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Digital Clinical Assistant (DCA)
Digital Clinical Assistant (DCA)

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Product Description:

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.

About Digital Blue:

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. 

Product Description:

HealthNautica’s eORders™, software is a comprehensive, easy-to-use, cloud solution for managing the entire perioperative process and surgical scheduling without changing your scheduling system. It begins with the physician’s office filling out an online surgery scheduling or procedure request.

Gone are the days of illegible, incomplete, inaccurate faxes sent back and forth between the physician’s office and the facility’s scheduling department. The cumbersome and error prone faxing process is replaced by an electronic form that is configured to each facility’s exact specifications and reacts to the user’s input thereby assisting the physician’s office in getting it right the first time.

All orders are legible, complete, screened for CMS Medical Necessity, incorporate SCIP, VTE, SSI and ACS NSQIP measures, verified for insurance eligibility, pre-certified and satisfy edits by CMS, commercial payers and the facility. Our solution ensures efficient surgery center scheduling and block time management while streamlining processes such as prior authorization.

About HealthNautica:

Healthcare Software Developer

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Product Capabilities

The DCA will gather all information from the open prior auth request, including reading the ePA portal key from faxes or digital documents attached to the prior auth request. The DCA uses APIs to retrieve data such as demographics, lab results, and medication history. The DCA executes business rules and submits the initial request in the provider's configured workflow. The DCA also updates internal notes with the ePA key, making navigation between ePA portal and the EMR easier

Prior authorization requirements knowledge base is continually and automatically maintained with minimal effort required outside of the clinical team outside of weekly check-ins to verify all clinical questions are being answered as they would (continuous quality improvement).

The digital worker entirely automates form completion via API access. Appropriate fields are populated by leveraging structured and unstructured data from the EHR.

DCA and its components are a secure, Microsoft Azure Cloud-based infrastructure.

Necessary documentation can be attached to satisy the prior authorization request via APIs

Prior authorization requests can be submitted on behalf of the health system through e-fax, payer portals, their party sites, etc.

Prior authorization request status is monitored in near real-time. It can be pushed back, along with other relevant information (e.g., tracking numbers, supporting text), into the appropriate work queues and fields within the EHR. Exceptions-Only processing is done by the clinician - ie: only clinical questions the the DCA is not configured for will be sent back to the clinical team.

Use Cases

Description:

The Challenge

  • Prior authorization is the most burdensome process for many providers
  • The number of procedures, drugs & DME requiring prior authorization continues to grow
  • Payers, providers, and CMS do not utilize common prior-authorization rules, standards, documentation, or processes –this causes up to 80% of initial prior authorization denials
  • Manual prior authorization processes are getting costlier due to additional administrative burdens.
  • Many delays in patient care are directly related to prior authorization delays and data entry errors, resulting in risk to the patient and questions from them and their families.

The Solution

  • Centralized prior authorization work-bench with optimized workflows, case tracking, and reporting
  • Automated retrieval of the most up-to-date formularies and prior auth guidance by payers
  • Automated gathering of disparate data and documents for consolidation and initial fulfillment of prior authorization requests
  • Real-time, intelligent notifications and tasking for prior authorization team to ensure efficient exception processing
  • Built-in assistance for prior authorization nurses through the centralized workbench
  • Exception-only involvement of prior authorization team, guiding to improve the initial prior authorization submittal process in the future.

The Benefits

  • Reduce prior authorization costs by up to 60%
  • Reduce the decision time on prior authorizations by up to 50%
  • Provide hundreds of hours per year back to nurses to provide quality care, as opposed to prior authorization administrative tasks
  • Increase the rate of first-pass approval of prior authorizations by up to 50%
  • Decrease patient’s likelihood of abandoning care due to frustration or inconvenience
  • Retain the familiarity of your EMR for physicians while streamlining the process for nurses
  • The DCA requires no changes to your existing EMR system
Pediatric use cases:

No modifications to the workflow are necessary for pediatrics

Users:

FQHCs, Primary Care, Mult-Specialty Physician Groups, Hospital Clinics, Physician Groups, Medical Group Practices, Independent Medical Practices, Telehealth providers, Ambulatory Surgery Centers, Urgent Care Centers, Hospitals, Pediatricians, Dermatologists, Endocrinologists, Gastroenterologists, Cardiologists, OBGYN, Community Health Centers, Rural Hospitals, Non-Profit Hospitals, Specialty Group Practices.

