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Tools For Practice Tuesday: Ask Ana

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Two weeks ago I reflected about the population health tools I learned about at #HIMSS18. The focus was how platforms aggregate clinical data to make more informed clinical decisions. This week I am sharing how I learned about “Ask Ana” via VisiQuate. This is a tool to aggregate your financial data to assist in making fiscal decisions for your healthcare organization…

They do this using a unique approach, an interactive chatbot. First you enter your fiscal data into their system. They can use whatever data you have and based on their expertise in healthcare and other industries, they can gleam insights from this data. This data can play various roles for your organization and automate fiscal processes allowing time for other tasks. From the program management view, it’s ability to automatically generate reports is a powerful function. Who doesn’t need help with their quarterly reporting?

I found your ability to just “Ask Ana” questions is it’s most interesting feature. In the demonstration, the conversational nature seemed make room to have questions answered that you may not have been thinking about when you started. Here is a quick snapshot…

I am certainly not accusing your current chief financial officer of being inadequate. On the clinical side, tools like AI and Machine learning are being used to potentially catch something you might miss. AI and radiologists are working together to increase the accuracy of diagnosis; why can’t AI help with financial management as well? If you are looking at ways to perhaps better manage your revenue cycle, I would consider taking a look at “Ask Ana”.

You can find out more information about “Ask Ana” and VisiQuate’s other suite of solutions on:

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Tools for Practice Tuesday: NowPow

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Nothing like visiting the largest Health IT trade show in the world to revive my “Tools for Practice Tuesday” segment of my blog. I went to #HIMSS18 (The Health Information Management and Systems Society) to provide some coverage as social media ambassador but also a curious social worker. I wanted to understand how Health IT was tackling a variety of topics including mental health, substance use, and complex care coordination. In the coming weeks I will feature some of my favorite things I demo’ed (or somethings I didn’t a chance to but I think are wonderful).

Going to lead off with NowPow because this was closest to my heart. Being a care manager by day, I found this the most compelling piece of technology a demo’ed. Now Pow is a care management solution focusing on managing referrals “to help address their chronic health and social conditions or just stay well.” This solution engages clients and provides a nice workflow for clinicians.

The first step is building and management a resource directory. Using local information you can enter into their system or if you already have one electronically you can push that information to them. Then you can generate a referral based on that resource list. This referral is based off of demographic and diagnosis data…

Once the list is generated it can push the information to the client via SMS or email…

From the care management perspective they have taken it a step further, they have partnered with a variety of Electronic Health Record companies. This creates the ability to generate progress notes automatically from the referral. It also creates a way to manage the history of a referrals and provide follow up…

You will have to consult with them on which EHRs they partner with but I thought this was an incredible feature to manage your workflow. So if you are looking for a to manage referrals in your care management team, I would consider following up with the people at NowPow…