HealthWyse: Meeting the Financial, Clinical, Analytical, and Reporting Needs of Home Care Agencies

HealthWyse: Meeting the Financial, Clinical, Analytical, and Reporting Needs of Home Care Agencies

HealthWyse Inc. Industry High tech electronic medical record software Products and Services Integrated clinical and financial information software and services for home health, hospice, and private-duty agencies Web Site www.healthwyse.com SAP s SAP SQL Anywhere suite When HealthWyse Inc. wanted to develop a fully integrated clinical and financial software solution for its customers, it implemented the SAP SQL Anywhere suite. The integrated HealthWyse solution enables home care agencies to operate more efficiently, improve patients clinical outcomes, and meet compliance requirements while benefiting from industry best practices. 2

Meeting today s home healthcare challenges Founded in 1998, HealthWyse Inc. provides integrated clinical and financial information software and services to home health, hospice, and private-duty agencies. HealthWyse is headquartered in Wilmington, Massachusetts, and partners with agencies across the United States. The HealthWyse software suite facilitates billing, scheduling, and point-of-care operations helping agencies to better address profitability, compliance, and care delivery. The company was founded on the principle that, with an integrated healthcare software system, agencies can successfully compete on the basis of superior outcomes delivered at a predictable cost. HealthWyse provides the tools needed to meet this challenge. HealthWyse is a preferred provider for member agencies of the Visiting Nurse Associations of America (VNAA). The company is also the recipient of the prestigious Computerworld Laureate award in the category of mobile healthcare solutions. 125+ Home care agencies in 40 states using HealthWyse solutions 3

Helping home care agencies improve efficiency and outcomes HealthWyse is dedicated to helping home health, hospice, and private-duty agencies deliver highquality patient care that leads to the best possible medical outcomes. The intuitive software that it develops also increases clinician efficiency and reduces costs. With its robust reporting and analytics software, HealthWyse provides its customers with the clinical and financial data they need. Its products have enabled HealthWyse to forge trusted relationships and partnerships with major healthcare organizations, including accountable care organizations (ACOs), regulatory agencies, and integrated health systems. 4

The only product that met the criteria HealthWyse enables home care, hospice, and private-duty agencies to address critical needs such as analytics and ACO preparedness. The fully integrated electronic medical record solution is built on a single database addressing agency needs from intake through final billing. To power its data-intensive solution, HealthWyse needed a full SQL database that would run on laptops, tablets, and other mobile devices. It also needed reliable and efficient bidirectional synchronization technology to ensure that everyone from visiting nurses to agency managers was working from the same information. It evaluated a number of database and synchronization offerings at the time it was developing its solution and found that the only software that could meet its criteria was the SAP SQL Anywhere suite. According to Andrew S. Braunstein, cofounder and CTO at HealthWyse, The other products we looked at either weren t real SQL databases or didn t have synchronization functionality. SAP SQL Anywhere was the only product we felt we could build our solution on. The HealthWyse solution automates and documents all aspects of home care, hospice, and private-duty agency operations. The comprehensive software suite addresses all areas of agency operations from point of care to back-end claims submission, billing, clinical and financial reporting, and analytics. The support we ve received from SAP has been phenomenal. We just wouldn t be comfortable gambling our business with another vendor. Andrew S. Braunstein, CTO, HealthWyse Inc. 5

SAP SQL Anywhere keeps systems running HealthWyse s fully integrated clinical and operational solution improves productivity and outcomes for home health, hospice, and private-duty agencies by automating data capture, data management, data movement, reporting, and analytics. Powering this comprehensive and potent solution is SAP SQL Anywhere, an industry-leading embedded database management and data movement technology suite built for frontline environments. SAP SQL Anywhere provides data management and data movement technologies that enable the rapid development and deployment of database-intensive applications. SAP SQL Anywhere offers enterprisecaliber databases that scale from 64-bit servers with thousands of users down to small handheld devices. Its bidirectional data movement technologies extend information in corporate applications and enterprise systems to databases running in mission-critical frontline environments. Design and management tools within SAP SQL Anywhere enable developers to implement and deploy frontline applications and equip administrators to manage and support them. The HealthWyse solution provides an example of this. It helps ensure data integrity while reducing the IT burden on healthcare agencies since no IT personnel are required to maintain SAP SQL Anywhere. All software upgrades including those for point of care are managed by HealthWyse, with no interruption in business operations. Building SAP SQL Anywhere into our solution has been a key factor in HealthWyse s success. SAP SQL Anywhere enables us to keep our systems running. Andrew S. Braunstein, CTO, HealthWyse Inc. 6

Significant ROI and improved clinical outcomes Customers choose the HealthWyse software and stick with it because it enables them to achieve measurable performance gains and produce optimal clinical outcomes. The solution facilitates flexible point of care, intelligent billing capability, optimized and compliant workflows, full integration, and a robust, zero-maintenance database that typically produces a positive ROI within 12 to 15 months. A client recently noted that HealthWyse helped it achieve the following benefits: Reduced billing staff FTEs by 50%, even while billings grew 55% Reduced accounts receivable time from 55 days to 30 days Increased days cash on hand from 88 days to 290 days 450 Standard reports run, while still able to run ad hoc reports on demand CMP ID 29766 (14/03) 7

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