EMR + Improved Business + Quality Care = Improved Outcomes in 2014

Recently, Long Term and Post-Acute Care (LTPAC) providers reported in Long-Term Living’s annual readership survey that 2013 has been the year of why technology matters to business AND the delivery of quality care.  56% of respondents reported they already use an Electronic Medical Record (EMR) solution and an additional 27% are planning for installation in the next year.

(Source: Long-Term Living, September 2013)

Unfortunately, almost half of respondents still report issues with staff resistance and connectivity pertaining to their technology implementation initiative, underscoring the need to have a solution that is highly configurable and flexible to meet clinical AND business needs.

If your organization is currently evaluating an EMR software solution, now is the time to partner with a vendor that has an integrated and comprehensive solution. The right solution should help to raise your staff's quality of care and productivity while lowering your facility's operating costs and errors.  LINTECH’s COMET™ is definitely such a solution.

Get the Best Value for Your Health Information Technology (HIT) Needs
The key is having a fully-integrated solution with applications that are truly flexible and configurable to meet the growing clinical, financial and regulatory demands for LTPAC providers.

LINTECH’s COMET™ offers a fully-integrated system which not only gathers data and presents it to you like many other LTPAC HIT systems, but actually turns dispersed data items into cohesive and meaningful information allowing for analysis, conclusions and decisions, and, in many cases, transforms into actionable items which already activate necessary processes.  LINTECH’s COMET™ fully-integrated system is comprised of the following software suites:

• Resident Information & Census (ADT) Suite
• Resident/Patient Accounts Suite
• EMR/Clinical Suite 
• Financial & Administrative Services Suite

Contact us to arrange for a demo and discuss the benefits of implementing a solution that offers the best value for your IT needs.

The 2013 AHCA/NCAL Annual Convention & Expo

During the 2013 AHCA/NCAL 64th Annual Convention & Expo to beheld at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, Arizona (October 6th-9th), the LINTECH team will be there for the event’s Expo (October 7th-8th). If you or a member of your organization is attending, don't forget to visit LINTECH’s Booth #940 to discuss our latest solutions and how we can help you.


If you would like to schedule a personal meeting with a LINTECH expert during the conference, please contact us.

LTPAC Financial & Administrative Solutions

Your partner in LTPAC documentation and management should offer a suite of integrated tools to collect, manage and store important information, but most importantly to improve efficiency.

Implementing a software solution, like LINTECH’s COMET™, gives LTPAC providers tools for internal and external reporting. Users have immediate access to complete and accurate financial and managerial reports and the ability to make the right decision at the right time.

COMET takes accounting and administration to new heights by meeting needs at every level (department and facility) and consolidating information into a single enterprise-wide setting.

LINTECH’s COMET™ Financial & Administrative Services Suite delivers the following:

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·       Enhances global business visibility

·       Provides actionable insights for improved business decisions

·       Immediate access to financial and operational information

·       Eliminates manual record searches

·       Streamlines business processes

·       Improves accountability, productivity and profitability

Contact us today or schedule a demo to learn more.

Your EMR/Clinical Partner

LTPAC providers are realizing the benefits of implementing EMRs. These providers now play a key role in achieving improved communications and transitions of care, helping organizations facing readmission penalties.

COMET™ gathers data and stores information for services performed from every aspect of charting and documenting patient care. This allows providers to quickly analyze and draw conclusions resulting in better-informed decisions and, in many cases, transforms data into actionable items, activating necessary processes.

LINTECH’s COMET™ delivers a comprehensive solution for management of electronic medical records:

• Provides accurate, consistent and secure information, from referral to discharge and follow-up
• Seamless, real-time data sharing across all disciplines
• Empowers clinicians to optimize patient care and workflow
• Fully integrates with the billing, financial and administrative applications

Utilizing EMR software that accounts for important patient information allows LTPAC providers to increase continuity of care, establish referral partnerships and reduce costs.

Our LTPAC software solutions are ready to work for you, so contact us today at (877) 4-LINTEC or schedule a demo to learn more.