Description:
  • Surgery/Procedure/Diagnostic Request Screening and Submission
  • Patient Engagement
  • Coordination of Care
  • Revenue Cycle Management

Used by:

  • Hospitals
  • Healthcare Systems
  • Ambulatory Surgery Centers

Pediatric use cases:

Pediatric Facilities

Users:
  • Physicians/Providers
  • Hospitals
  • ASCs

EHR Integrations

Integrations:

Ambulatory EMR, Patient portal

EMR Integration & Relevant Hardware:

Use case dependent

EMRs Supported:

athena

Hardware Compatibility:

Not applicable

Integrations:

Acute care EMR, Ambulatory EMR, ADT

EMR Integration & Relevant Hardware:

Recommended, but not required

EMRs Supported:

Epic, Cerner, Allscripts, NextGen, Allscripts/Eclipsys, Meditech, athena, Athenahealth, eClinicalWorks

Hardware Compatibility:

Desktop, Mobile / Tablet (web optimized)

Client Types

None provided

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Differentiators

Differentiators vs EHR Functionality:

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!

Differentiators vs Competitors:

None provided

Differentiators vs EHR Functionality:

Provides agnostic interoperability that integrates a solution outside the competancy of the EHR and facilitates a companion to the EHR

Differentiators vs Competitors:

Pricing and customer support are key

Health Equity

We offer patient engagement options in multiple languages through text and email. We also offer provider engagement options through text and email.

This privacy notice discloses the privacy practices for Nebo II Inc. d/b/a HealthNautica, our website https://healthnautica.com and our mobile app eORdersNOW. HealthNautica provides a software platform to facilitate and coordinate care and reimbursement. HealthNautica’s software streamlines the workflow, improves care, operational efficiencies and reduces denials and payment reductions. Our software replaces cumbersome and error-prone phone and fax processes ensuring that patients are managed safely, efficiently and with improved outcomes. HealthNautica receives personal health information (PHI) through health care providers (and their office staff) who are requesting health care services on behalf of their patients. It also collects PHI through hospitals and surgical centers that provide these services. PHI is also be submitted by the patients who are the recipient of the health care services. Patient consent for the collection, use and disclosure of PHI is managed by the health information custodians (e.g. physicians, hospitals, surgical centers). HealthNautica supports the disclosure of PHI only under the following circumstances: Between health information custodians who are arranging health care services to patients. Where permitted and/or required by law, report information to government agencies, payers and other entities responsible for patient care and reimbursement. HealthNautica is committed to the protection of PHI at all times. HealthNautica employs administrative, physical and technical safeguards to protect PHI from theft, loss, unauthorized use, modification, disclosure and destruction. This includes: All PHI is hosted in secure, access controlled data centers All information is encrypted at rest and in transit HealthNautica software authenticates and limits access only to authorized users All user’s access to PHI is logged and audited HealthNautica adheres to a privacy policy to ensure PHI is protected. This includes: All staff are aware of the purposes for which PHI is collected and maintained and trained on their legal obligations to protect PHI Agreements with participating health care providers that outline privacy and security requirements Monitor security to detect for any breaches PHI is not used or disclosed for purposes other than those for which it is intended. HealthNautica does NOT sell, rent, share or provide PHI or even any de-identified information in the aggregate to any third party. https://healthnautica.com/about-us/privacy/

User support is provided by subject-matter experts during extended business hours (Monday-Saturday). These same experts are on call after hours. We provide unlimited onsite and remote training sessions.

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