Independent Physician Associations (IPA)

Physician groups, such as IPAs, MSOs and PHOs, are consistently faced with the challenge of providing member physicians and administrators superior levels of technology at the lowest possible cost. Bringing the physician into the new world of information sharing through technology can be a key success factor for groups seeking to retain and increase membership.

Covisint delivers an OnDemand collaboration environment to quickly and effectively manage medical workflow and communications, while providing secure access to information for physician groups and their member physicians. Enhancing collaboration between physicians within the community, while enabling the sharing of ideas and information among all participating healthcare communities - this will improve the way healthcare is delivered.

An OnDemand Physician Collaboration Space:

Covisint provides physician groups with the technology platform and toolset to attract physicians to their association, increase physician adoption of technology, and ease the introduction of additional functionality as your group expands. This hosted solution offers controlled access to clinical and administrative applications at a group discount, lowering the cost of operations and providing a non-proprietary method for distributing software and hardware

Features:

Physician Group Branded - this provides the capabilities to configure the branded "look and feel" of the group's OnDemand environment, making your physicians feel right at home.

Personalization - this enables end users to personalize their collaboration space to make it more usable and functional by incorporating desktop themes, "my workspace" tab, Google Gadgets and other 3rd-party widgets, and real-time news feeds (such as healthcarenews.com)

User Group / Group Management (UGM) - this is a built-in framework that enables collaboration efforts, while protecting information by limiting access to authorized users. This tool facilitates the creation, management, and control of public, shared, and private groups within the physician setting.

Custom Dashboards - Covisint's collaboration space brings Web 2.0 technology to support leveraging the applications accessed within the environment (e.g., ePrescribe, eLab) to expose additional applications or aggregated information within a centralized view for the user (e.g., Patient Summary Dashboard).

Directed Communications - this tool facilitates quick and simple communications pipeline, enabling users to target their communications to specific roles and responsibilities (e.g. specific information sent directly to practice managers)

Message Center - enables users to share private information and messages securely (e.g. performance report cards) between groups and providers. The message center utilizes an easy-to-use folder structure, inbox status, and inbound fax support that provides the capability to send faxes directly into a user's inbox.

Patient File Exchange - this tool provides access to the users' directory with capabilities to create groups of users for accessing and sharing patient, office, or practice-specific files. Covisint's medical collaboration platform provides trusted security and control, protecting the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of data.

Patient List Management - this tool manages the list of patients within the physician office and coordinates the patient data across multiple applications. As a result, office users save time from reduced login, re-entering, and/or finding patients across multiple applications. Each office, within the physician group, has an option of integrating their practice management systems to feed data or have a patient entry screen with their environment. With Patient ID Synchronization, new or updated patient information can be synchronized across multiple applications. Patient Context Integration with Search provides the capability for physicians to search and select a patient and launch multiple applications directly to a specific patient's record.

OnDemand Identity Management - allows for secure, single sign-on access for applications and websites leveraged by the physician community. These applications include:

• eLab
• ePrescribe
• Payer websites and applications (option dependent on payer participation)
• Hospital websites and applications (option dependent on hospital participation)
• Other clinical applications

Physician Office Rollout and Deployment - this tool provides tools to let the group self-manage the rollout to the physician community or options for Covisint and partners to support.

As an OnDemand service, Covisint's collaboration space for healthcare includes:

• Setup and connection of providers
• 24x7 help desk
• The ability to access all online resources from one location with state of the art security and 'single-sign-on' functionality
• Low cost entry with the ability to expand to full HIT functionality
• Share patient demographics and results through integration with all PMS and EMR systems in the group
• The ability to transform the healthcare environment at a speed consistent with organization and user capabilities and desires
  

Solutions:

• pc2 - physician collaboration center
  This collaborative solution enables physician groups to provide member physicians a method low in cost, risk, and maintenance to securely request and access a full suite of applications -- while driving collaboration across your physician environment.

To learn more about Covisint's Physician Collaboration Center, pc2, contact a Covisint healthcare representative.

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