Around the world healthcare organizations are facing an operating environment of rising medical costs, increased demand for services, reducing financial reimbursements, increasing scrutiny from patients, governments, insurers and employers, and a stiff competition to gain more optimal consumers of healthcare. The soaring prices paid to treat the growing volumes of demanding, aging patients and patients with chronic disease conditions are prompting the search for more efficient ways of treatment and care as well as address increasing patient safety concerns. Consumers and employers are demanding better service and outcomes while regulatory agencies are pushing for mandated improved efficiency and service levels. This must be balanced with the need to control expenses, increase workforce productivity and effectively manage increasingly scarce resources.

According to In 2007, the U.S. spent $2.26 trillion on health care, an increase over 2002 of four times the rate of inflation, and the spend is projected to increase to $4.14 trillion by 2016. Errors in medical delivery are associated with an alarming number of preventable, often fatal adverse events. According to a recent estimate from the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, “…at least 48,000 and perhaps as many as 98,000 Americans die in hospitals each year as a result of medical errors….Deaths due to preventable adverse events exceed the deaths attributable to motor vehicle accidents (43,458), breast cancer (42,297), or AIDS (16,516).”

A study by the Rand Corporation found that if most hospitals and physician offices adopted electronic health records, up to $77 billion of savings would be realized each year through improvements such as reduced hospital stays, avoidance of duplicative and unnecessary testing, more appropriate drug utilization, and other efficiencies promoting reduction of administrative waste, increased staff productivity, and increased patient safety to name a few.

Our goal is to help healthcare organizations improve the quality, safety, efficiency, and effectiveness of health care through a combination of products and services focused on delivering a highly performant, reliable Integrated Health Information Management infrastructure. The result – delivery of best care possible for $ spent!

Healthcare Delivery Systems – the world over - fail to consistently deliver the right care for every person, every time. To become a Highly Performant Delivery System there is a need for better systems and integrated processes for healthcare workers, healthcare sponsors and patients, and more rapid dissemination of proven approaches. To achieve this vision for High Performance, every healthcare system should practice healthcare that is safe, effective, patient-centered, timely, efficient, and equitable.

In order to work toward high quality, accessible, and affordable health care, advanced tools are needed that can be used by clinicians, patients, health system leaders and others to support health services research on clinical outcomes, quality, cost, use of resources, and access to care . . . to help them make more informed health care decisions. Accurate, accessible, and shareable health information is a well accepted prerequisite of quality in health care

Patient safety is affected by inadequate information, illegible entries, misinterpretations, and insufficient interoperability. Public safety, a major component of public health, is diminished by the inability to collect information in a coordinated, timely manner at the provider level in response to epidemics and the threat of terrorism. Continuity of patient care is adversely affected by the lack of shareable information among patient care providers. Clinical research, quality measurement and outcomes analysis are adversely affected by a lack of uniform information capture that is needed to facilitate the derivation of data from routine patient care documentation.

PluralSoft has the Leadership, Products, Solutions and Services, and Partnerships to enable healthcare organizations maximize ROI in their information management solutions. Further. PluralSoft consultants have good knowledge of industry recognized Hospital Information Systems, EMR, Practice Management Systems, Radiology Information Systems and Picture Archiving Systems, Hospital Revenue Management/Billing Systems, Drug Databases, Insurance Claims Processing Systems to name a few.

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