Hospitals
How Hospitals Benefit from Working with Curaspan
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The Curaspan Synchronized Patient Management™ solution streamlines labor-intensive and largely paper-based processes involved in moving patients from one level of care to another: discharge planning, transport ordering and utilization review. With a Web-based platform that incorporates a unique combination of workflow tools, content and service, hospitals connect electronically with community partners and payers to collaborate more efficiently, in a more timely manner. |
There are numerous benefits in using our solution, including increased satisfaction for both clinicians and patients. Nurses, for example, are more productive and fulfilled attending to patient care instead of filling out paperwork. And patients are more satisfied with the degree of choice afforded them. Hospital leaders can depend on a technology foundation for new models of care and reimbursement as well as a rich and easily accessible flow of business intelligence on key metrics for better decision-making. |
Hospital Leadership
| Challenges | Benefits of Curaspan |
|---|---|
Maintaining profitability. |
Substantial ROI.With a low initial investment, Curaspan typically pays for itself within three months and provides a tenfold return each year. |
Partner relationships. |
Better collaboration for better outcomes.Structured workflow and secure, real-time communications enable providers, payers and suppliers to connect and collaborate for better results, increasing satisfaction among all participants in the continuum of care. |
Compliance. |
HIPAA-compliant platform and applications that generate documentation.Curaspan utilizes 128-bit encryption and secured EDI of patient information via HL7 protocol. Our Web-based platform and applications are HIPAA- and ARRA-compliant and provide automatically generated audit trails, complete with date and time stamps. |
Identifying and eliminating inefficiencies. |
Decreased manual labor. Increased productivity.A Curaspan clinical account executive analyzes your current workflow and identifies opportunities for significant time- and cost-savings. On average, we save each hospital more than 2,000 hours per year. |
Optimizing patient throughput. |
Reduced LOS.The Curaspan patient management solution reduces LOS while helping transition each patient to the most appropriate post-acute setting (an average of 0.5 day to a facility, 0.25 day to home-health agency). |
Getting meaningful data to inform decision-making. |
Automated reporting functionality.With a suite of 26 standard reports (and many more that can be customized), key data and trending information literally are at your fingertips in intuitively designed charts, graphs and tables. Whether it's productivity reports, readmission rates or network leakage, you'll have the business intelligence you need for strategic planning initiatives. |
Avoiding costly, difficult-to-use IT investments. |
Easy-to-implement, user-friendly solutions.SaaS-based, the Curaspan Synchronized Patient Management solution requires no capital investment. We'll have you up and running in just weeks with minimal involvement from your IT department, and will continue to manage all releases, operations, infrastructure and upgrades going forward. |
VPs and Directors of Case Management
| Challenges | Benefits of Curaspan |
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Ensuring timely, targeted placements. |
Automation links patient needs with choice.Our industry-leading Web-based software includes a matching algorithm for LOC, clinical requirements and geography with providers in the Curaspan Provider Data Bank™, the industry's largest and most up-to-date database. |
Optimizing patient throughput. |
Reduced LOS.Curaspan reduces LOS while helping transition each patient to the most appropriate post-acute setting (an average of 0.5 day to a facility, 0.25 day to home-health agency). |
Compliance. |
HIPAA-compliant software that generates documentation.Curaspan utilizes 128-bit encryption and secured EDI of patient information via HL7 protocol. Our secure, Web-based communications platform is HIPAA- and ARRA-compliant and provides automatically generated audit trails, complete with date and time stamps. |
Generating meaningful reports, easily. |
Automated reporting functionality.Curaspan helps you develop reports for senior management. With a suite of 26 standard reports (and many more that can be customized), key data and trending information literally are at your fingertips in intuitively designed charts, graphs and tables. |
Choosing user-friendly technology. |
No steep learning curve.Curaspan products are built with clinical expertise from case managers, discharge planners and social workers. They're easy to use and require less than three hours of training. |
Maximizing post-acute relations. |
Monthly post-acute provider scorecards.Among the array of reports at your disposal is a monthly provider scorecard that enables you to track response times, number of referrals and acceptance rates. |
RNs and Social Workers
Paperwork overload.
Comprehensive electronic referral packages.
DischargeCentral® pulls out relevant patient data and documents from medical records for you to utilize electronically. With forms automatically filled in and included in the package, it's easier for you to update and send a package to multiple post-acute providers at once.
Phone tag and faxing.
Automated, real-time communication.
Automated workflow tools allow you to send referrals to multiple post-acute facilities at once, and then check the system to see which ones have been accepted. By eliminating the need to spend hours sending faxes and making phone calls, you're free to devote more time to patients. Each month, we save hospitals more than 2.5 million pages of faxing.
Patient advocacy.
Automation links patient needs with choice.
Our industry-leading Web-based software includes a matching algorithm for LOC, clinical requirements and geography with providers in the Curaspan Provider Data Bank™, the industry's largest and most up-to-date database.
Patient satisfaction.
Ready-to-print-and-review provider-matching list.
DischargeCentral makes patient and family communications easier and uneventful. Once the software has identified potential post-acute providers that match your criteria, it generates a provider-matching list detailing patient options, complete with maps showing their locations.
Easy-to-use technology.
Health-care professionals “love” it.
Here is typical feedback from our users: “My experience has been wonderful. I love this system so much I never want to go back to the old way.” (Source: Curaspan client survey)