athenaClinicals Consulting
Physician Governance Structure (AthenaClinicals)
Physician leadership and engagement is essential to facilitate change. However, it must be accomplished efficiently while minimizing physician time investment.
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Develop structure and charter physician workgroups by specialties
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Establish decision matrix and automation technology for mobile physician voting
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Define communication plan and expected facilitation roles to support the structure
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Define change control process flow to support structure
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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.
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Evaluate acquisition targets
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Facilitate operating agreements
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Evaluate organization structure and required staffing changes
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Define integrated roles and responsibilities for new organization structure
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Design acquisition integration and operating guidelines
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Define operating reporting requirements
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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
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To minimize physicians building text macros to facilitate documentation
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To improve documentation accuracy of findings for higher level E/M coding and reimbursement
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To improve reportability using MEDCIN based findings
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To improve data warehouse feed reporting for risk stratification and population health
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Effectively manage contraindications in structured documentation
Creating custom encounter plans based on physician needs including order sets and structured templates
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To reduce searching time the physician spends in HPI, ROS, PE, Interpretation and Procedure templates based on the clinical manifestations of the patient
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To reduce the number of clicks the physician has to perform
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To reduce the amount of documentation time the physician spends working in the EHR versus focusing on the patient
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To establish care standards for diagnosis and monitor for patient outcomes based on the effectiveness of the medical intervention
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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)
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Determine the most effective strategy for quality measure reporting using the QM Tab
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Define improvement and tracking practices for use in an ACO or an at-risk financial Advanced APM
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Understanding Risk Adjustment Factor HCC/RAF score significance and population health implications
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Establish an enterprise data warehouse with a physician dashboard to track performance, risk stratify patients and population health management
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Overall Quality Payment Program and Commercial Payer strategic plan
Establish a Master Table for clinical and financial standards (Multiple Tablespace Clients Only)
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Establishing table standards (clinical and financial) and synchronization from the master table to child tablespaces
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Establish a standard for orders, structured templates and clinical build tables to script into new tablespaces for acquisitions or organic business growth
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Facilitate multi-tablespace data warehouse reporting