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Krames on FHIR
Krames on FHIR

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Product Description:

In early 2017, Epic introduced the Epic App Orchard, which opened up their platform to developers to create apps that use SMART and FHIR technology to integrate into Epic. This is an evolution to the traditional quarterly update integration that Epic began offering a number of years earlier.

In developing Krames On FHIR, Krames’ Product Team conducted many interviews with existing clients to see what were their “pain points” and looked for suggestions to improve upon or eliminate those pain points. The Krames On FHIR results have been truly impressive:

Benefits for Patients

· Provide the right content in the right format to the patient anywhere along their healthcare journey from Discovery to Recovery and beyond!

· Access easy to understand content on thousands of topics in English and Spanish, with content available in up to 15 additional languages and over 1,450 videos

· Gain knowledge and tools to effectively adhere to treatment plans, take medications properly, and self-manage conditions outside the health system to reduce readmissions

· Receive suggested patient education content, customized by their physician, in their preferred format - print, digital or video – accessible through their MyChart Patient Portal, Bedside or Mobile app with the ability to revisit or share the education with loved ones and care givers

· Pre/post procedure automated education via SMS to improve outcomes and ensure medication adherence.

Benefits for Clinical Teams

· Access to regularly updated patient education in clear, plain language developed using Krames evidence-based methodologies in multiple modalities

· Suggest the most relevant encounter education (including our vast video collection) to reduce clinical efforts and clicks.

· Deliver Krames patient education to your patients through MyChart Portal, Bedside or Mobile app or even through your Care Plans teaching points

· View the dates of the education materials that the patient has previously received and see how the patient has interacted with the content

· Improve clinical workflows by reducing the number of clicks and making patient education easier to find via suggested content, personal favorites and organizational or departmental folders

· Providing multiple formats of education (print, video, digital, etc.) addressing SDOH issues and positively affecting HCAHPS

Benefits for IT Teams

· Eliminate quarterly uploads of patient education, reducing the technical resources needed for maintenance and support

· Piloted Epic’s Tesseract with Epic to reduce and simplify API integrations

· Adhere to the latest industry standard SMART on FHIR API standards

· Facilitate implementation using our pre-approved app

· Follow a detailed project plan and how-to guide for implementation, provided by EPIC

· Adhere to regulatory requirements, as the application allows clinicians to share information to the Patient Portal and write data back into the EHR

About Krames:

For 40-plus years, Krames solutions—which now include those of our WebMD and Medscape family—have been attracting, educating, and retaining patients. Partnering with a results-driven company like Krames is key for health care networks to provide a personalized patient experience that coordinates digital and physical touchpoints. Patients stay engaged with their care plan and clinicians, improving their satisfaction and loyalty and reducing readmissions—creating healthier outcomes for all.


Product Description:

Transforming the television system into a communication hub providing education, empowerment, education, efficiency, and digital enablement. Built on an open architecture that integrates with your EHR and other HIT, the IPS facilitate care collaboration amongst patients, families and providers improving outcomes and experience for patients and efficiency and job satisfaction for providers. Key features include:

  • Automated and On-Demand video education with learning verification and documentation back to the medical record
  • Patient Empowerment features including meal ordering, room lighting and temperature controls, service requests
  • Real Time Feedback surveys and service recovery shown to improve HCAHPS scores
  • Extensive entertainment included TV, feature length movies, books on tape, relaxation videos
  • Digital Whiteboards and digital door signs surface key information in real time to enhance care and communication
  • Video Connect Telepresence and Picture sharing

The pCare IPS is the 9-time winner of the Best in KLAS award in the IPS category

About pCare:

pCare’s cross continuum, patient engagement solutions help healthcare providers educate and collaborate with patients. The pCare open platform integrates with existing EHR/EMR systems, patient portals, and digital health applications to connect patients, families and care partners. Recognized by KLAS as the quality leader in the interactive patient systems category, pCare is the partner leading healthcare organizations trust to improve care quality, patient outcomes, and financial performance.

