Monday, November 2, 2015
5 reasons for implementing CDI solutions in your hospital.
Increasingly, healthcare leaders across the board are waking up to the need to institutionalize CDI, adapt and go forward with the CDI software in their healthcare set ups. Their aim? To drive better communication, improve quality of reporting, reduce financial overheads and as a larger picture, improve and pave way for quality patient care. CDI adoption has seen an upswing for these and many more operational reasons in the recent times. One reason for this can also be the increasing pressure from regulatory and financial institutions on hospitals to improve their existing clinical documentation processes. There is also an increasing agreement of opinions that healthcare leaders need to figure out ways to integrate CDI into their larger operational and financial healthcare plans. And while the debate carries on, here’s a dekko at the five main drivers, we think, that point to the urgency of installation of CDI in a typical hospital workflow.
Streamlined clinician engagement:
There are a lot of reasons why hospitals need to get their clinicians more involved. Compliance, patient security and data integrity are some to mention. The moment you get CDI on board, you get two things: information sharing and real time reporting. The result? A greater clarity in operations, and definitely better patient outcomes. As the CDI begins to work, and as you get your data in a more granular form, your clinicians will absorb data more efficiently, leaving them with more time to devote to their real passion, your patients.
Improved clinical workflow:
When a CDI program does what it is meant to do, it can foster a steady stream of dialogue between the CDIS and clinicians as part of the clinical thought process of patient care. It can break down operational and informational silos by integrating workflows and data, and reducing the overall burden on your CDIS.
Better patient outcomes:
Most CDI solutions are designed to help clinicians adopt workflow technologies and processes. This in turn paves way for more detailed information, more regularized communication. A good communication also ensures quick identification of patients at risk, improved discharge planning and effectively reduces hospital readmissions.
Savings:
Whichever way you look at it, an improved CDI function will definitely improve revenue outlook for your hospital. There is a clear improvement in your Case Mix Index leading to better utilization of your specialists. CDI also reduces your penalty rates, and non-compliance. You can even better your reimbursements.
Compliance:
It is a big word in healthcare. Lack of compliance raises a lot of deep-rooted concerns among the healthcare leaders and many are willing to move mountains to ensure this part of their set up is taken care of well. One of the simplest means to build better compliance around your hospital is to install a good CDI program.
It is common sense that lack of appropriate, real time and accurate documentation can lead to failed audits, penalties and a lot of cost towards remedial measures. CDI enables creation and reporting of information that is not only real time, but up to the mark, clear and detailed.
When you think about it that way, CDI can become your best friend. A good value CDI program has the capacity to engage your physicians to optimize revenue and develop a better case severity and patient risk picture. Going forward it is going to become only clearer that improving your clinical documentation can mean the difference between that of being a truly efficient hospital system that focuses on better patient care, and a set up that is not only not efficient but also cannot withstand and move forward in concord with the need of the hour.
For more information, please visit www.ezDI.com or call us at (866) 473-5655 toll free.
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Friday, August 21, 2015
Illucient Purchasing Alliance Selects ezDI for CAC and CDI Solutions to Maximize Reimbursement and Mitigate Compliance Risk
Illucient Purchasing Alliance, LLC (IPA), a joint venture between the Southern Atlantic Hospital Association (SAHA) and the Coastal Carolinas Health Alliance (CCHA), has decided to partner with ezDI, Inc., to afford IPA member hospitals the ability to take advantage of IPA negotiated discounts for deploying ezDI's ezCAC (computer-assisted coding) and ezCDI (clinical documentation improvement) software.
According to Derrick Billups, Executive Director at Illucient,
“Illucient Purchasing Alliance was created with the goal of enabling members to pursue cost reduction opportunities while supporting quality. Our partnership with ezDI can help Illucient member hospitals achieve these objectives and goals.”
ezDI provides best in class computer-assisted coding (CAC) using Natural Language Processing (NLP) technology that incorporates linguistics and a deep knowledge base for both coding and CDI. The solution is a single, enterprise platform that sits atop the various systems within a hospital allowing their seamless integration into the coding/CDI workflow to deliver real-time management controls. Specific features include user configurable coder/CDI work lists populated with required documentation elements to allow review, physician query automation based on clinical indicators within the health record, DRG analysis tools, compliance/audit functionality incorporating industry regulations and many other features.
