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PolicyCore
PolicyCore

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Sickbay
Sickbay

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Product Description:

Optimize your policy management.

The Most Comprehensive Database

Access the most complete database of live and historical medical and pharmaceutical policies and related documents on the market.

Real-Time Notifications

Stay ahead with email alerts on any changes to medical and pharmaceutical policies by payer and therapy, allowing you to respond swiftly to developments that may impact your stakeholders.

Central Access

Effortlessly search and review Medical & Pharmacy policies, draft policies, prior authorization documents, coding guidelines, reimbursement updates, and more—all in one centralized location.

Comparison View

Easily identify differences between current and historical versions using our intuitive viewer that highlights changes for quick reference.

Research Control

Focus your research by filtering specific payers, plan types, states, therapies, devices, or document types, ensuring you find exactly what you need.

Visit https://www.policyreporter.com/industry/providers/ for more information and a free trial.

About Policy Reporter:

Empower your teams with Policy Reporter's payer documents library, change alerts, and reserach tools. 

Healthcare providers face numerous challenges in navigating the complex U.S. healthcare system:​

  • Keeping up with evolving medical necessity criteria, coverage policies, and billing rules​
  • Understanding and complying with diverse payer policies and prior authorization across commercial and government plans​
  • Efficiently managing revenue cycle processes in a constantly changing reimbursement landscape​
  • Ensuring patient access to necessary care while meeting payer requirements​
  • Minimizing claim denials and optimizing reimbursement​

This causes challenges such as: ​

  • Interpreting and applying complex payer policies consistently across the organization​
  • Reducing administrative burden associated with prior authorizations and claim appeals​
  • Staying current with frequent policy changes that impact reimbursement and patient care​
  • Balancing compliance requirements with operational efficiency​
  • Maximizing revenue while ensuring appropriate utilization of healthcare services​

Policy Reporter empowers healthcare providers to address these challenges by:​

  • Delivering analyst-verified alerts for tracking policy changes customize to your specialties and payer mix​
  • Simplifying access to up-to-date coverage criteria, prior authorization and reimbursement rules​
  • Offering comprehensive research capabilities to comply with key contract and claims rules​
  • Supporting efficient revenue cycle management with targeted insights and tools​

Our solutions reduce administrative burden, streamline reimbursement-related research, and empower your entire team to make informed decisions that improve patient care and financial performance.​​

Product Description:
Sickbay is an FDA-cleared clinical platform providing hospitals with the only vendor-neutral, integrated patient monitoring solution in healthcare. Sickbay consolidates disparate sourced, time-sequenced patient monitoring data with an average of 25 milliseconds per patient. Sickbay drives cost-effective patient monitoring and powers analytics by providing instantaneous and persisted physiological data to clinicians, researchers, and algorithm developers. Viewing data consolidated in Sickbay on any laptop or mobile device, on wallboards, and in on-prem or remote command centers enables clinicians to deliver the best possible care to patients throughout the hospital.
About Medical Informatics Corp:

Medical Informatics Corp.’s (MIC) mission is to deliver next-generation technologies to unify patient monitoring workflows for healthcare systems. MIC’s decade of innovation with its clinical platform, Sickbay, integrates over 30,000 vendor-neutral signals on two percent of hospital beds with over 10,000 clinical users in the United States. Most hospital systems lack native resolution data aggregated through a single source, instead deploying a multi-device strategy that silos data and data access time frames. The Sickbay Clinical Platform stands alone as the only FDA-cleared platform to aggregate time-series waveform data across disparate devices at native resolution. Current bedside devices delete data on average after 72 hours, while Sickbay saves the data indefinitely. Sickbay provides a portal through which care providers can review aggregated, time-synchronized data, annotate it, and collaborate to create algorithms (including ML & AI) and evaluate post-event care. Those algorithms and care models can then be reintroduced into the platform to advance care and innovation. Simply put, Sickbay provides the hospital teams their data from anywhere, anytime, to optimize workflows, analysis, and risk stratification across the patient care spectrum. The diverse team at MIC is fundamentally unlocking a blue ocean of new patient monitoring capabilities for ourselves, our partners, and our clients. MIC’s Sickbay saves lives, improves outcomes, streamlines strategy and technologies, and reduces the overall caring cost for hospital patients nationwide.

