member or a medical assistant would have typed it. Medical staff and physicians can then review the information that is already in the EMR and proceed to treat the patient from a well-rounded point of view. cliexa allows the patient to complete their consent and intake forms while away from the clinic. Patients download the cliexa application and complete their paperwork, taking the time constraints away from the clinic or hospital, and allowing the patient to be more thorough in their information.

Receiving accurate and thorough past medical history, medications, and family history have huge effects on patients’ outcomes and quality reporting. A physician can use cliexa to identify a higher incidence of heart disease in a patient’s family and use this information to not only order tests and screen for heart disease in their patient but also discuss weight-loss strategies and lifestyle changes [1]. Our platform is designed to aid a physician in their foresight to catch an issue before it arises. This helps ensure physician’s patient outcomes and naturally improves quality reporting. Likewise, a surgeon can utilize cliexa and identify if their patient is a current smoker. They can use this information to assess the increased risk their patient has when consenting to elective surgery [2]. By including that data in their reporting, they are not only protecting themselves but can also start a conversation regarding smoking cessation with that patient.

In a time when quality reporting and patient outcomes not only influence your success as a physician but also how many patients you see and retain, it is more important than ever to partner with cliexa to help you achieve this. It is becoming more important to understand the needs and desires of patients to ensure your MIPS scores do not suffer, and virtual health is one way to address changing patient needs.  While patient experience is subject to change over time, quality reporting, patient outcomes, and physician ratings are only updated every two years. From the time you notice that your data is negative, it will take an additional two years to see if your outcomes have changed positively. Time is of the essence to enhance your data, receive more patients, and improve your quality reporting and patient outcomes.

[1] Moonesinghe, R., Yang, Q., Zhang, Z., & Khoury, M. J. (2019, July 16). Prevalence and Cardiovascular Health Impact of Family History of Premature Heart Disease in the United States: Analysis of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2007-2014. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6662130/

[2] Theadom, A., & Cropley, M. (2006, October). Effects of preoperative smoking cessation on the incidence and risk of intraoperative and postoperative complications in adult smokers: a systematic review. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2563647/

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Tracking the Spread of COVID-19

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tracking the spread of COVID-19

The news of Coronavirus skyrocketing in China peaked during the month of January. At this time, the virus seemed so far away from our reality. Quickly, the virus has spread across the world. The testing for COVID-19 has become more advanced by the week and every day we see hundreds if not thousands more confirmed cases. Track the spread of COVID-19 here.

What can we do to prevent the spread of COVID-19?

As a healthy young individual, the most effective thing you can do is stay home and prevent the spread of this potentially deadly virus. Each citizen plays a large role in spreading the virus to others. The American population who are elderly or immunocompromised are at a higher risk for developing symptoms of the COVID-19 virus. Because of this, ALL citizens are at risk of spreading the virus and should take the quarantine seriously.

The CDC’s guidelines for how to prevent the spread of COVID-19 are conservative at this point. Wash your hands frequently and stay away from densely populated areas. This includes restaurants, bars, and stores. To bolster the prevention of the virus, counties in the San Francisco Bay area have placed a “shelter in place” order. Preventative measures like this will likely spread to other large cities in the coming days.

An important resource to note is the CDC’s guidelines for assessing risk in citizens that have potential exposure to the virus. Be sure to know the signs and symptoms of the virus and utilize any local drive-thru testing centers. Many hospitals are allowing at-risk citizens to call their hotline for remote screening of COVID-19. It’s important for citizens to stay up-to-date on recent news and be prepared to stay home in the coming weeks. As the spread of COVID-19 continues to ramp up in the US, it will be important that everyone does their part.

Work from home, avoid crowded areas, and prepare to stay home for at least the next three weeks. Preventing this virus starts with each individual making a choice to change their lifestyle for the better of their communities. The reason that China was able to reduce the spreading of COVID-19 is because they were willing to effectively quarantine.

How can we track the spread of COVID-19 more effectively?

Testing in the United States is slowly climbing. But, because of limited testing kits across the country, hospitals are being sure to utilize tests on only higher-risk citizens. As of now, people who have not been in direct contact with a confirmed case of Coronavirus are considered low-risk. However, citizens living in densely populated areas with high contact should assume that they have been exposed to the virus. Even if they are not tested, low-risk citizens should take all the same precautions as high-risk individuals to decrease the spread of COVID-19.

