6 July 2020

A Celebration is on its Way!

As we head into the second half of the year, we are excited to share that PowerHealth is turning 25!

We are very much looking forward to celebrating this milestone achievement and thanking you, our clients, for your contribution to our success… stay tuned!

We know it’s been a challenging year for many and we are continuing to ensure we are here to support our clients and the critical services our health professionals are delivering.

Please continue to share with us any questions you may have during this time. We’re here to help and so please reach out if we can be of assistance.

The PowerHealth Team

PowerHealth News

Costing During COVID-19 - Q&A Session with PHS Costing Expert

This month we extended an invitation to our community to attend our information session on Costing during the COVID-19 crisis. Led by Garth Barnett, the session focussed on helping costing teams meet their costing obligations in relation to costing for COVID-19. The session also included information from the Independent Hospital Pricing Authority (IHPA) around the Australian classification and coding rules for COVID-19, and how this information relates to PowerPerformance Manager (PPM). Plus, importantly, the session provides the answers to all the costing questions we received from our costing community.

If you missed our session, we welcome you to view the 25-minute presentation and listen at your convenience. The recorded session is available HERE.

If you want to make sure you don’t miss future information sessions, please follow us on LinkedIn .

Welcome to the PowerHealth Community

PowerHealth is excited to extend our relationships within New Zealand and welcomes Nelson Marlborough and West Coast District Health Boards to our PPM community.

We are also excited to strengthen our relationship at home with one of Australia’s leading private healthcare providers, Healthscope, who are implementing PPM nationally.

PPM Case Study: Bairnsdale Regional Health Service

Empowerment, confidence and longevity in relationships remain a PowerHealth focus to add value to the client support process. These features have been core to our relationship with Bairnsdale Regional Health Service.

Based on addressing the pain points being experienced, the Bairnsdale and PowerHealth team implemented PPM and a number of initiatives to support users, building confidence and efficiency around the VCDC submission process and ongoing costing function. READ MORE >>>

Quebec’s Costing Data Analysis Platform Development

In Quebec, Canada, with over 1,300 interfaces into PPM, PowerSanté’s Performance team has leveraged all this data to develop a Performance Analysis Platform powered by Qlik Sense that is directly connected onto PPM. This platform includes a series of dynamic dashboards allowing users to analyse trajectories of care’s performance and their related cost, and encompasses different analysis approaches – comparative, scalable, and outliers, accidents or complications-based. These approaches allow users to quickly identify DRGs with poor performance, explain cost variance between encounters and encounter groups classified within the same DRG, and put a cost on “non-quality”.

In the coming months this tool is being deployed across a number of Quebec sites so that the feedback from potential hospital users can be incorporated into the final solution.

Contactless Payment

Contactless payment has become even more relevant in the current COVID-19 environment so just a note to let you know that PBRC supports EFTPOS Integration if this is something you are considering at this time.

Benefits of integrating PBRC with an existing facility include:

Reduce risk of user error
Rapid processing of credit card receipts - no double entry of data (& less contact time if paying at the cashier),
Improved collection with features such as scheduled Emails & SMS, etc.

If you'd like some more information please contact Robert Lawson and we will promptly be in touch to discuss options that meet your specific requirements.

West Hume Region & Central Hume Partnership

We're excited to share that PowerBilling & Revenue Collection (PBRC) will be part of a cloud based DXC Care Suite deployment in both the West Hume Region and Central Hume Partnership implementations, to offer a comprehensive enterprise-wide solution that simplifies and automates the complexities of healthcare billing and claiming. Read more on this story as featured in Pulse IT >>>

PowerPoints – Your questions answered

Have you got a question for one of our expert teams? We’re seeking your questions on …

Billing
Costing
Patient Safety and Risk Management
Budgeting and Forecasting

Please send any questions to marketing@powerhealthsolutions.com We’ll be sharing all questions and answers on our LinkedIn page.

Adapting to the Changing Environment

Whilst COVID-19 travel restrictions have meant we have been unable able to conduct onsite engagements, our teams have adapted well and taken to an online delivery model to allow our education programs to continue.

The PBRC implementation workshops are continuing through online platforms, with key client staff connecting from rural sites and from home. We also completed online Mirth training at SA Health and our PPM team completed an online multi-day training event for The Alfred Hospital.

Within our office we are also adapting to the current and changing environment. Where appropriate we have worked from home, connecting daily with our teams via online tools. Now back in the office, we are ensuring social distancing restrictions are met, with the Parklands (located across the road) and our foyer providing great spaces for team meetings, as demonstrated here by our Testing team.

As the environment continues to change, the future is not what we thought it would be only a few short months ago. This article from McKinsey, offers a great read outling seven actions which have come about through COVID . It considers each in terms of attitudes or practices businesses should stop, should start, and should accelerate. READ ARTICLE >>>