COMET™ Could Support Efforts to Mitigate the Unfavorable Impact of a Fiscal Cliff Scenario

As 2013 quickly approaches, many of us are setting resolutions for the coming year. From an operational perspective, the “Fiscal Cliff” is weighing heavily on long term and post-acute providers (LTPAC) as they identify ways to streamline operational and financial efficiencies.

The “Fiscal cliff” is the popular shorthand term used to describe what citizens of the U.S. face on January 1, 2013 when the terms of the Budget Control Act of 2011 are scheduled to go into effect.

Among the laws set to change at midnight on December 31, 2012, are the end of last year’s temporary payroll tax cuts (resulting in a 2% tax increase for workers), the end of certain tax breaks for businesses, shifts in the alternative minimum tax that would take a larger bite, the end of the tax cuts from 2001-2003, and the beginning of taxes related to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). At the same time, the spending cuts agreed upon as part of the debt ceiling deal of 2011 will begin to go into effect. According to Barron's, over 1,000 government programs - including the defense budget and Medicare are in line for "deep, automatic cuts." This includes Medicare cuts to physicians and, most likely to reimbursement to LTPAC and other healthcare services (source).

The possibilities of increasing reimbursement, enhancing overall efficiency and saving costs through LINTECH’s COMET™ could significantly support facilities in their efforts to mitigate the unfavorable impact of a fiscal cliff scenario.  

Integrated solutions include:

• Resident/Patient Account Suite: is the most efficient, effective and powerful integrated LTPAC clinical and financial tool for your facility's revenue cycle management.
• Clinical/EMR Suite: comprehensive solution for every aspect of charting and documenting patient care, from tracking and managing, to assessing, planning, retrieving and reporting.
• Financial & Administrative Services Suite: offers the most advanced, comprehensive yet easy-to-use LTPAC solution for managing your accounting and administering your business processes at the user, department and facility levels.

Contact us to discuss your operational goals and how LINTECH can be your valued partner in achieving your efficiency resolutions in 2013.

Happy New Year from LINTECH

The team at LINTECH would like to wish you a bright and cheerful New Year!

Merry Christmas from LINTECH!

The team at LINTECH would like to wish our followers a Merry Christmas!

COMET™ Point-of-Care (Touchscreen) Application is as Easy to use as an ATM

Say goodbye to the old-fashioned way of entering data. With the COMET™ Point-of-Care application, finding out a resident’s information has never been easier. It was designed to be user-friendly, with convenient, recognizable graphic icons that serve as virtual buttons.

Users can easily locate a resident, with each patient having his or her own photo on the screen. Also, the application allows for flowcharts to be mastered in just minutes. Your staff – even inexperienced computer users – will love using it. If they can master an ATM, they can easily master the COMET Point-of-Care application.

To learn more about this product, read here or contact us at (877) 4-LINTEC.

LINTECH Makes End of Year Reporting and Budgeting Easier

The COMET™ Financial & Administrative Services Suite was created to give you the most advanced and comprehensive internal and external reporting capabilities available. The COMET Budget application provides your facility with the ultimate flexibility. Current and prior year comparisons help your facility see where you have been and where you are going financially and you can easily plan and forecast with multiple factors.

Your company’s financial budgeting and end of year reporting has never been easier with LINTECH’s COMET Financial & Administrative Services Suite. It provides the flexibility to begin the budgeting process using the zero-based method or by prior year initialization. You are also able to manipulate budgets by seasonality or for inflation.

To learn more about how our products can better serve your facility, learn more here or contact us at (877) 4-LINTEC.

Happy Hanukkah!

The team at LINTECH would like to wish our followers who celebrate Hanukkah a very wonderful holiday, full of light, warmth and joy!

CAST LeadingAge Case Study Findings

LINTECH’s COMET™ Point-of-Care application was recently the subject of a CAST case study provided by Monroe Community Hospital at the LeadingAge Annual Meeting. The case study, Upgrading an Existing EHR (Electronic Health Record), provided answers to questions about implantation, use and impacts of EHRs in regards to long-term and post-acute care (LTPAC) providers.

One of the outcomes of the case study showed that COMET helped save valuable employee time. There was an improvement in workflow specifically for certified nursing assistants (CNAs). Previous paper documentation is usually completed in the last hour of a CNA’s shift. Now this time has been given back to direct resident care. The accuracy of the documentation has improved because observations and treatments are recorded immediately after they are completed, rather than at the end of a shift. They are also not influenced by what has already been documented.

Check back for other outcomes from the LeadingAge CAST case study.

Technology Will Play Major Role in Preventing Rehospitalization

A recent article in McKnight's stated that technology, including electronic health records, will play a large part in preventing rehospitalization.

“We’re seeing more and more technology vendors implementing interoperability and pursuing certification for long-term and post-acute EHRs. We’re also seeing some of the members starting to think about advanced features,” said Majd Alwan, Executive Director of CAST and LeadingAge Senior Vice President of Technology.

