Thomson Reuters and Ingenious Med are combining their clinical workflow offerings into a unified billing solution for hospitals and physician practices.
The solution is designed to help hospital clinicians improve inpatient billing efficiency and accuracy by capturing appropriate charges for treatment provided. It merges New York-based Thomson reuters' Clinical Xpert Navigator platform with IM Practice Manager, a handheld and Internet-based application from Ann Arbor, Mich.-based Ingenious Med.
The solution, available via mobile devices and a Web portal, is designed to aggregate data from the hospital information system to give clinicians real-time access to patient information such as demographics, laboratory reports, medications, radiology results and transcribed reports.
Officials with the two companies say clinicians will be able to monitor their patient’s clinical data from a single desktop view using Navigator and, with single-sign-on capability, launch directly from Navigator into IM Practice Manager. All relevant patient information in Navigator is automatically pre-populated in IM Practice Manager to avoid duplicate or incorrect data entry. This allows clinicians to quickly record procedure and diagnosis codes and automatically transmit billing data to a physician practice.
“The combination of Clinical Xpert Navigator and IM Practice Manager will help hospitals improve their ability to more easily document all charges for the treatment they provide,” said Thomas Hegelund, executive vice president at Thomson Reuters. “Through our relationship with Ingenious Med this solution will help hospitals improve revenue capture and cycle time at a time when many need it most.”