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Tele-Critical Care
Tele-Critical Care

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Product Description:

Critical care units often face significant bottlenecks, with patients experiencing long waits for limited ICU beds. Studies indicate that nearly half of the patients admitted to ICUs could be adequately managed in less intensive settings. These delays not only increase morbidity and mortality rates but also escalate healthcare costs. Equum Medical’s Tele-Critical Care Services provide an innovative solution to these challenges by offering comprehensive, remote critical care coverage.

Our services include both episodic and round-the-clock ICU coverage through telehealth consultations and management. By leveraging advanced telehealth technology, we help standardize workflows and protocols, guiding house staff and hospitalists through critical procedures. This approach ensures consistency in care delivery, improving patient outcomes and operational efficiency.

Equum Medical’s Tele-Critical Care Services extend beyond the ICU, enhancing critical care support in the emergency department (ED) as well. This ensures that high-acuity patients receive the appropriate level of care from the moment they arrive, significantly reducing adverse events and shortening lengths of stay. By integrating our services, hospitals can optimize patient flow, minimize ICU overcrowding, and enhance overall patient safety and satisfaction.

Our tele-critical care model allows healthcare providers to manage high-acuity patients more effectively, ensuring timely interventions and reducing the strain on ICU resources. By providing expert critical care support remotely, Equum Medical helps hospitals deliver high-quality care to patients, regardless of their location. This innovative approach not only addresses current critical care challenges but also sets the stage for a more resilient and efficient healthcare system.

About Equum Medical:

Equum Medical is a leader in the telehealth industry, dedicated to transforming healthcare delivery with innovative, technology-enabled solutions. Founded by experienced physicians and healthcare professionals, Equum Medical is a trusted partner for hospitals and healthcare systems aiming to enhance patient care, improve operational efficiency, and address workforce challenges. Our mission is to provide high-quality, accessible healthcare services, particularly in rural and underserved communities, through a comprehensive suite of telehealth solutions.

Equum Medical offers a wide range of telehealth services designed to meet the diverse needs of healthcare providers and patients. Our services include, Virtual Nursing, Tele-ICU, Virtual Sitter, Telemetry, Multi-Specialty Telehealth and High-Acuity Care.

Our Unique Proposition centers on our physician-founded and operated approach, ensuring services are designed with a deep understanding of clinical workflows and patient care needs. With over 200 years of combined telehealth experience among our leadership team, we offer unparalleled expertise to our clients.

Equum Medical is committed to addressing healthcare workforce shortages and enhancing care delivery through strategic telehealth solutions, making high-quality healthcare accessible to all.

Product Description:

Improve the patient financial experience and simplify administrative and clinical complexities with the Inovalon Provider Cloud – all while saying goodbye to siloed workflows.

Our SaaS solutions help you strengthen financial and clinical outcomes across the patient journey, from creating front- and back-end revenue cycle processes for better reimbursement to ensuring appropriate staffing levels for optimal care. This is all managed in one comprehensive portal to take your organization to new heights improving revenue, staff equity, and care quality.

Enhance your organization’s efficiency, productivity, and overall effectiveness. Discover what the Provider Cloud can do.

Gain End-to-End Revenue Cycle Visibility

Understand where your revenue processes are missing the mark and adjust accordingly with detailed performance data. Monitor financial performance trends, identify and correct operational risks, and streamline commercial and government claims management processes.

Achieve Staff Equity

Strengthen engagement and retention by setting staff up for success with adequate staffing across departments, shifts, and credential requirements.

One Enterprise-Wide Solution

Bring your organization together in one comprehensive portal to better align initiatives, identify areas of improvement, and boost your bottom line.

About Inovalon:

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Clients

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Use Cases

Description:

Critical care units often face significant challenges in managing patient flow and ensuring timely access to specialized care. Limited ICU bed availability and a shortage of intensivists contribute to higher morbidity, mortality, and healthcare costs. Equum Medical's Tele-Critical Care services, including eICU and Tele-ICU, provide innovative solutions to these challenges by leveraging telehealth technology to extend critical care expertise to patients regardless of their physical location.

eICU and Tele-ICU Services:

Equum Medical's eICU and Tele-ICU services offer continuous remote monitoring and management of ICU patients by board-certified intensivists and critical care nurses. These services enable real-time patient monitoring, expert consultations, and collaborative care, enhancing the capacity of ICU units and improving patient outcomes.

Use Case 1: Managing ICU Bed Shortages

A community hospital with a limited number of ICU beds often struggles to accommodate high-acuity patients, leading to long wait times and increased patient transfers. By implementing Equum Medical's Tele-ICU services, the hospital can provide remote intensivist coverage for patients awaiting ICU beds. This service ensures that patients receive critical care interventions promptly, reducing the risk of adverse events and optimizing the use of available resources. Remote intensivists can guide on-site staff through complex procedures, manage patient care plans, and make timely decisions to improve patient outcomes.