LINTECH being one of the members Alwan refers to is what makes them a leading provider of long-term care software.

To learn more details, read the article here.

COMET MDS Software Solution eliminates billing errors

A recent article from Long-Term Living claims that 25% of skilled nursing facility claims in 2009 contained errors, resulting in a $1.5 billion loss from “inappropriate Medicare payments.” The good news is that with COMET's MDS 3.0 Application, issues like this won't occur. 

LINTECH designed this application not only to save you time but also to eradicate errors - all by having the maximum amount of information from other applications flow into our MDS Software Solution. The errors that cause incorrect Medicare payments simply cannot happen with LINTECH, because any data entered into our COMET MDS Application flows automatically into the appropriate fields, including the applicable fields in our billing application. There is absolutely no human intervention in the process, so we do not have the issue with errors this article refers to.

Here are some of the benefits to our MDS Software Solution:

• Assessment Scheduler schedules and tracks due dates for assessment completion
•  Defaults demographic, census, Point-of-Care (Touchscreen), rehab, orders, assessments,  infections, wound and other information from the EMR - no need to re-enter
•  Automatically calculates RUG III, RUG IV and Care Area Triggers
•  Automatically updates RUG IV information in the billing system

To see more benefits and features, click here.

Happy Thanksgiving

The team at LINTECH would like to wish our followers a safe and happy Thanksgiving!

LINTECH is Running at 100%

Good news! After being 90% functional last week by moving the servers to an alternate location, power was restored to LINTECH's corporate office during the weekend and we are now fully back in service!

Thank you for all of your continued support through this difficult time for so many hit by Hurricane Sandy.

Warm regards,

Udi Polonsky, CEO

LINTECH

LINTECH Still Serving Clients After Hurricane Sandy

Dear Valued LINTECH Clients:

Thank you for the well wishes and thoughts many have been sending in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. Fortunately, our team is safe. However, the LINTECH office building is without power at this point, and some of our staff's homes have been also affected, mainly with loss of power. It is hard to tell when power will be restored – we are eagerly waiting for that.

The entire team at LINTECH is focused on continuing to serve you as best as possible under these unfavorable circumstances. We hope you’ll your understand if during this time our responsiveness to your issues will not be as usual – it is due to the difficulties we are facing. We are looking forward to returning to normalcy and getting back to serve you as we have always been.

Thanks so much for your continued support.

Warm regards,

Udi Polonsky, CEO

LINTECH

Looking for a comprehensive Clinical/EMR solution?

COMET's Clinical/EMR Suite covers every aspect of charting and documenting patient care. It contains excellent enterprise tracking and managing for assessing, planning, retrieving and reporting. Click here to learn more details on this revolutionary product and to schedule a demo.

Keep on the right track with the COMET Financial & Admin Services Suite

The COMET Financial & Administrative Services Suite provides the most advanced, complete and easy to understand LTC solution for managing your organization’s accounting and administering processes at user, department and facility levels. Click here to learn more and schedule a demo.

LeadingAge Case Study Results Presented

LINTECH is excited to announce that the results of its case study with Monroe Community Hospital on electronic medical record (EMR) evaluation and implementation, as part of a 13-provider case study by the LeadingAge’s Center for Aging Services Technologies (CAST), were presented during the LeadingAge 2012 Annual Meeting and Exposition. Read more here.

LINTECH joined other industry leaders at the LeadingAge Annual Meeting

LINTECH was pleased to network with existing customers and other industry leaders during the LeadingAge Annual Meeting. Thank you for stopping by our booth!  One of the highlights was Monroe Community Hospital’s implementation of LINTECH's COMET™ Point-of-Care software case study presented at the CAST booth. Learn more how LINTECH can help keep our software goals on target. 

Last Chance to Stop by Booth #948

LINTECH is wrapping up its networking today during the LeadingAge Annual Meeting in Denver, CO. Stop by booth #948 today to discuss your information systems and business solutions goals or contact us to request a meeting. Click here to view the Exhibit Hall floor plan.

Stop by Booth #948!

Stop by Booth #948 today at LeadingAge to discuss your information systems and business solutions goals or contact us to request a meeting.  Click here to view the Exhibit Hall floor plan.

CAST Session a Success

The EHR implementation and best practice session in the CAST booth was a success.  If you missed the session, you can download the case study here. Feel free to ontact LINTECH to discuss more details of the case study and lessons learned.

Join LINTECH and Monroe Community at the CAST Booth for EHR case study

Don't forget! Stop by the CAST Booth #2217 at LeadingAge Expo to hear a case study from Joel Snyder, MCH’s Information Services Director of Monroe Community Hospital (MCH). He will be discussing how the COMETtm system has improved MCH's workflow, productivity and the quality and accuracy of real-time documentation. 

The CAST Idea Exchange session is from 12:30-3:00 p.m. Click here to view the floorplan.  If you would like to schedule an appointment with Joel to learn more, go to www.lintechsoftware.com/OnTarget.