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The Krames clinical content team does continuous review of standards in clinical literature, guidelines, and best practices to keep our content current. As we look to develop content and maintain our existing content library, we ensure clinical accuracy by our team working in conjunction with our in-house research director and together we continually monitor over 180 guideline associations; which include organizations like AWHONN, ACOG, American Academy of Pediatrics, CDC, NIH, American Diabetes Association, American Academy of Emergency Medicine, just to name a few. Based on review we update content to reflect current standards – at three levels: 1. The first level is “Proactive”: Where all content is reviewed on a 24-month cycle 2.The second level is “Responsive”: All relevant content is reviewed when we’ve identified a change in standards 3.The third and final level is “Emerging”/new research: This is the real-time creation of new content describing emerging clinical issues (e.g. COVID-19, Vaping, ZIKA) Our process for content review includes: - Health content, including interactive or self-management tools and multimedia content, has two external medical reviews. - Health content enters its “first” medical review two (2) months prior to the expiration of the last review date and the medical review process - two medical reviews, one editorial review, QA, and translation - may take several months to complete. Dates of medical reviews are tracked and stored in the Krames UCR. Certain diseases and conditions that have ongoing medical research and frequent updates to treatment guidelines are medically reviewed more often, as an off-cycle review, to remain current with emerging standards of care. - Content is updated immediately, as an off-cycle update, when significant new medical knowledge or change(s) in medical guidelines occur, and when content errors (not spelling or grammar) are identified. - Two medical reviews are performed on health content. At least one of the medical reviewers is an expert or specialist in the area pertaining to the disease, condition, or topic under review. - Experts or specialists in the area pertaining to the disease, condition, or topic under review consist of physicians, advanced practice registered nurses (APRN), physician assistants (PA), and other clinicians with a specialty focus on the specific subject matter. - Our in-house clinical team finalizes the medical review process by validating each content review to ensure consistency and accuracy across our library.

Captures and tracks what information has been provided to the patient, what they did or did not interact with. Records dates of when education materials were received to help ensure they don't repeatedly get the same information. Indicates whether or not a patient viewed a healthsheet and/or how much of a video they watched. Everything writes back to the AVS.

We offer optionality in terms of delivery for our content to truly meet patients in their preferred modality, wherever they are in the patient journey! (Our healthsheets and collection of over 1,450 videos can be integrated in EPIC clinical references & MyChart, mobile, pre/post procedure SMS, TV channels, online, pre-printed booklets, interactive guidebooks, AI physicians assistant, etc..)

Krames takes an individualized approach as we engage patients in their healthcare journey. We deliver engaging Krames patient education in digital, video, or print formats, based on each patient's unique learning style. It applies the latest health literacy principles to help clarify diagnoses, support shared decision-making, and build a trusted physician-patient relationship. Our Digital Content is comprised of not just written content, but also image only, animations, and videos that assist healthcare professionals in educating their patients in the style that fits the patient. We use the Health Literacy Advisor software, which can calculate reading scores using a variety of scales and we record Gunning-Fog and Flesch-Kincaid reading ease in our database. Our digital, video, and print content contains diverse, culturally sensitive images that appeal to many different populations and demographics. We have an extensive video collection that ranges across the continuum of healthcare. Additionally, Krames has 1,500+ "Easier-to-Understand" healthsheets which are at a 4th grade reading level and below and over 100 "animation only" healthsheets that provide step-by-step instructions using only images at reading level (0).

Improves clinical workflows by reducing the number of clicks and making patient education easier to find via suggested content, personal favorites and organizational or departmental folders Care managers can easily access content, while marking their favorites and organizing it into favorites shared across the team so they can easily see what has been shared.

Krames On FHIR allows clinicians to deliver up-to-date patient education at the point of care. Using SMART on FHIR technologies, it integrates smoothly into Epic and directly into your workflow. Krames On FHIR provides relevant information based on the patient record including conditions, medications, and procedures- and then recommends the right education based on the patient's profile and current clinical encounter.

pCare delivers patient education from the leading content providers (Krames, Healthwise, WedMD, Health Nuts, Elsevier) whose content is kept up to date and reviewed.

With ingeterations in place, pCare tracks when content is accessed, completed, along with answere to learning verification questions - all of which can be ported back to an EHR via results message. Additionally, all de-identified transaction data is saved in our system for reporting and can be made available back to clients via data exports.

Patients can interact with the pCare system via a pillow speaker, tablet, or personal device paired to our system. On Screen Displays alert the patient to view education in preparation for discharge as well as present surveys patients complete in order to give staff a pulse check on an admission. Patients can further interact with the system by answering learning verification questions, placing service quests, ordering meds to beds, ordering meals, and managing room temperature and lighting controls.

pCare CareFlows are triggered by both EHR data and interactions with our system to guide the patient during an admission. Available CareFlows include Discharge Planning, Falls Prevention, Infection Control, and Pain Management.

Navigating the system is as easy as using a television remote and it can be done via a person device. The content presented is from validated patient education publishers whose content is not only scientifically accurate but created in accordance with health literacy design priciples. In addition to providing content in multiple languages, our VideoConnect telepresence solution include Language Connect which facilitates 1-click access to video translation services.

pCare intergrates with leading EHR systems which enables prescription and documentation of education transactions. CareFlows further automate the process by dosing information over the duration of an admission.

pCare integrates with leading EHRs including Epic, Oracle Health (Cerner), Meditech, and Altera (Allscripts)

Use Cases

Description:

Recognizing the need for immediate, reliable coronavirus education, we mobilized our resources to develop a coronavirus content package. We’ve follow CDC guidance while expediting clinical content reviews, translations, and coding as we’ve expanded offerings for Krames On FHIR and Krames On-Demand (12 HealthSheets, translated for 7 languages, and 10 videos for adult and pediatric audiences).