Use Case 2: Enhancing Care in Rural Hospitals

A rural hospital with no full-time intensivist faces challenges in providing high-quality critical care. Equum Medical's eICU services enable the hospital to offer expert critical care support remotely. Intensivists monitor patients' vital signs, review medical records, and collaborate with the on-site team to manage critical cases effectively. This service enhances the hospital's ability to provide comprehensive care, reducing the need for patient transfers to larger facilities and ensuring that patients receive timely, specialized care close to home.

Use Case 3: Supporting Surge Capacity During Pandemics

During the COVID-19 pandemic, hospitals experienced unprecedented surges in critically ill patients, overwhelming ICU capacities. Equum Medical's Tele-ICU services provided essential support by extending the reach of intensivists to multiple hospitals simultaneously. This service allowed hospitals to manage higher patient volumes, ensuring that all patients received appropriate critical care without compromising quality. Tele-ICU services facilitated efficient resource allocation, reducing clinician burnout and improving overall patient outcomes during the crisis.

Use Case 4: Integrating Multidisciplinary Care Teams

A tertiary care hospital seeks to enhance its ICU services by integrating a multidisciplinary approach to patient care. Equum Medical's eICU platform enables seamless collaboration between remote intensivists, on-site specialists, and nursing staff. This integrated approach ensures that patients benefit from a comprehensive care plan that addresses all aspects of their condition. The eICU platform supports real-time data sharing and communication, facilitating informed decision-making and improving patient care coordination.

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Pediatric use cases:

None provided

Users:

Physician

Intensivisit

Critical Care

Telehealth

Hospitals

Health Systems

Description:

Patient Claims & Billing

All-Payer Revenue Cycle Management

Keep revenue flowing with a powerful tool that helps staff focus on real-time eligibility checks, claims status tracking and simple payment posting for both government and commercial claims.

Medicare Revenue Cycle Management

Automate your Medicare billing management with specialized software that corrects complex and multi-step claims, flags receivables at risk and allows you to perform easy eligibility look-ups.

Patient Payment

Patient Payment Management is a comprehensive patient payment software that enables you to capture more revenue and improve patient satisfaction.

Revenue Cycle Management Analytics

Improve first-pass yield on all claims. Inovalon All-Payer RCM Intelligence delivers analytic dashboards to identify performance trends, enabling decision makers to easily discover, predict, visualize, model, and manage data all in one application.

All-Payer Claims Management

Our easy-to-use electronic claims management application allows users to submit, edit and receive claims for Medicare, Medicaid and thousands of commercial insurance companies – all in one place.

Patient Statements

Inovalon Patient Statement Management software provides your patients easy-to-read breakdowns of outstanding balances, with statements white labeled to your organization.

Medicare ADR Submission

Simplify your process of secure submission, tracking, and reporting for Medicare claim review programs. This specialized software features connectivity to multiple Medicare esMD programs including ADR, RAC Audits, first- and second-level appeals, PERM, CERT, and more.

Medicare Claims Management

Medicare File Submission is a secure claims submission and remittance advice solution, giving you fast, automated processing and payment of Medicare claims.

Patient Access

Patient Registration

Reduce downstream denials and reimbursement delays through accurate patient data collection at intake. Empower staff to validate patient identity, verify eligibility, and identify all available insurance coverage, all within a few steps powered by a single patient registration software application.

Healthcare Insurance Coverage Discovery

Insurance Discovery reduces uncompensated care and underpayments by identifying active billable coverage previously unknown to the provider. Using sophisticated search capabilities, this solution identifies if patients have multiple active payers to help boost reimbursement opportunities.

All-Payer Health Insurance Eligibility Verification

Eligibility Workflow streamlines patient access and billing workflows by enabling staff to assign and prioritize patients, payers, and tasks during eligibility verification. This technology goes beyond basic eligibility needs, providing a dashboard to confirm, manage, and store every inquiry.

Healthcare Propensity to Pay

Realize the power of patient identity verification combined with custom propensity to pay scoring in one easy-to-use, cloud-based healthcare application. Lower the risk of uncompensated care and collect more revenue with more patient data readily available to make better-informed billing decisions.

Medicare Eligibility Verification

Get fast, detailed eligibility status and medical benefit information, without the hassle of juggling multiple login IDs and passwords. Eligibility Verification Medicare software enables you to submit inquiries 24/7 and receive real-time responses.

Medicare DDE/FISS Connectivity

Direct Data Exchange Verification delivers secure, online connections for Part A and Part B providers. If you need connectivity to DDE through the Professional Provider Telecommunication Network (PPTN), Regional Home Health and Hospice Intermediary (RHHI), or Claim Status Inquiry (CSI), we have you covered.