Compatibility level

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Clients

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Product Capabilities

Sickbay collects, integrates, & displays time-aligned medical device data for over 30k signals. Information is displayed to end users in near real-time (~25ms) on local and mobile devices.

Sickbay's Patient Monitor (PatMon) displays per patient waveform and EHR data alerting clinical end users based on parameters defined by the hospital. Sickbay's Multiple Patient Monitor (MultiMon) displays that same information for up to 100 patients on a single screen to support virtual monitoring at scale. Sickbay's Risk Stratification module displays risk score data customized per hospital to improve awareness of patient risk in higher acuity beds. Sickbay's Alert Queue module displays alerts for telemetry patients that have been newly admitted, shift changes, dietary requirements, and rhythm validation.

Sickbay integrates EHRs using interfaces for ADT information, staffing assignments, meds, & labs. Sickbay integrates directly into the EHR to automate the capture and storage of ECG strips on the patient's record without additional, time-consuming, error-prone manual steps.

Sickbay simplifies the clinical theater by centralizing patient monitoring data from devices, EHRs, camera-enabled technology, and 3rd party analytics into a single screen. This enhances the readability and interpretation required to reduce the time-to-treat a deteriorating patient. Sickbay's interface is shared between bedside and remote care teams to drive scale and efficiency. This approach reduces the risk associated with new nursing team members on staff and improves the training / onboarding by using a single platform for patient monitoring. Sickbay's analytics workbench directly connects clinical researchers with bedside teams to develop and implement custom algorithms for specific patient cohorts in near real-time.

Sickbay integrates camera-enabled technology into a single interface alongside near real-time physiological data to provide remote care teams with video support to reduce patient risk and improve the time-to-treat for patients that are deteriorating.

Use Cases

Description:

Denials Management Team:

Challenge: A sudden increase in denied claims needs to be investigated to determine the root cause.

Use Case: Your denials management team can access the specific payer policy that was in place when the claim was originally filed. This helps verify if a policy change caused the denial and provides the documentation needed for appealing the claim based on historical policy criteria.

 

Prior Authorization Team:

Challenge: Inefficient prior authorization processes lead to delays in patient care and increased administrative burden.

Use Case: Your prior authorization team can use a centralized database with the latest policy requirements for specific treatments. Automated alerts notify your team when payers update their prior authorization criteria, ensuring they have up-to-date information for quicker approvals and fewer delays.

 

Physician Advisors & Utilization Review Team:

Challenge: Aligning clinical recommendations with payer guidelines to avoid conflicts and optimize care delivery.

Use Case: Your physician advisors can review the latest payer policies to ensure that clinical decisions align with coverage criteria. This helps avoid peer-to-peer conflicts with payers and reduces the risk of denied authorizations for medically necessary services.

 

Physicians and Prescribers:

Challenge: Staying informed about changes to medication coverage criteria that could impact prescribing habits.

Use Case: Your physicians can subscribe to alerts for specific medications they frequently prescribe. When a payer updates coverage criteria, your physicians receive notifications, allowing them to adjust prescribing patterns or provide alternative treatment options in real-time.

 

Billing & Coding Teams:

Challenge: Coding errors and outdated billing practices lead to increased claim rejections and delays in reimbursement.

Use Case: Your billing and coding teams can verify the latest policy requirements for specific codes before submitting claims. This ensures compliance with payer rules and reduces the likelihood of claim rejections due to incorrect coding.

 

Contract Management Team:

Challenge: Understanding complex payment rules and negotiating favorable terms with payers.

Use Case: Your contract management team can access historical and current payer policies to gain insights into payment rules and criteria. This information can be used to negotiate more favorable contract terms, ensuring parity and compliance with payer requirements.

 

Case Management & Patient Advocacy:

Challenge: Ensuring patients receive timely and appropriate care while navigating complex payer requirements.

Use Case: Your case managers can quickly look up coverage policies for specific treatments or services needed by patients. This allows them to coordinate care more effectively and advocate for patient access to necessary treatments, even when coverage is uncertain.

 

Compliance Officers:

Challenge: Staying compliant with the constantly changing landscape of payer requirements and avoiding costly penalties.

