WellCentive Supports

Preventative Care

The WellCentive system captures and reports on all preventative care clinical indicators, which can help keep your patients as healthy as possible as well as document the preventative care you have provided.

Chronic Disease Management

The WellCentive system excels as a chronic disease management tool. It captures data regarding individual patient´s demographics, medical conditions, medications, care, immunizations, and labs and allows the user to use all of this information in a patient-specific, disease-specific, or population-specific way to provide and document the best care possible.

The WellCentive system can interface with in-home medical devices such as glucometers, scales, blood pressure devices, medication dispensers, etc. Home care nurses can post digital photos of wounds to any patient´s chart and discuss the patient´s care with the treating physician using the WellCentive Secure Messaging system.

Pay for Performance

The WellCentive system is a valuable and cost effective tool that can be used to improve your Pay for Performance data collection and reporting at the same time that it can help you to improve the quality of care you deliver. A significant ROI can be very easy to achieve. See the Westshore Health Network Case Study for more information.

Outbound interfaces to a variety of payers is a cost effective and efficient way of sending payers the necessary PFP data on a regular basis. The payers are supportive, because these interfaces provide them with more complete and more accurate data more frequently and lower their costs as well.

WellCentive supports both Primary Care PFP and Specialty Care PFP.

Population Management

The WellCentive system is a powerful population management tool that can help your physicians provide high quality care to all of their patients, not just the ones who are in the office for follow up.

• Do you want to know which of your patients who have a chronic disease or who are 65 years or older have never had a flu vaccine?
• Do you want to know which of your diabetic patients had their last retinal exam over a year ago?
• Do you want to know which of your female patients ages 21 to 64 had their last Pap smear over 3 years ago?
• Do you want to know which of your CHF patients with an LVEF < 40% are not taking an ACE-I or an ARB?
• Do you want to know which of your HTN patients had a SPB > 130 or a DBP > 80 over the last 3 months?

You can use the information from these reports to contact patients and arrange for the care they need. The Patient Reminder system can also help with population management.

Clinical Integration

Physician Organizations that do not use the Messenger Model for contracting must be Clinically Integrated according to the Federal Trade Commission. PHO´s and IPA´s that are in violation of this federal law can be shut down, their physicians can be fined, and their officers can be incarcerated.

Clinical Integration means that a physician organization´s primary care and specialty physicians are actively working together on an ongoing basis to control health care costs and to improve clinical quality.

The WellCentive system is ideal for Clinical Integration programs. Not only is it an inexpensive and comprehensive preventative care and chronic disease management system, but a Web-based system like the WellCentive registry that is integrated with area health care information systems can "sit over" other solutions in your organization - including EMR´s and paper charts - and tie them together.

Primary care physicians and specialists can use the WellCentive Secure Messaging system to securely communicate with each other about patient care, and your organization´s Medical Management Committee can create clinical guidelines that can be posted in the WellCentive system.

The Patient Centered Medical Home

The WellCentive system supports The Patient Centered Medical Home concept with the following standard features:

• The WellCentive system is an affordable HIT tool that captures and reports information regarding preventative care and chronic disease management on a patient-specific, disease-specific, and population-specific basis.
• The WellCentive Alerts System allows organizations to create evidenced-based guidelines and reminders that can be viewed at the point-of-care.
• The WellCentive Patient Portal allows patients to log into the WellCentive system from home and gives them the ability to view, add, and edit some of the data in their charts.
• The WellCentive Secure Messaging System allows providers and their staff to securely message each other about patient care issues. Patients and their physicians can also securely message each other using this system.
• The WellCentive Survey System allows physicians and their organizations to survey patients and physicians regarding a variety of topics including patient satisfaction.
• The WellCentive Report Manager allows physicians and their organizations to regularly report on quality outcomes.

Direct Reporting to Payers

WellCentive was chosen as one of twelve registry vendors systems across the United States to test direct reporting of clinical and administrative data to CMS for the PQRI program.

Organizations that use WellCentive systems will be able to send their physicians´ data directly to CMS, which will help reduce data submission costs and improve physician engagement in this program.

PQRI is widely believed to be a precursor to mandatory outcomes reporting to CMS, and WellCentive can help your organization and your physicians get ready.

WellCentive has experience building outbound interfaces to other payers as well. Pay for Performance programs are growing in number and value, and physicians or their staff are often required to sign in to each payer´s own registry to manually review and enter data to make sure they are getting the PFP payments they have earned. Outbound interfaces to a variety of payers is a cost effective and efficient way of sending payers the necessary PFP data on a regular basis. The payers are supportive, because these interfaces provide them with more complete and more accurate data more frequently and lower their costs as well.