Ensuring an Unmatched Efficiency in Healthcare
The 10 Transformational Leaders in Healthcare Vol. 2
For the past several
decades, the healthcare delivery model has not really changed. There used to be
a time when provider or physicians used to make house calls as the patient
volume had gone up as compared to the no of physicians available to meet the
healthcare need. This model eventually changed to office-based care, wherein patients
started visiting the physician’s office for medical care and diagnosis.
However, by the year
2020, there is predicted to be a huge gap between the demand and supply for
primary care providers as well as for any other specialty of medicine. Office-based
care model is not seen to be efficient and necessary anymore. The United States
will face a shortage of between 40,800 and 104,900 physicians by 2030,
according to a new study commissioned by the AAMC. T March 14, 2017, the study
found that the numbers of new primary care physicians and other medical
specialists are not keeping pace with the demands of a growing and aging population.
This is because of the
ongoing innovations in the healthcare technology and video-based telemedicine,
which allows both patients and the physician to speak face to face. The dual
model of face-to-face and in-person approach has narrowed down to only the
face-to-face approach. Amidst all the backlash surrounding this model, it still
offers a personalized touch with the provider and is much more efficient and
cost-effective for both the patient as well as the provider. Hence, there
no longer remains the need for the provider to make house calls and for the
patient to travel all the way up to the physician’s chamber.
By leveraging the
power technology, PatientClick stands
out with its EHR solutions that enable physicians to enhance the capability of
their facilities and improve patient outcomes. Most importantly, the company
helps solve this vital issue surrounding the shortage of physicians and
clinicians with its solutions. Featuring as the Cover Story amongst our “Top 10 EMR-EHR Solutions Beyond Disruption,” Beyond Exclamation looks at the journey, the
vision, and the rise of PatientClick.
An Easy and Efficient Solution
PatientClick offers an
all-in-one secured, Electronic Health Record, Practice management, &
TeleMedicine solution with integrated automation and artificial intelligence
built in to manage the workflow of multi-location, multi-specialty
clinics.
The system offers comprehensive
scheduling, document management, and clinical note management capabilities
along with the ability to ePrescribe, securely order controlled substances, Lab
orders etc. electronically. Some of the unique features of the PatientClick
platform includes patient engagement and appointment reminders via SMS, email,
and push notifications.
The internal smart engine
of the platform takes care of the Physician’s credentialing, current contracted
rates with the payers and scrub claims and sends it to the payers upon receipt
of the response. The payment auto posts it to the patient accounts and
generates patient statements with a simple click!
The telemedicine
solutions of PatientClick integrated with EHR and Practice management enables
office staff to integrate clinical data and financial data along with video-based
face to face visit. The technology is built around the fact that there is
no fall outs or claims lost through the cracks in the process. The video-based
telemedicine also allows the provider to capture remote patient’s vital signs
data, as well as any other activity tracking device data!
“Our team in Healthcare
Technology space have more than 10 years of extensive experience. We understand
the need of Physicians or clinical staff, whereas most EHR/EMR companies build
their business based on the software developer background,” Ashish mentions
while speaking about the company’s competitors.
“Affordable Healthcare for All”
Healthcare is changing
at a very rapid pace. The new generation needs access to everything and
anything without any wait time. Along with the changing face of the healthcare
landscape, government rules and regulations are also changing rapidly to
accommodate all the changes which are primarily influenced by the technology
upgrades.
However, amidst all
these changes, the key challenge for the team at PatientClick is keeping up
with the regulatory requirements, client requirements, and keeps its technology
upgraded and up-to-date to compete in the marketplace. The team at PatientClick
dedicatedly works on what’s coming next into the market and focuses on how they
can help providers, clinical staff, to be more efficient, so as to enable them
to keep their focus on what they are best at doing. These thoughts and
approaches of the company are inversely linked with its overall goal – “Affordable
Healthcare for All!”
A Leader with a Vision
Ashish Mehta, the CEO
and Chief Visionary of PatientClick, holds a pioneering presence in the company
and in the industry owing to his extensive experience and knowledge of the
sector. His leadership allows the rest of the team at PatientClick to work on
innovative projects such as integrated telemedicine solution with EHR and
Practice management.
The inspiring leader
boasts more than 18 years of experience in Healthcare IT, Technology, and
International business. He serves as the board member of Alliant International
University and also serves as a mentor with CONNECT. Ashish has also served as
the ambassador for the World Trade Center in Cleveland, Ohio.
Making a Mark in the Industry
It was back in 2008
when EMR (Electronic Medical Records) had just started out as a digitization of
paper-based medical record to electronic. However, as time started to change,
by 2011, the first ever certification requirements by the ONC was released as
meaning use stage 1 followed by stage 2 and stage 3 requirements. Today,
PatientClick EHR is meaningful use stage 1 and stage 2 certified as well as
stage 3 modular certified, which is kind of like the Gold Standard in
Certification.
With all data being
digitized, or rather most of the clinics being digitized, the next wave is
slated to be data analytics and artificial intelligence in clinical medicines.
According to Ashish, “The financial loopholes and claim based challenges will
be eliminated as software can now read the historical data and our applications
will have enough intelligence to identify, modify, correct, and/or resubmit
medical claims and or get paid much faster than ever before. Better, more
efficient medical offices will be coming soon. Patients will get text or
push notification reminders from the doctor’s office and before you show up for
appointment the doctor’s staff will have complete information about your
insurance, deductible and out of pocket limit so you and they can plan in
advance on how you can take care of your current visit charges and the
collection cycle will hence be reduced to days from weeks or months.”
An Innovative Integration of
Mobile Technology
Aside from virtual
visits, the patient portals of PatientClick offers individuals with the capability
of intuitive scheduling, attaining informational materials concerning the
current medical conditions of the patient, and providing e-visiting billing. The
solutions of PatientClick are compatible on multi-devices and can be accessed
with ease through both an Android as well as an iPhone mobile device. This
enables the patient to identify and select the medium of interface that they
would prefer for communicating with the physicians. The usage of mobile devices
also helps assist physicians in geo-locating the patients, as well for keeping
track of all the necessary details, like the calls that were made.
A Step into the Future
Moving ahead,
PatientClick is slated to come up with artificial intelligence built into its
medical record software. This would allow providers to predict the expected
patient inflow for a day in advance as well as the likeliness of the patient
following the medication plan, and finding the patient medical adherence score,
clinical decision-making process, etc.
Since Patientclick is
an integrated EHR, Practice management, and telemedicine product, the company
helps identify the data point from each segment and runs a report across all
components for a specific clinic or even for a specific physician within a
group. Speaking about this, Ashish mentions “The decision-making based on
Knowledge and intelligent data point would put practices on a different level!”