According to IPA member, Wayne Memorial Hospital's Director of HIM, Ms. Phyllis Dreading,
“When evaluating CAC applications, we found ezCAC to be super easy to use with a user interface that is configured exactly how the system's users would want it done. It is very obvious that ezDI spent a great deal of time listening to HIM, coding and CDI professionals in gathering information on what revenue cycle professionals need in a CAC/CDI application, it's exactly what we have been asking for in the industry."
ezDI’s healthcare informatics products leverage technologies such as Natural Language Processing (NLP) analytics, Semantic Web, ICD-10 data mining, machine learning, ontology and high-performance computing into a highly advanced, singular workflow that can identify patients at risk, patterns in diseases and treatment outcomes without users having to spend hours pre-processing and preparing data. The ezDI solution combines these technologies to interpret clinical sentence structure in a very granular fashion. The software takes medical ontology using semantic web to identify and maintain the millions of medical relationships and population health concepts contained within ezDI.
“We’re thrilled with our selection by Illucient and the ability to partner with Illucient members like Wayne Memorial,” said Terry Ciesla, Executive Vice President for ezDI. “Achieving coding specificity with a verifiable audit process for accurate reimbursement is completely manageable with our ICD-10-ready CAC and CDI solutions. We’re pushing the boundaries of healthcare computerization with an easy-to-use and affordable CAC/CDI enterprise solution. We’re proud to provide a suite of products that focus on predictive analytics, population health initiatives and disease prevention.”
ezCAC is based upon an award-winning Medical Language Understanding (MLU) engine - ezNLP - and a patent-pending ICD-10 solution. It delivers automation and optimization for assigning healthcare codes. ezCDI leverages ezNLP and other proprietary solutions to build configurable work lists that prioritize cases with the highest probability for documentation improvement. ezCDI transforms a hospital’s CDI program into an automated, real-time, collaborative and highly communicative CDI model.
About Illucient, LLC
Illucient Purchasing Alliance, LLC is a joint venture between Coastal Carolinas Health Alliance (CCHA) and the Southern Atlantic Healthcare Alliance (SAHA). Illucient is made up of 23 healthcare systems, 43 hospitals and approximately 9,300 beds in North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia. Illucient’s mission is to provide a diverse portfolio of cost-saving opportunities through collaborative efforts and member engagement.
ezDI provides a variety of solutions such as Computer-Assisted Coding, Clinical Documentation Improvement, Compliance Auditing, predictive and prescriptive analytics, population health, disease management, quality and performance measures, and clinical registries. ezDI is an established medical transcription service organization with a reputation of providing affordable, high-quality transcription within tight turnaround times.
For more information, please visit www.ezDI.us
Tuesday, August 4, 2015
Thursday, July 16, 2015
ezDI and Texas Health Association (THA) Partner to Help Hospitals Improve Clinical Document Quality, Streamline Workflows & Reduce Cost
ezDI, Inc. a venture of Mediscribes, Inc., leader in medical transcription and Health Information Management solutions, has been chosen by the Texas Health Association (THA) as their endorsed vendor for medical transcription and computer-assisted coding (CAC).
ezDI, Inc. a venture of Mediscribes, Inc., leader in medical transcription and Health Information Management solutions, has been chosen by the Texas Health Association (THA) as their endorsed vendor for medical transcription and computer-assisted coding (CAC).
Speaking to the Texas Hospital Association Board of Directors in June, John Checkley, Texas Hospital Association Senior Vice President, Member Relations, said
“We are pleased to have ezDI as part of the Texas Hospital Association-endorsed company portfolio. THA recognizes ezDI as a value-driven solution that will help Texas hospitals better serve Texas patients.”
