Article: Chart Links online at Executive Healthcare Management
Ron Miller, M.D., our President and Chief Medical Officer, and Betty Esposito, our Vice President, were asked to contribute an online editorial to Executive Healthcare Management magazine. The article is entitled “Rehabilitation Clinics Can Level the Playing Field: Leveraging Electronic Charting Solutions to Improve Documentation, Coding Accuracy, and Billing Processes.”
The article covers the ways in which rehabilitation clinics can use software to track and bill for care in order to compete effectively and earn a profit in today’s market. The article delves into how electronic charting solutions help therapists to comprehensively and accurately document patient care, reducing human error and complying with regulatory requirements.
It covers four areas where electronic charting can help level the playing field with technology-enabled resources:
- Correct Coding Initiative Edits (CCI Edits)
- Time Tracking
- Account Tracking
- Authorizations
FOTO Partnership for Data Exchange
Chart Links has partnered with Focus On Therapeutic Outcomes, Inc. (FOTO), the nation’s largest independent outpatient database and reporting service for physical rehabiliation providers, to develop a data exchange between FOTO’s Patient Inquiry(r) software and Chart Links Rehabilitation Software.
“Chart Links is expanding its outcomes and analytics offerings to aid patient care and ensure compliance requirements,” says Ron Miller, MD, Chart Links Presdient and Chief Medical Officer. “Our partnership with FOTO offers providers a convenient way to get at functional and demographic data that will support decisions to maximize their clinical efficiency.”
“Our first goal is to eliminate any duplicate data entry,” says FOTO CEO Ben E. Johnston, Jr., PT. “Once that is complete, we will investigate other ways that we might benefit our mutual clients.”
FOTO has been gathering functional outcomes data since 1992 and is currently installed in approximately 1,800 clinics in the United Satates and Israel. FOTO’s 24 month comparative data set includes approximately 180,000 completed patient episodes from orthopedic, neurologic, industrial, and pain management programs. FOTO’s Patient Inquiry Software was recommended by CMS in Transmittal 63.
To learn more, visit the outcomes page on our website.
Article: Documentation & Workflow, A Case for Computerization
Ann W. Kummer, PhD, CCC-SLP, ASHA-F, was published in ADVANCE for Speech-Language Pathologists & Audiologists. The article is entitled “Documentation & Workflow: A Case for Computerization.”
The article is about how today’s health care providers – who face pressures of increased documentation and communication requirements, increased compliance issues, and business-related issues like obtaining authorizations — can leverage information technology to automate processes, streamline workflow, reduce billing errors, increase coding compliance, and improve the quality, consistency and turn-around time of patient documentation.
Ann Kummer, PhD, is the senior director of the Division of Speech Pathology at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and a professor of clinical pediatrics at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center.
To learn how the Division of Speech Pathology at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center (CCHMC) used Chart Links Rehabilitation Software to reduce its documentation and administrative demands, read their case study.