Disease management tool facilitates communication, leverages physicians’ technology investments, improves quality of patient care
PORTLAND, OR – April 3, 2009 – Kryptiq Corp. has released CareManager 3.5, an enhanced version of its chronic disease management and patient-outreach solution. During this challenging economic climate, many patients are delaying or avoiding medical treatment due to high cost. More than ever, physicians must be able to reach and communicate with patients, including those missing necessary treatments, to avoid unnecessary medical complications and resulting increases in healthcare costs.
CareManager is a solution for physicians using the GE Centricity® electronic medical record (EMR) system. Along with Kryptiq’s Connect IQ® product suite, CareManager incorporates the use of collaborative technology such as secure messaging. With this, physicians cost-effectively streamline their approach to chronic care, maintain timely communication with patients and share critical preventative and intervention information.
Since 2006, physicians at Decatur Memorial Hospital in Decatur, Ill. have used CareManager to assess and manage chronic care populations, ensure patients’ compliance with treatment plans and become more active in overall care. Decatur Memorial Hospital’s use of CareManager helped its physicians to receive recognition from the NCQA for Diabetes Management in 2008.
“Without CareManager, it would be difficult for me to know how effectively we’re treating our patients with chronic disease,” said Dr. Timothy Miller, family medicine physician at Decatur Memorial Hospital. “It’s an issue of quality – quality of the care I provide, and the communication I have with patients.”
New to CareManager 3.5 is a certified PQRI Registry for data submission to Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), and a comprehensive asthma module. This adds to the growing suite of modules, which includes diabetes, heart failure and stroke prevention modules, among others. Together, PQRI reporting and the chronic disease modules enable physicians to achieve improved revenue for improved care.
“Building on Decatur’s EMR investment, CareManager allows our physicians to more proactively and efficiently manage chronic care, rather than rely on disparate episodes of care,” said Jim Dobbins, Director, Physician EMR, Decatur Memorial Hospital.
Physicians’ ability to submit data directly to CMS for the reporting year allows organizations to use a single submission for all eligible patients and providers. The new asthma module assures accurate identification and documentation of an Asthma Action plan, decreasing the risk of asthma-related complications by identifying treatment and monitoring opportunities and medication safety concerns. It also supports quality improvement efforts by providing an automated system for monitoring asthma-related performance measures.
“CareManager complements the open network of collaboration that Kryptiq’s customers are utilizing to bring real change, efficiency and quality to the U.S. healthcare system,” said Luis Machuca, president and CEO of Kryptiq Corp. “As the industry increasingly invests in health IT, the resulting technology must present meaningful use, delivering the best clinical and financial outcomes for providers and patients.”
For more information on CareManager or Kryptiq, visit www.kryptiq.com or HIMSS Booth #3837.
About Kryptiq Corporation
Kryptiq stands for fundamental, pragmatic change in healthcare. The company facilitates a first-of-its-kind collaborative network of care between physicians, patients and health plans. By using Kryptiq’s technology to share and utilize information, physicians gain better patient engagement, optimize practice revenue and enhance communication with health plans.
In an era when health information is siloed, Connect IQ® and Choreo® bring mobility to data, making it increasingly valuable and actionable. With Connect IQ, physicians and their staff securely collaborate with their colleagues, practices become more efficient, and patients gain access to personalized healthcare services. Choreo equips health plans with new levels of executive insight into provider networks, improving decision making, process efficiency and rapid response to changing market conditions. For more information on the company, visit www.kryptiq.com.
About Connect IQ
The Connect IQ product suite frees physicians to practice medicine by expanding their reach and ability to digitally communicate with the healthcare community. Connect IQ allows physicians to build on existing investments in practice management, EMR and HIE systems. For those without a current technology platform, Connect IQ allows physicians to share information simply, by eliminating unreliable paper-based workflows.
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