"We are very excited and quite proud to be endorsed by THA, the most respected hospital advocate in the nation. Our transcription service has grown exponentially since 2004 as a result of our intense focus on clinical document quality and customer service exuberance, but our success is attributed to the unwavering support of our customers. It is our customers that have ensured our growth and we owe each a debt of gratitude," said Craig Cordt, Regional Vice President and ezDI's (Mediscribes) Account Executive for THA. "When you combine our high quality transcription with our award winning Natural Language Processing (NLP) technology, the results are head and shoulders above the competition. We have taken Natural Language Processing (NLP) and added several new key technologies that abstract and make sense of clinical sentence structure in a much more granular fashion. We are pushing the boundaries of healthcare computerization with an easy-to-use and affordable CAC/CDI system and we will be delivering a suite of products that focus on predictive analytics, population health initiatives and disease prevention," concluded Mr. Cordt.
ezCAC is built on an award-winning Medical Language Understanding (MLU) engine - ezNLP - and a patent-pending ICD-10 solution, and delivers automation and optimization for assigning healthcare codes. ezCDI leverages ezNLP and other proprietary solutions to build configurable work lists that prioritize cases with the highest probability for documentation improvement. ezCDI transforms hospital’s CDI program into an automated, real-time, collaborative and highly communicative CDI model.
About Texas Hospital Association
The Texas Hospital Association was launched in 1930 by a handful of hospital administrators who recognized the value of working together to provide superior health care. Since then, the health care industry has changed dramatically – and so has THA. Today, THA is one of the largest, most respected health care associations in the country, and the only association that represents the entire Texas hospital industry. The Texas Hospital Association serves as the political and educational advocate for more than 430 hospitals and health systems statewide. From the board room to the C-suite, savvy Texas hospital leaders know that THA is the place to make their voices heard on the issues most important to their operations.
About ezDI, Inc.
ezDI provides a variety of solutions and services such as Medical Transcription, Computer-Assisted Coding, Clinical Documentation Improvement, Compliance Auditing, predictive and prescriptive analytics, population health, disease management, quality and performance measures, clinical registries, and much more. ezDI is firmly established as a medical transcription service organization with a reputation of providing affordable, high-quality transcription with austere turnaround times.
For more information, please visit http://www.ezdi.us/
Media Contacts:
ezDI Inc.
Terry Ciesla, EVP
866.473.5655
marketing@ezDI.us
12806 Townepark Way,
Wednesday, June 17, 2015
Richmond University Medical Center Streamlines Coding / Clinical Documentation with ezDI's Cloud-based Solution
Richmond University Medical Center (RUMC) will implement an integrated suite of revenue cycle software from ezDI, Inc., a venture of Mediscribes, Inc.
In order to reduce documentation delays and provide real-time revenue monitoring, Richmond University Medical Center (RUMC) will implement an integrated suite of revenue cycle software from ezDI, Inc., a venture of Mediscribes, Inc. Delivered through a cloud-based platform, the ezDI software enables RUMC physicians to collaborate from anywhere at anytime with others in healthcare information management, coders and clinical documentation improvement (CDI) staff. ezDI’s all-in-one workflow solution features computer-assisted coding for coders (ezCAC) and the clinical documentation improvement specialists (CDS). ezDI also delivers a compliance auditing module, analytics tools and dashboards as a part of the total solution.
“When compared with other CAC applications, we found ezCAC extremely easy to use with a user interface configured exactly how our system's users would want," said Robert Ren, Vice President for Revenue Cycle and Managed Care, RUMC. "It’s obvious that ezDI spent a great deal of time listening to HIM, coding and CDI professionals to find out what revenue cycle professionals need in a CAC/CDI application. It’s precisely what we’ve been asking for. We were blown away by ezCAC's advanced technology and the flexibility within the platform. It gives our team incredibly fast and accurate reimbursement information and increases oversight of the coding process.”
ezDI’s healthcare informatics products leverage technologies such as Natural Language Processing, Semantic Web, and high-performance computing to identify patients at risk, patterns in diseases and treatment outcomes without having to spend hours pre-processing and preparing that data.
"Our enterprise solution is the only one of its kind in the market today. We have taken Natural Language Processing (NLP) and added several new key technologies that abstract and make sense of clinical sentence structure in a much more granular fashion. To accomplish this, we focused heavily on medical ontology using semantic web to identify and now constantly maintain the millions of medical relationships and population health concepts contained within ezDI. We built ezDI's technical infrastructure using tomorrow's technologies today and our award-winning results place ezNLP as the #1 Medical Language Understanding (MLU) engine and platform in the industry. We are pushing the boundaries of healthcare computerization with an easy-to-use and affordable CAC/CDI system and we will be delivering a suite of products that focus on predictive analytics, population health initiatives and disease prevention," said Terry Ciesla, Executive Vice President for ezDI.
ezCAC is built on an award-winning Medical Language Understanding (MLU) engine - ezNLP - and a patent-pending ICD-10 solution, and delivers automation and optimization for assigning healthcare codes. ezCDI leverages ezNLP and other proprietary solutions to build configurable work lists that prioritize cases with the highest probability for documentation improvement. ezCDI transforms hospital’s CDI program into an automated, real-time, collaborative and highly communicative CDI model.
