

This is essential for our revenue integrity, and for our patients.” Alternately, they used the solution within their Cerner EHR, and the IT Director of Operation Services told MCG, “Indicia for Admission Documentation provides the utilization review nurses the ability to engage with MCG evidence-based care guidelines without workflow disruption.

Diane Davis, the Utilization Review Manager at Stormont Vail Health said, “By providing the easy and quick access to the clinical documentation with Indicia for Admission Documentation, it allows us to get the admission status correct up front, which saves us time downstream from denials and re-work.”Ī major metropolitan hospital system in the Midwest with over 450 beds was another early adopter of Indicia for Admission Documentation. Stormont Vail Health, a 586-bed acute care hospital in Topeka, Kansas, was an early adopter of Indicia for Admission Documentation, and their staff used it within the Epic EHR. Indicia for Admission Documentation works with virtually any EHR system to help streamline the clinical workflow allowing clinicians to spend less time documenting their decisions to validate payment and more time to care for patients. According to MCG, this helps support more informed, patient-specific decisions, and it promotes robust documentation to justify short inpatient stays which can have a major impact to a hospital’s financial solvency. The best available evidence is automatically surfaced by the solution’s interface and can be easily added to the patient’s chart via the click of a button. Indicia for Admission Documentation uses the Synapse reasoning engine to analyze a patient’s medical record and recommend the appropriate care guideline(s) for a patient’s clinical situation. According to MCG, he potential benefits to hospital intake staff include improved reviewer efficiency, increased accuracy of clinical documentation, and care guidance that is tailored to individual patient diagnoses.
MCG HOSPITAL SOFTWARE
This new software leverages patient-specific data in the electronic health record (EHR) and clinical indications in the nationally-recognized MCG care guidelines to inform medical decisions at the point of hospital admission. MCG Health, part of the Hearst Health network and an industry leader in evidence-based guidance and healthcare technology, announces the official launch of its new solution, Indicia for Admission Documentation with Synapse. Indicia for Admission Documentation compares EHR data to MCG care guidelines to improve reviewer efficiency.