Digital healthcare technologies have been integral in tracking COVID-19. Here is how some tech companies are helping to control the spread of the virus. cliexa has incorporated the CDC’s risk assessment guidelines into a platform that can compile data and assess the risk of each patient that is worried about their exposure. This platform provides patient-reported data on risk and symptoms to physicians. This helps healthcare professionals better manage the amount of exposure cases across the nation. We are offering free demos of this platform. You can visit our contact page to schedule a time with our team to learn about the COVID-19 screening application offered through the cliexa platform.

 

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cliexa CEO Featured in #AskTheCEO Podcast

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cliexa CEO featured in #AskTheCEO podcast

cliexa’s CEO & Founder, Mehmet Kazgan, is featured in the #AskTheCEO Podcast! The #AskTheCEO Podcast host is Avrohom Gottheil, CEO of #AskTheCEO Media.

In this #AskTheCEO episode, Mehmet and Avrohom sit down and discuss the importance of artificial intelligence in healthcare. During the conversation, the two talk about the importance of utilizing innovative technology. This technology is essential in order to stay at the forefront of patient care. As diseases and viruses continue to evolve over time, new healthcare technologies give rise to revolutionary developments. Data collection and AI capabilities are now moving at a pace to evolve and keep up with new diseases and viruses around the world. It is up to the healthcare industry to utilize tools like cliexa in order to compile data and start improving patient outcomes.

cliexa allows for efficient tracking of data, allowing physicians to compile information and make better, more informed decisions on patient treatment plans. This is based on patient outcomes, symptoms, and treatment plans over time. This way, physicians can collect data on what treatments are more effective than others. They can also track patient medication management

Through AI capabilities, cliexa can help to predict optimized treatment plans based on past data collected. Now that cliexa is available on the Azure Marketplace, more physicians and healthcare systems can implement this technology. The Azure Marketplace offers digital platforms to improve healthcare efficiency for users. To learn more about cliexa’s capabilities and how they can benefit patients, physicians, and payors, contact us to schedule a demo here.

 

 

 

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cliexa now Available in Microsoft Azure Marketplace

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The cliexa platform is now available on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace!

Microsoft Azure Marketplace provides applications for a range of purposes, including AI & machine learning, analytics, and blockchain. cliexa’s feature in the Azure Marketplace is an exciting step for our team. This promotion attests to the platform’s credibility and success over the years.

Microsoft Azure allows cliexa to reach the hands of many healthcare professionals and patients that desire better solutions. Many problems currently face the healthcare industry. Issues like physician burnout, patient to provider communication, and rejected reimbursements are all addressed with cliexa. The availability of cliexa on Azure Marketplace helps introduce an innovative solution to healthcare systems across the country.

How Does this Help cliexa and the Healthcare Industry?

Allowing healthcare professionals to search for a desirable digital platform when they are ready to adopt innovative technology is key. Azure Marketplace helps to promote the cliexa platform and make this helpful technology available to more clinicians who need to save time, money, and increase compliance and reimbursements.

Many healthcare clinics have adopted the cliexa platform and seen great success. New Health Services adopted the cliexa platform in 2019 and has seen a significant decrease in costs. They have decreased over 2.5 hours spent each day on intake documentation, billing documents, and information integration into the EMR. Over time, these hours translate into valuable cost savings for users of the cliexa platform.

 

In addition to costs, the cliexa platform integrates patient engagement right into the client’s existing EMR. The various specialty platforms allow for the communication of patient-reported outcomes to allow physicians to better treat patients suffering from chronic illness over time. In summary, the platform provides benefits for physicians, patients, and payors alike.

With the cliexa platform now available on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace, customers can now purchase and deploy the platform and reap the many benefits of utilizing this innovative software. cliexa’s platform can benefit many more healthcare clinicians and, in turn, help create better outcomes for patients.

Learn more about the cliexa platform by visiting our page on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace!

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Addressing EMR-Related Issues with a Care Management Platform

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Addressing EMR-Related Issues with A Care Management Platform

Introduction to cliexa’s Care Management Platform

There is a need for additional digital health and care management platforms to alleviate some of the burdens of the electronic medical record (EMR) through enhanced customization, streamlined data collection, and integrated compliance algorithms into a digital patient intake and remote monitoring platform, like cliexa.

cliexa’s care management solution is designed to increase clinical efficiency by providing digitized intake forms and qualifying patients for reimbursements automatically. This process aims to streamline the documentation and data collection procedure so that providers spend less time documenting, and more time with their patients.