Use Case: Your compliance officers can rely on automated alerts to track policy updates and changes across multiple payers. This allows them to update internal policies and workflows proactively, reducing the risk of non-compliance.

 

Revenue Integrity Team:

Challenge: Identifying and addressing revenue leakage due to underpayments or incorrect payer policies.

Use Case: Your revenue integrity team can use historical policy data to review denied claims and identify discrepancies in payer reimbursements. This information can be leveraged to pursue underpayment recoveries and prevent future revenue loss.

 

Pharmacy Team:

Challenge: Navigating complex formulary changes that affect patient access to medications.

Use Case: Your pharmacy team can monitor payer formulary updates through alerts, allowing them to adjust their inventory and provide patients with the most up-to-date information on medication coverage and alternatives.

Pediatric use cases:

The same use cases can be applied to your pediatric teams. 

Users:
  • Denials Management Team
  • Prior Authorization Team
  • Physician Advisors & Utilization Review Team
  • Physicians and Prescribers
  • Billing & Coding Teams
  • Contract Management Team
  • Case Management & Patient Advocacy
  • Compliance Officers
  • Revenue Integrity Team
  • Pharmacy Team

Description:
  • Patient Monitoring
  • Remote Patient Monitoring
  • Virtual Care Models: Virtual Nursing, Central Telemetry Monitoring
  • Rounding
  • Vent Management
  • Patient Risk Stratification
  • Interdepartmental Transfers
  • Automation: ECG Strip Automation, Data Management
  • Revenue: CDI, Denials Management
  • Analytics: Compliance, Billing, Cohort Management
  • Research: Algorithm Development
  • Legal: Litigation Support
Pediatric use cases:

Same as use case descriptions above.

Users:
  • Nurses
  • Respiratory Therapists
  • Doctors
  • Anesthesioligists
  • Surgeons
  • CDI
  • Revenue Cycle
  • Research
  • Analytics
  • Quality
  • Compliance
  • Legal

EHR Integrations

Integrations:

Not applicable

EMR Integration & Relevant Hardware:

Not applicable

EMRs Supported:

Not applicable

Hardware Compatibility:

Desktop, Mobile / Tablet (web optimized)

Integrations:

Acute care EMR, ADT, Access +/or revenue cycle, Other

EMR Integration & Relevant Hardware:

Required

EMRs Supported:

Epic, Cerner, Allscripts

Hardware Compatibility:

Desktop, Mobile / Tablet (web optimized), Other

Client Types

Differentiators

Differentiators vs EHR Functionality:

Quick Access!

There is no need to have your IT team plan out a complex EHR integration. Access policies via the easy-to-use portal and recieve alerts directly to your email inbox. 

Our team will quickly set up individual user access with customized alerts. 

Differentiators vs Competitors:

The Most Comprehensive Database

Access the most complete database of live and historical medical and pharmaceutical policies and related documents on the market.

Amazing Customer Support 

Our team will work to ensure you get the most out of your Policy Reporter subscription. We strive to be more than a vendor - we want to be your partner in improving patient access. 

Differentiators vs EHR Functionality:

The EHR is intended to be a point of care reference to support billing. Traditionally, only documenting discreet vitals from patient monitoring devices at single points.

Sickbay Clinical Platform:

  • captures consolidated, persistent, time-series waveform data from networked and non-networked bedside devices at its native resolution
  • re-displays near real-time, time aligned signals at an average latency of <25 mSec
  • integration of risk scores and analytics
Differentiators vs Competitors:

Sickbay is a single, interconnected platform that is designed to support dozens of use cases, therefore competition is dependent upon the use case. In addition to the data agggregation, consolidation, and visualilzation differences referenced under EHR functionality, key differentiators in patient monitoring & virtual care include: 

  • vendor neutral device integration
  • web-based to support monitoring on any PC, tablet, phone or embedded EHR workflow
  • flexible, modular design to enable ability to monitor 50+ patients across units, facilities, and vendors
  • unlimited retrospective data, from one second to one year+, to support building and sharing of trends, CDI documentation support, quality reporting
  • integration, development and deployment of near real-time risk scores and analytics into established workflows
  • automated documentation of vitals, ECG strips, and event trends into the EHR

Health Equity

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