Richmond University Medical Center (RUMC) is an affiliate of The Mount Sinai Hospital and Mount Sinai School of Medicine on Manhattan. A 470+ bed healthcare facility, RUMC serves New York City borough residents as a leader in the areas of surgery, gastroenterology, pediatrics and pediatric gastroenterology, endocrinology, urology, oncology, orthopedics, surgery and maternal health. Its main campus is located on Staten Island, New York. RUMC also offers behavioral health services at its Bayley Seton campus.
About ezDI, Inc.
ezDI provides a variety of solutions such as Computer-Assisted Coding, Clinical Documentation Improvement, Compliance Auditing, predictive and prescriptive analytics, population health, disease management, quality and performance measures, clinical registries, and much more. ezDI is firmly established as a medical transcription service organization with a reputation of providing affordable, high-quality transcription with austere turnaround times.
For more information, please visit www.ezdi.us
Terry Ciesla, EVP
marketing@ezDI.us
www.ezDI.us
12806 Townepark Way,
Louisville, KY 40243
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Friday, June 5, 2015
Wayne Memorial Hospital Selects ezDI for Integrated Computer-assisted Coding (ezCAC) and Clinical Documentation Improvement (ezCDI) Solution
ezDI, Inc., a venture of Mediscribes, Inc., today announced that it will provide Wayne Memorial Hospital with a fully integrated suite of revenue cycle software, including computer-assisted coding (CAC), clinical documentation improvement (CDI) and a compliance module.
ezDI will deliver the solution through a flexible, cloud-based platform that will enable Wayne Memorial physicians to collaborate with Health Information Management, coders and CDI staff; provide high-quality coding and clinical documentation anywhere, anytime; help to reduce documentation delays; improve productivity; streamline workflows and institute a myriad of dashboards for real-time monitoring of the revenue cycle process.
Wayne Memorial Hospital is located in Goldsboro, North Carolina. The hospital was founded in 1896 and is the county’s third-largest employer with over 1,800 employees. The hospital is licensed for 316 beds and is staffed by over 200 physicians. It is a not-for-profit sole community provider.
“When evaluating CAC applications, we found ezCAC to be super easy to use with a user interface that is configured exactly how the system's users would want it," said Phyllis Dreading, RHIT, CMCO, Director of Health Information Management. "It is very obvious that ezDI spent a great deal of time listening to HIM coding and CDI personnel and gathering information as to what revenue cycle professionals need in a CAC/CDI application. This is what we have been asking for in the industry. We are looking forward to implementing ezCAC's advanced technology and assessing it’s flexibility and capability in helping us to meet our current needs for quick turnaround to accurate reimbursement information and increased oversight of the coding process.”
ezDI is providing Wayne Memorial with healthcare informatics products that leverage cutting-edge technologies such as Natural Language Processing, Semantic Web, and High-performance computing to identify patients at risk, patterns in diseases and treatment outcomes without having to spend hours preprocessing and preparing that data.
The all-in-one workflow solution features computer-assisted-coding (ezCAC), clinical documentation improvement module (ezCDI), a compliance auditing module, analytics tools and dashboards.
ezCAC is built on an award-winning Medical Language Understanding (MLU) engine - ezNLP - and a patent-pending ICD-10 solution, delivering true automation and optimization for accurately assigning healthcare codes. ezCAC simplifies medical coding, increases coder productivity, reduces DNFB and denials and improves revenue cycle management and controls. ezCDI leverages ezNLP and other proprietary solutions to build configurable work lists that prioritize cases with the highest probability for documentation improvement. ezCDI transforms a hospital’s CDI program into an automated, real-time, collaborative and highly communicative CDI model.