Patient Engagement

Telehealth

Inovalon’s Virtual Care software is user-friendly, reliable, and built by a team of healthcare experts with the full patient journey in mind. The solution easily integrates with eligibility, claims, and patient payment tools powered by the Inovalon ONE Platform, so you can bring key care delivery functions into one place.

Pediatric use cases:

None provided

Users:
  • Chocta Nation Health Care Center (OK)
  • Guardian Angels Senior Services
  • Marshall Medical Center (CA) 
  • Phelps Memorial Health Center
  • Quality Care ER (TX) 

EHR Integrations

Integrations:

Acute care EMR

EMR Integration & Relevant Hardware:

Not applicable

EMRs Supported:

Epic, Cerner, Meditech, Allscripts, NextGen, athena, GE, eClinicalWorks, McKesson, Other, Allscripts/Eclipsys, Athenahealth, Azalea Health/Prognosis, CPSI, Evident, Healthland, MEDHOST, MedWorx, QuadraMed, Self-developed, Would prefer not to disclose, Point Click Care

Hardware Compatibility:

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

Integrations:

Acute care EMR, Ambulatory EMR, Ancillary EMR, ERP system, Access +/or revenue cycle

EMR Integration & Relevant Hardware:

Recommended, but not required

EMRs Supported:

Epic

Hardware Compatibility:

Desktop

Client Types

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Differentiators

Differentiators vs EHR Functionality:

Equum Medical Intensivists leverage a systems existing EMR Infrastructure

Differentiators vs Competitors:

1. Physician-Led and Operated

Equum Medical is founded and operated by physicians, which ensures that their telehealth solutions are designed with a deep understanding of clinical workflows and patient care needs. This physician-led approach enhances the relevance and efficacy of their services.

2. Comprehensive Suite of Services

Equum Medical offers a broad portfolio of telehealth services that cover the entire acute care continuum, including:

  • Tele-ICU: Provides critical care support with board-certified intensivists and critical care nurses, ensuring real-time patient monitoring and expert consultations.
  • Virtual Nursing: Offers round-the-clock nursing support, assisting with patient assessments, medication administration, and care coordination.
  • Virtual Sitter: Enhances patient safety by providing continuous remote monitoring to prevent falls and other safety concerns.
  • Telemetry: Enables remote cardiac monitoring for early detection and management of cardiac events.
  • Multi-Specialty Telehealth: Provides access to specialists in various fields, such as cardiology, nephrology, neurology, and more.

3. Focus on Rural and Underserved Communities

Equum Medical has a strong commitment to improving healthcare access in rural and underserved areas. Their telehealth services are tailored to address the unique challenges faced by these communities, ensuring that patients receive high-quality care without the need for extensive travel.

4. Proven Outcomes and Customer Testimonials

Equum Medical's services have demonstrated significant improvements in patient outcomes and operational efficiency. Their partnerships with hospitals have led to enhanced patient care, reduced wait times, and improved satisfaction among both patients and healthcare providers. Testimonials from rural hospital executives highlight the impact of Equum Medical's services.

5. Universal Technology Approach

Equum Medical employs a tech-agnostic model that supports health system technology adoption without the need for significant infrastructure investments. This flexible approach allows them to integrate seamlessly with existing hospital systems, making it easier for healthcare providers to adopt and scale their telehealth services.

6. High-Acuity Care Expertise

Equum Medical specializes in managing high-acuity patients, providing expert care through telehealth for complex conditions. Their high-acuity care services ensure that even the most challenging cases receive the attention and expertise they require, which is particularly valuable for hospitals with limited access to specialized care providers.

7. Strong Partnerships and Recognitions

Equum Medical is recognized as a Gold Member of the National Rural Health Association (NRHA) and has been designated as the exclusive HIT Coalition partner by the NRHA and is a member of the American Telemedicine Association. These partnerships underscore their commitment to advancing healthcare and their credibility in the telehealth market.

8. Innovative Care Models

Equum Medical’s unique care delivery models, like ProviderPOD™, are designed to be scalable and adaptable, allowing healthcare providers to expand their services efficiently. These models optimize patient flow, reduce clinician burnout, and improve overall care delivery.

9. Dedicated Support for Workforce Challenges

Equum Medical addresses the ongoing challenge of healthcare workforce shortages by providing integrated virtual resources that enhance recruitment and retention. Their telehealth solutions offer a more modern, flexible work environment, helping to reduce burnout and stabilize the workforce.

By leveraging these differentiators, Equum Medical stands out as a leader in the telehealth industry, offering comprehensive, innovative, and flexible solutions that meet the diverse needs of healthcare providers and patients, particularly in rural and underserved areas.

Differentiators vs EHR Functionality:

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Differentiators vs Competitors:

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