athenaClinicals Consulting 

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Physician Governance Structure (AthenaClinicals)

Physician leadership and engagement is essential to facilitate change. However, it must be accomplished efficiently while minimizing physician time investment.

• ​​Develop structure and charter physician workgroups by specialties

• Establish decision matrix and automation technology for mobile physician voting

• Define communication plan and expected facilitation roles to support the structure

• Define change control process flow to support structure

• Launch new physician governance structure

Acquisition Management (AthenaCollector & athenaClinicals)

Organic growth is not the only option. Acquisitions are on the increase. We partner with healthcare organizations to identify, negotiate and execute acquisitions.​

• Evaluate acquisition targets

• Facilitate operating agreements

• Evaluate organization structure and required staffing changes

• Define integrated roles and responsibilities for new organization structure

• Design acquisition integration and operating guidelines

• Define operating reporting requirements

• Execute acquisition integration plan

Creating custom structured templates for the collection of History of Present Illness (HPI), Review of Systems (ROS), Physical Exam (PE), Interpretation Templates and Procedure Template​​

• To minimize physicians building text macros to facilitate documentation

• To improve documentation accuracy of findings for higher level E/M coding and reimbursement

• To improve reportability using MEDCIN based findings

• To improve data warehouse feed reporting for risk stratification and population health

• Effectively manage contraindications in structured documentation

Creating custom encounter plans based on physician needs including order sets and structured templates

• To reduce searching time the physician spends in HPI, ROS, PE, Interpretation and Procedure templates based on the clinical manifestations of the patient

• To reduce the number of clicks the physician has to perform

• To reduce the amount of documentation time the physician spends working in the EHR versus focusing on the patient

• To establish care standards for diagnosis and monitor for patient outcomes based on the effectiveness of the medical intervention

• Establish standards to control the cost of care for Medicare Spending per Beneficiary (MSPB) measures and the 10 episode-based cost measures in the Quality Payment Program Year 2

Quality Management (QM Tab) (AthenaClinicals) 

• ​Determine the most effective strategy for quality measure reporting using the QM Tab

• Define improvement and tracking practices for use in an ACO or an at-risk financial Advanced APM

• Understanding Risk Adjustment Factor HCC/RAF score significance and population health implications

• Establish an enterprise data warehouse with a physician dashboard to track performance, risk stratify patients and population health management

• Overall Quality Payment Program and Commercial Payer strategic plan

Establish a Master Table for clinical and financial standards (Multiple Tablespace Clients Only)

• ​Establishing table standards (clinical and financial) and synchronization from the master table to child tablespaces

• Establish a standard for orders, structured templates and clinical build tables to script into new tablespaces for acquisitions or organic business growth

• Facilitate multi-tablespace data warehouse reporting

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