Data to Improve Service and Win Funding
Social service providers are increasingly being judged on
outcomes - not inputs. Treatment facilities need to justify admissions to their facilities and
will be penalized for a high incidence of adverse events.
Providers have to demonstrate positive outcomes to compete for funding.
In order to justify funding, agencies will
either have to demonstrate improving outcomes or document the difficulty of their caseloads. As Federal
and State budgets come under pressure, agencies will need tools to compete for an increasingly limited
funding pool. Some agencies may choose to implement extensive software implementations such as an EHR.
SMR's focus is to supply data to compete as quickly as possible with minimal up front effort.
SMR enables an organization to focus
primarily on generating data that can improve daily decisions and operations, and demonstrate that
improvement to funders. SMR does not focus on transactional processes such as claim submission, accounts receivable, or other
traditionally accounting and inventory functions. However, if you want to compete on the quality of your services
and generate data to improve those metrics, SMR is for you.
Some of the functions SMR supports for the social service provider are:
- Needs assessment
- Outcomes assessment
- Treatment planning
- Adverse incident reporting
- Level of service decision making support
Please Contact Us so that we can provide a demo, or offer a free instance of our software for you to explore.
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.