Pediatric use cases:

We have multiple Children's hospitals using Krames on FHIR- especially for our abilty to leverage our exclusive relationship with Kid's Health and their video collection!

Users:

Houston Methodist amongst 30+ others.  

Description:

Via the personalized patient portal accesssible on the in-room TV, patient have access to a wide variety of education that can be automatically prescribed via data from the EHR as well as accessed on demand. All education transactions are documented back into the EHR. Via integrations with a variety of HIT, patietns can place service requests, order meals, adjust environmental controls, completed satisfation surverys, and thank nursing staff for their care.  

Pediatric use cases:

Same functionality above with an age-appopriate interface.

Users:

Patients, families, and staff

EHR Integrations

Integrations:

Acute care EMR, Ambulatory EMR, Ancillary EMR, Patient portal, Pop health platform, Home health, Behavioral health, Community based organizations, Website / public online sources

EMR Integration & Relevant Hardware:

Not applicable

EMRs Supported:

Epic, Cerner, Meditech, Allscripts, Allscripts/Eclipsys, Evident, MEDHOST, Self-developed

Hardware Compatibility:

None provided

Integrations:

Acute care EMR, Ambulatory EMR, ERP system, Patient portal, ADT, Credentialing, Other

EMR Integration & Relevant Hardware:

Recommended, but not required

EMRs Supported:

Epic, Meditech, Cerner, Allscripts, Other

Hardware Compatibility:

Desktop, Mobile / Tablet (web optimized), Other, Mobile / Tablet (native app)

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Differentiators

Differentiators vs EHR Functionality:

Unparalled, proven FHIR app

Differentiators vs Competitors:

We offer optionality in terms of delivery for our content to truly meet patients in their preferred modality, wherever they are in the patient journey! (Our healthsheets and collection of over 1,450 videos can be integrated in EPIC clinical references & MyChart, mobile, pre/post procedure SMS, TV channels, online, pre-printed booklets, AI physicians assistant, etc.!)

1. **FHIR experience** - Krames On FHIR is a proven solution that addresses an organization’s patient education gaps. Krames has over 39 live clients and anothr 20 in different stages of implementation with thousands of clinicians who are using Krames On FHIR every day! No other patient education vendor can say that. Plus, we’ve developed repeatable best practices to prevent delays, reduce risks, and eliminate disruptions during implementation.


2. **Breadth and depth of expertise** - Krames brings to clients more than 40 years of experience focused on health care education, clinical workflow solutions, and positive patient outcomes - all rooted in the science of behavior change. We have internal experts experienced in health care regulations and risks who understand that evidence-based, clinically validated content - updated in real-time through FHIR technology - enables quality clinical education and speed to market for your organization.

3. **Direct to Patient automated education**- Our Direct To Patient automated education extends our Krames patient education outside of the four walls/portal and into the patients pocket! Pre/post procedure education, medication education and adherence, medications savings, and wellness to improve outcomes.


4. **Ease of use** - Upon conducting many hours of clinician focus groups, we created Krames On FHIR for seamless integration into the EHR workflow. It's a strategically developed application with a modern, initiative user interface that enhances the clinical workflow.

Differentiators vs EHR Functionality:

pCare has been providing innovative communication, entertainment, and education solutions leveraging television systems for healthcare organizations since the 1950's. This is our are area of expertise that is unmatched in the industry.

We understand how to create a great experience for the patient while complimenting care and improving efficiency of the staff by:

integrating into hospital systems

adopting hospitals workflows

offloading non-clinical tasks from nurses to patients wherever possible.

Backed by 7 decades of experience and expertise, the pCare team compliments and optimized internal resources by taking on the tasks we do best and allowing hospital clinical, IT, and facilities teams to focus on what they do best.

Differentiators vs Competitors:
  • Best in KLAS for Interactive Patient Care System Category for 9 yrs running. (2015 - 2024).
  • Full service provider. pCare can manage setting up the television infrastructure including the wiring and switches, we can supply, provision, and install the television and hardware, we configure the software and train the staff.
  • pCare uses HIPAA certified and Healthcare credentialed staff to install the systems - not 3rd party contractors. We install faster and at a lower cost than any competitor.
  • HITRUST i1 Certified
  • Open Architecture. The pCare Connect API is designed to integrate with client technology and workflows.
  • Trust - We have been wholly focused on serving healthcare clients for over 70 years - longer than anyone else in the industry. With a proven record for technological innovation and superior service, hospital's nationwide trust pCare to deliver.

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