Easily implement data analysis and decision support for cost of care management
SMR is the ideal platform for cost of care reduction initiatives.
In the human service arena, SMR supports data driven level of service recommendations by employing
assessment automation and decision support tools.
In hospital settings, SMR can be used with basic assessment models to create rule driven
level of care decisions and post hoc reviews across case data with a minimum
of data entry.
Using Data to Drive Level of Service Standardization
A critical component of controlling costs is to guide and monitor level of service decisions at the
point of admission. By using standard tools, either from industry experts or from internal guidelines,
an organization can, at a minimum, justify expenditure levels and ideally guarantee that care decisions
are made in accordance with organizational policy and industry norms and regulations.
The process of assessing patients to guide level of care decisions has shown benefit in multiple
settings. In the State of Illinois, administration of a standardized, proven industry assessment is
credited with decreasing admissions to service and foster care by thousands of children in just a few years and
saving up to 80 million dollars.
The health care and social service world is increasingly being required to either comply with level of
care standards or justify level of service decisions post hoc. By having data on those
decisions from standardized protocols, an organization can make better
decisions and justify those decisions.
This is not a mechanical process or a
replacement for human skill and judgment. Rather, it is a way of guiding the decision maker and
confirming factors that are critical for a class of decisions, and for documenting justification.
Assessment can also prepare clinicians and case managers to anticipate future issues related to level of care. For example, patients who are likely to be readmitted to the hospital or an institution can be evaluated based either on organizational risk assessments or standardized tools to support clinician judgment relative to readmission. By using these techniques a clinician can work to determine strategies that will lessen future readmission risk.
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SMR is built on the premise that organizations solve problems in similar ways. We try to
measure, not necessarily to get a perfect answer, but to have a better handle on how we can
approach a problem or challenge, and then design a solution...
Health Care providers face many different challenges that require them to measure
in a new way. New regulations and reporting requirements appear frequently, aimed
at decreasing the cost of care. In order to maintain margins providers have to be
more efficient in how they manage data....
One core principle of the SMR platform is that users should only
enter the data required to solve the problem at hand. We strive
to give the user the ability to achieve the maximum output, advice,
and analytics from the minimum data entry burden possible....
Readmission Rates will be a huge issue for hospitals beginning in 2012. Any readmission in less
than 30 days will result in a financial penalty to the hospital. This problem lends itself well
to a data driven approach to both monitoring and improvement. SMRs newest module initiative
Speed to implementation is perhaps our most important metric. Every implementation
is different, but our goal is to build a customized implementation of the SMR platform,
with minimal work for the user overnight. We are constantly driving towards "Instant On" benefits
from our systems.