LINTECH at LeadingAge Annual Meeting

LINTECH is networking with industry leaders during the LeadingAge Annual Meeting in Denver, CO. Stop by booth #948 tomorrow to discuss your information systems and business solutions goals or contact us to request a meeting. Click here to view the Exhibit Hall floor plan. 

You can also participate in a case study review on electronic health record (EHR) evaluation and implementation by the LeadingAge Center for Aging Services Technologies (CAST). 

Joel Snyder, Information Services Director from Monroe Community Hospital (MCH) Rochester, NY, will discuss how LINTECH's COMET™ Point-of-Care program has improved workflow, productivity and the quality and accuracy of real-time documentation. The presentation will include facts about MCH's installation of COMET™ and how it has strengthened the documentation process in the hospital.

Here are the details:
Case Study: Upgrading an Existing EHR 
When: October 22, 2012, 12:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. 
Where: CAST booth #2217

Joel will be available during Expo hours on Oct. 23 to have further conversations.

Hope to see you there!

It's time to break out our hiking boots!

LINTECH will be traveling this weekend to the LeadingAge Annual Meeting in Denver, CO. This event connects thousands of aging services professionals who are present to enhance their industry and clinical knowledge and to network and connect with solutions providers, such as LINTECH. Our team is looking forward to connecting with current customers and meeting other leading providers who are in need of a comprehensive software solution. Stop by booth #948 to discuss your information systems and business solutions goals or contact us to request a meeting.

LINTECH to participate in CAST Idea Exchange Session

LINTECH is excited to participate in a case study on electronic health record (EHR) evaluation and implementation by the LeadingAge Center for Aging Services Techonoliges (CAST). The goal is to demonstrate to providers of long-term and post-acute care the benefit of implementing an EHR. LINTECH will hold a session, Upgrading an Existing EHR, to discuss the case study, led by Monroe Community Hospital (MCH). MCH will discuss how LINTECH's COMET Point-of-Care program has improved workflow, productivity and the quality and accuracy of real-time documentation. The presentation will include facts about MCH's installation of COMET and how it has strengthened the documentation process in the hospital. Stop by the CAST booth to see the results!

When: October 22, 2012, 12:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.

Where: CAST booth; LeadingAge Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado

Register here if you would like to attend!

Check out LINTECH's New COMET Smartphone App!

Now is a great time to check out LINTECH's new COMET Mobile Rehab Application. This web app can run on any smartphone, as well as on the Apple iPod Touch and Samsung Galaxy Player. The COMET Mobile Rehab App can be used by your facility's therapists during client sessions to easily log start and end times. The Mobile Rehab App is an easy, accurate and reliable way of recording important therapy data. Click here to learn more!

Looking for a comprehensive Clinical/EMR solution?

COMET's Clinical/EMR Suite covers every aspect of charting and documenting patient care. It contains excellent enterprise tracking and managing for assessing, planning, retrieving and reporting. Click here to learn more details on this revolutionary product and to schedule a demo!

LINTECH networks with LTC Leaders at AHCA/NCAL Expo.

The LINTECH team had a fun time networking with LTC leaders at the American Health Care Association (AHCA)/National Center for Assisted Living (NCAL) Annual Convention & Expo in Tampa yesterday. We made great connections and look forward to these new and continued relationships! Visit us at lintechsoftware.com to set up a demo to see how your company can benefit from our software!

LINTECH is at AHCA/NCAL

The LINTECH team is wrapping up today at AHCA/NCAL Annual Convention & Expo in Tampa, Florida,  Come see us at booth #1437 from 11:30 am - 2:30p.  Click here to see where we are located in the exhibit hall.

LINTECH Giving Away $100 Barnes & Noble Gift Card at AHCA/NCAL

Visit LINTECH at booth 1437 at the AHCA/NCAL Expo and register to win $100 to Barnes & Noble. #LTCTampa

LINTECH to Attend AHCA/NCAL Expo.

The LINTECH team is heading to the American Health Care Association (AHCA)/National Center for Assisted Living (NCAL) Annual Convention & Expo in Tampa, Florida, Oct. 7-10. This event, for leading long-term and post-acute care professionals, will host CEOs, CFOs, COOs, directors of nursing, developmental disabilities residential services providers, assisted living staff and other distinguished leaders within the industry. Space shuttle commander Mark Kelly will be a Keynote Speaker. Come see us at booth #1437! 

Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program

LINTECH's software solutions are ready to assist LTC providers meet the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP) challenge with the COMET Clinical/EMR Suite. As of October 1st, 2012 Medicare will recover payments from hospitals for unnecessary readmissions within 30 days of patient discharge. 

Designed to lower the total Medicare costs, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) encourages hospitals to enact better follow-up and other procedures that reduce preventable readmissions among Medicare patients. The first three diagnoses include Acute Myocardial Infarction, Pneumonia and Congestive Heart Failure. 

Acute care providers will look to their community-based "partners" to help ensure discharged patients are receiving the proper clinical follow-up and care to avoid unnecessary rehospitalization. Click here to learn how LINTECH can assist your organization.