Through an automated process, clinical metrics and quality data, via patient-reported outcomes, integration into the Merit-based Incentive Payment (MIPS) quality reports can be done in the EMR to maximize compliance and reimbursements. This technology empowers clinicians to make intelligent correlations between: 

  • Medical History
  • Clinical Assessments
  • Surveys and Questionnaires
  • Connected Device Data
  • Payor Claims Data
  • Medication Adherence

How are the barriers to EMRs for the physicians addressed by cliexa?

Coordinating care for better diagnosis 

Patients can check their progress from their handsets or tablets, which is subsequently sent to their physicians in a consistent and objectified approach in order to measure their disease activity scores. This information is then passed through the cliexa Cloud into the provider’s existing EMR system.

Along with serving as a chronic care management system, a care management platform like cliexa, are employed for clinical trials, to process digital forms which are sent to an existing EMR system, for the remote management of patients’ progress.

Improved accuracy and reproducibility of data

Patient-reported outcomes (PROs) measure any phase of a patient’s condition and health status directly from the patient, regardless of the analysis of the patient’s responses by a clinician or anyone else. This naturally advances the precision of how, why and what the patient is going through and can be interpreted into disease activity scores to evaluate the severity of the disease. 

Reduced external pressures on Physician-Patient relationship

Physician burnout, compressed clinical grids, greater medical complexity, EMR coverage, increasing costs, variable medical data, reduced reimbursement, advertisement and marketing are the identified external pressures on the physician-patient relationship. Smart systems like cliexa, address these issues through the implementation of PROs.

Clinicians have found PROs to be a useful mechanism for shared decision-making in the right environment with the right workload. This facilitates achievable endpoints that promote the physician-patient relationship by better time management, a common platform for patients and clinicians to trace and envision their disease activity and simplified documentation.

Less time consumption and ease of implementation 

Flawless integration into the current workflow, customizable evaluation and questionnaires configure effortlessly with your EMR system. The cliexa Cloud passes the information responded by the patients in the care management platform directly to your EMR, customized depending on your preference.

The system sets in with no disturbance in your workflow and requires approximately one day to set up without any IT commitments. The information is sent to the clinicians’ files in the formats of your choice to verify data quality before full integration.

Customizability is how cliexa deals with all the reservations over implementation. The platform is structured according to the requirements of the physicians, patients, and the healthcare composition, without the need for an on-site IT team. The staff training can be done in a day along with minimally invasive implementation, meaning simplicity throughout the course of implementation.

Cost-effectiveness and reimbursements 

The healthcare systems are known to have the following reservations with PROs; high capital investment needed, physician engagement, information management requirements, integration of knowledge, privacy considerations and the management of critical or missing information.

cliexa attends to these considerations through a reimbursement structure and flawless integration. Although investment is one of the key considerations, the software links providers and payors to rationalize the process of Content Management System (CMS) and payor compensation.

cliexa has formulated the ROI calculator on the platform for the people who choose to go for its reimbursement structure. The physician engagement and management requirements are addressed by focusing on time management and easing the procedure as per the interest of the physicians.

Better patient experience and versatility of use

cliexa is a free-to-use care management platform for patients, available on the App Stores for all mobile platforms. This includes devices such as smartphones or tablets that consist of the app store for download. Unlike other patient platforms, cliexa is independent of clinics or healthcare offices. This means that it is available for the personal use of the patients.

Even if the physician’s office does not use the software, patients can still track their condition and its progress by using this versatile software. With the application storing your history, you can have your data accessible when switching over to a new clinic or healthcare provider simply but updating the care treatment plan.

Privacy and confidentiality

All the rules of privacy and security laid down by HIPAA guidelines are followed in order to protect your information. It is further ensured that any data is not being shared with anyone other than your healthcare providers. The software in the clinics and on patients’ devices is updated automatically by a remote device management system.

All of the aforementioned points are promising ways through which the EMR-related issues can be potentially addressed. However, cliexa or any other smart software is not a direct and the most precise way of diagnosis, rather it is a means to follow the health progress, functioning alongside primary care. Thus, if you are experiencing consistent symptoms of a chronic condition or a health issue, make it your first priority to visit your healthcare center for a checkup by the primary care provider.

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