As healthcare organizations work toward becoming Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), they need to put systems and processes in place to be accountable to patients and payers for the quality, appropriateness, and efficiency of the health care provided. In order to achieve this, ACOs need to align primary care physicians, specialists, hospitals and health plans to reduce spending while improving outcomes. NexJ can help organizations on their way to achieving ACO accreditation through information management solutions that:
- Increase efficiencies in health care delivery
- Co-ordinate local healthcare resources across the continuum of care
- Manage longitudinal patient outcomes effectively
- Encourage population-based wellness
Ideally suited for ACOs, the NexJ platform orchestrates information between integrated systems to streamline business processes and co-ordinate care activities across the entire organization.
NexJ Health Exchange provides an end-to-end solution to integrate and store health information across multiple sites and present a comprehensive patient-centered health record to both providers and patients. Using NexJ Health Exchange, ACOs can:
- Integrate disparate clinical systems to provide the care team with seamless access to timely and accurate information at the point of care.
- Reduce duplication of unnecessary tests and prevent errors by facilitating secure communications between providers in the context of the patient record.
- Increase efficiencies in clinical workflow by automating activity plans to coordinate healthcare resources across the continuum of care so the entire organization can work together.
- Manage care team adherence to clinical best practices by integrating clinical decision support systems using evidence-based order sets and condition-specific guidelines.
- Reduce unnecessary re-hospitalizations by providing patients with personalized instructions on managing their healthcare post-discharge.
- Effectively plan and recruit the right healthcare professionals by efficiently managing the credentialing process for healthcare professionals.
- Promote patient engagement and enable community outreach through remote patient monitoring, medication adherence and chronic disease management programs at home.
NexJ Connected Wellness provides a comprehensive solution that enables ACOs to engage their members through health promotion and disease screening programs and provide personalized disease and wellness management. Using NexJ Connected Wellness, ACOs can:
- Promote health literacy by providing health plan members with access to their medical records linked to the right health information from trusted sources of content.
- Improve member services through intelligent interactions over multiple channels, including phone, web and mobile devices.
- Increase early detection of disease and mitigate impact through health risk assessments and disease screening programs.
- Enable efficient resource matching by connecting patients to the right healthcare professionals within the network to ensure they get the right care at the right time.
- Enhance wellness and preventative care by providing personalized care plans for patient self-care, medication adherence and sustainable behavior change.
