The Digital Clinical Assistant is your solution to the prior authorization process. The Digital Clinical Assistant leverages innovative AI technology and a digital workforce to automate the burdensome process within Athenahealth EHR- eliminating the need to learn new tech or add to existing workflows. As a result, the DCA can improve the time to approval by up to 50%, increasing the number of approvals you can process daily. In addition, the DCA can reduce the cost of prior authorization by up to 60% and alleviate the administrative burden on your staff.

Digital Blue is a healthcare consulting and solutions company focused on improving lives through optimized business performance. Our services and solutions empower leaders across the healthcare ecosystem to eliminate inefficiencies, increase productivity and improve patient satisfaction. Client benefits include; increased revenue, reduced operational cost and administrative burden, and improved quality of care. 

Direct is the leading EHR-integrated cost transparency solution. The solution brings real-time, pharmacy benefit cost information, coverage restrictions, and alternatives into native EHR workflows. Giving providers cost information at the point-of-care enables data-driven and evidence-based decisions that help patients get the care they need at prices they can afford.

Features and Benefits:

 - Access to lower-cost alternatives increases care adherence and patient health and satisfaction

 - Select medications that do not require prior authorization

 - Reduced pharmacy/PBM/payer call-backs, prior authorization denials, and other uncompensated provider hassles

 - Uses native order workflows, is easy to implement

- Surfaces pharmacy alternatives to drive continuity of care and patient satisfaction

- Integrates patient affordability program offerings into RTPB results, showing best-cost options when insurance coverage isn't found or doesn't apply. 

Arrive Health is a healthcare technology company dedicated to putting the needs of patients and providers first. We improve access to the most affordable, quality care by delivering accurate, patient-specific cost and coverage data to providers, care teams, and patients. Collaborating with premier health systems, pharmacy benefit managers, payers, and healthcare IT vendors, Arrive Health is clearing the way for better health by reducing friction in care workflows and enabling meaningful conversations about access to care. To learn more, please visit ArriveHealth.com.

Prior Auth Process As-Is

Prescriber opens the EMR and prescribes the prescription.

The pharmacy will notify the prescriber that a prior auth is needed

Prescriber will submit an electronic request for prior authorization through ePA or insurance portals

Prescribers and their staff input patient demographic information and history and answer clinical questions as they come in. 

The staff is constantly checking for status updates

Duplicate requests come in, typically at night and over the weekend. If the PA request isn't completed quickly enough, these must be filtered out manually.

Backlogged workbaskets and data-entry errors cause care gaps and delays in treatment.

Increased administrative burden is the number one cause in provider burnout and a significant cause for loss in revenue

DCA Optimized Prior Auth Process

The Clinician Opens the EMR and prescribes the medication

DCA monitors the EMR and other systems for PA work and kicks off the automated process

DCA auto-triages PAs and removes ALL duplicate requests as they come in

DCA auto-fills forms via APIs and submits the requests for medications it has been configured for based on your practices' volumes

DCA creates a work queue for any encountered exceptions

nurses work only the PA requests or clinical questions that the DCA is not configured for, saving time for high-value work

Based on payer rules, the DCA posts status updates/tasks to EMR and auto-updates status

60% reduction in manual effort

50% improvement in time to approval

100% elimination of duplicate requests

See more patients, improve employee satisfaction/retention, and get home on time!

Our solution is seamlessly embedded into EHR workflows, allowing for direct connections to payer and PBM source-of-truth data. EHRs typically allow for one or many connections to Real-Time Prescription Benefit solutions, but rarely have their own prescription price transparency capabilities built-in. 

Arrive Health delivers the industry's most accurate, patient-specific cost and coverage information to the EHR. Many providers do not trust the pricing information displayed in their workflow because of its obsolete or incorrect nature (see whitepaper below). However, Arrive Health delivers data that providers can rely on, taking into consideration up-to-date copay and deductible information, benefit details, and preferred locations. We also display therapeutic alternatives that are covered under the patient's insurance, options that might not require prior authorization, and options at a health system's own internal pharmacy.