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"EHR systems are an excellent tool for managing patient care during clinicvisits and for storing readily accessible health data, providing high qualitycontinuity of care for the patient," said Ron Brannan, CIO of the AustinDiagnostic Clinic. "However, they do not provide a convenient way to managean entire patient population for a particular disease state.
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"Kryptiq's CareManager 3.3 allows us to monitor and treat entire patientpopulations on a near real time basis, while reducing physician and clinicalstaff administrative time. Our implementation of CareManager 3.3 provides theopportunity to take advantage of this functionality for our diabetic patients.We are considering the addition of CareManager modules for other diseasestates, as we shift our focus of chronic disease management away from episodiccare to a more comprehensive management model."
CareManager modules are now available for seven disease states, includingdiabetes, stroke prevention, coronary heart disease, cancer screening, tobaccocessation, heart failure, and osteoporosis. The 3.3 release also includesupdates to existing modules, providing the most up-to-date industryestablished guidelines for the evidence-based care of patients with chronicconditions.
"Chronic diseases are the leading causes of death in America and the lackof proactive management of these diseases is driving the skyrocketing cost ofAmerican healthcare," said Luis Machuca, CEO of Kryptiq. "CareManager is themost effective tool for enabling the management of patient populations withchronic disease and we are excited to extend its industry leadingfunctionality to additional disease states on behalf of our customers."
Providence Medical Group (PMG), an employed group of 130 primary carephysicians in 12 practices in and around Portland, Oregon, has been usingCareManager since 2001 and seen significant improvements in the outcomes oftheir patients and the efficiency and functionality of its practice. By theyear 2000 PMG groups had virtually eliminated paper records; however, theysoon discovered their outcomes for diabetes were no better than the nationalaverage. Following the implementation of CareManager, Providence demonstrateda 58 percent increase in the number of diabetic patients who achieved controlof their cholesterol and blood pressure levels. These improvementssignificantly reduced the risk of heart disease across a diabetic patientpopulation of over 6,000. Providence also documented a 250 percent increase infoot screenings, helping to stem the rate of later amputations. While usingCareManager to ensure patients received the care they needed when they neededit, Providence generated more than $4,000 of additional service revenue perphysician in the first year of use, without hiring any additional staff.
About CareManager
CareManager is an award-winning disease registry solution that providesphysicians the information they need to ensure effective preventative care andtimely interventions. Unlike disease management systems that use claims data,CareManager accesses existing patient data stored in the EHR to evaluate keyhealth indicators against evidence-based treatment guidelines. This enablesinformed decision making at the point of care and allows providers to easilymonitor p