"At ezDI, we are pushing the boundaries of the computerization of the coding and CDI work flow by developing state-of the-art solutions that leverage Natural Language Processing (NLP), Semantic Web, Machine Learning and Linguistics," said Neil Shah, Vice President of Product Engineering at ezDI. "We are motivated by the belief that providers and clinical staff must have real-time access to organized clinical data and that access will improve the experience of each patient and maximize reimbursement opportunity."
About ezDI, Inc.
ezDI provides a variety of solutions such as Computer-Assisted Coding, Clinical Documentation Improvement, Compliance Auditing, predictive and prescriptive analytics, population health, disease management, quality and performance measures, clinical registries, and much more. ezDI is firmly established as a medical transcription service organization with a reputation of providing affordable, high-quality transcription with austere turnaround times.
For more information, please visit www.ezDI.us
Media Contacts:
ezDI Inc.
Terry Ciesla, EVP
866.473.5655
marketing(at)ezDI(dot)us
http://www.ezdi.us
12806 Townepark Way,
Louisville, KY 40243
ezDI will deliver the solution through a flexible, cloud-based platform that will enable Wayne Memorial physicians to collaborate with Health Information Management, coders and CDI staff; provide high-quality coding and clinical documentation anywhere, anytime; help to reduce documentation delays; improve productivity; streamline workflows and institute a myriad of dashboards for real-time monitoring of the revenue cycle process.
Wayne Memorial Hospital is located in Goldsboro, North Carolina. The hospital was founded in 1896 and is the county’s third-largest employer with over 1,800 employees. The hospital is licensed for 316 beds and is staffed by over 200 physicians. It is a not-for-profit sole community provider.
“When evaluating CAC applications, we found ezCAC to be super easy to use with a user interface that is configured exactly how the system's users would want it," said Phyllis Dreading, RHIT, CMCO, Director of Health Information Management. "It is very obvious that ezDI spent a great deal of time listening to HIM coding and CDI personnel and gathering information as to what revenue cycle professionals need in a CAC/CDI application. This is what we have been asking for in the industry. We are looking forward to implementing ezCAC's advanced technology and assessing it’s flexibility and capability in helping us to meet our current needs for quick turnaround to accurate reimbursement information and increased oversight of the coding process.”
ezDI is providing Wayne Memorial with healthcare informatics products that leverage cutting-edge technologies such as Natural Language Processing, Semantic Web, and High-performance computing to identify patients at risk, patterns in diseases and treatment outcomes without having to spend hours preprocessing and preparing that data.
The all-in-one workflow solution features computer-assisted-coding (ezCAC), clinical documentation improvement module (ezCDI), a compliance auditing module, analytics tools and dashboards.
ezCAC is built on an award-winning Medical Language Understanding (MLU) engine - ezNLP - and a patent-pending ICD-10 solution, delivering true automation and optimization for accurately assigning healthcare codes. ezCAC simplifies medical coding, increases coder productivity, reduces DNFB and denials and improves revenue cycle management and controls. ezCDI leverages ezNLP and other proprietary solutions to build configurable work lists that prioritize cases with the highest probability for documentation improvement. ezCDI transforms a hospital’s CDI program into an automated, real-time, collaborative and highly communicative CDI model.
"At ezDI, we are pushing the boundaries of the computerization of the coding and CDI work flow by developing state-of the-art solutions that leverage Natural Language Processing (NLP), Semantic Web, Machine Learning and Linguistics," said Neil Shah, Vice President of Product Engineering at ezDI. "We are motivated by the belief that providers and clinical staff must have real-time access to organized clinical data and that access will improve the experience of each patient and maximize reimbursement opportunity."
About ezDI, Inc.
ezDI provides a variety of solutions such as Computer-Assisted Coding, Clinical Documentation Improvement, Compliance Auditing, predictive and prescriptive analytics, population health, disease management, quality and performance measures, clinical registries, and much more. ezDI is firmly established as a medical transcription service organization with a reputation of providing affordable, high-quality transcription with austere turnaround times.
For more information, please visit www.ezDI.us
Media Contacts:
ezDI Inc.
Terry Ciesla, EVP
866.473.5655
marketing(at)ezDI(dot)us
http://www.ezdi.us
12806 Townepark Way,
Louisville, KY 40243
