On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 11:21 AM, Ken Dibble <[email protected]> wrote:
> > What industry? Medical, Automotive sales? >> > > We're a Center for Independent Living. We provide some stuff that is > defined as "long-term care" services, and a lot of other stuff that is > loosely defined as "social services". Some stuff is billable to Medicaid; > some is not. But we aren't integrating billing for the most part. Worker > time sheets will be included. > ------------ > Quite familiar with this when my mom was alive and in one. Are you going to just cross reference all docs to a specific guest? Like scan them in and drop them into a guests folder? I see a lot of manual work in this but for a round one and little funding this is as good as it gets. > > 2 years ago the company I worked for did a DocManagement system for a >> medicare payment house. Mission was to identify all the miss coded to >> incomplete documents, tally what was wrong and message them back as to why >> they were not getting paid. This was for the SE Regional payment facility >> in Nashville. Oh yeah it would also post transactions into the payable >> system for quality paper submitted as well. :) >> >> You can do A LOT with document systems if you want to. >> > > We're not using this for work flow, just for archiving/backup purposes to > address "business continuity" issues. > > We provide zillions of services under a bunch of different contracts, and > the same person can be served by different people under different > contracts. Everybody involved in serving the person has to be able to see > at least a subset of that person's paperwork and contribute to it. > > We evaluate HIPAA requirements ourselves and do not necessarily subscribe > to the standard CYA approach that most consultants advise. There is a lot > of misinformation circulated out there about what you actually can and > cannot do under HIPAA (and there are also state-level regulations to > contend with on this point). We get the proper releases but, as is > permitted by HIPAA and New York State, sharing information internally as > needed to carry out critical functions is perfectly permissible and we do > it regularly. > ------------------- > Internal usage is one thing and HIPPA was really set up for proper presentation to others I thought. > In many many ways, our model does not correspond to the medical model and > we intend to keep it that way, so we are not likely ever to use software to > control how we handle information. > ---------- > Are you closer to independent living where tiny care is given or are you a more advanced care facility? -- Stephen Russell Sr. Analyst Ring Container Technology Oakland TN 901.246-0159 cell --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/CAJidMYJiAeXvG7t6p1kgW2t5DnSkJsFef=kmxd+pv66tpgz...@mail.gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