LTPAC Solutions to Increase Profitability

LINTECH strives to be at the forefront of technology and our LTPAC software system, LINTECH’s COMET™, combines clinical and financial applications into a single fully-integrated and seamless solution. Inside COMET, the Resident/Patient Account Suite works to help you manage charge capture, long-term care billing, collections and resident trust funds.

Our applications help LTPAC providers ensure proper documentation and realize maximum reimbursement for all services provided.

LINTECH’s COMET™ Resident/Patient Accounts Suite offers a complete solution for revenue cycle management:

•           Comprehensive and powerful Revenue Cycle Management

•           Increases profitability with minimal staff effort

•           Automated and accurate charge management

•           Industry leading contract and claim management

•           Accurate revenue and income projections

•           Improves cash flow and collections

•           Compliant with all regulations

According to sources, “A study found 60% of medication errors occur during times of transition.” Through our applications, organizations have a reliable source for ensuring documentation and tracking payment and this also gives staff more time to focus on patients.

Learn how LINTECH’s COMET software system can simplify the management of your clinical, financial and administrative records. Contact us today at (877) 4-LINTEC or schedule a demo to learn more.

LTPAC Providers: Easily Track your Resident Information

One of the many benefits to partnering up with LINTECH is having a robust suite of information about your residents.

LINTECH’s COMET™ Resident Information & Census (ADT) Suite collects and tracks critical information about your residents:

Pre-admission: Our module enables you to gather information on a resident before they are admitted to your facility. This advanced information allows you to pre-assign a room or prepare for arrival ahead of time.

Resident information: Increase your quality of patient care by treating each resident as their own person rather than just another number. You can gather and store demographic, biographic, social, financial, clinical information on each patient and even track personal items, like which residents like to read and how that person prefers their cereal.

Census: Access real-time information about residents and transfer room and board charges to the billing system. This saves your staff a lot of work and can even avoid unnecessary expenses.

Contact us today at (877) 4-LINTEC or schedule a demo to learn more.

LINTECH is your LTPAC Software Solution

Because we are fully committed to providing long-term and post-acute care (LTPAC) organizations with the best value for their IT needs, through integrated and comprehensive software-based solutions and related services that will allow them to provide better quality-of-care in a cost-effective manner.

We achieve this by true breadth and depth of our robust applications, which are truly flexible and configurable so they can adeptly respond to your specific needs, all enhanced by true partnership through our superb support and excellent customer service.

LINTECH COMET™ combines four comprehensive suites, which work together to deliver a complete information management system for LTPAC.

Resident Information & Census (ADT) Suite – allows you to gather advanced and detailed information your residents, while making sure that room and board charges flow to the billing system.

COMET™ Resident/Patient Accounts Suite – the most efficient, effective and powerful LTPAC software tool for your facility's revenue cycle management.

COMET™ EMR/Clinical Suite – your facility's totally electronic LTPAC solution for every aspect of charting and documenting patient care: tracking assessing, planning, retrieving, reporting and, finally, managing the residents electronic medical record.

COMET™ 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 each and every level.

Our COMET™ system not only gathers data and presents it to you like many other LTPAC HIT systems, but it actually turns dispersed data items into cohesive and meaningful information allowing for analysis, conclusions and decisions, and – in many cases – transforms into actionable items which already activate necessary processes.

Oh, and did we already say that LINTECH offers the best value for your IT needs? We have no problem saying it again – because that’s a fact.

Reach the End of the HIT Roadmap with LINTECH

Navigating Health Information Technology (HIT) has become increasingly important for companies in the LTPAC sector since last year’s release of the “Roadmap for Health IT in Long-Term and Post-Acute Care (LTPAC)” identifying five areas providers should focus on.

The five priority areas for 2012-2014 included:

1.     Care Coordination

2.     Quality

3.     Business Imperative

4.     Consumer-Centered

5.     Workforce Acceleration

Aside from the release of the roadmap, Medicare requirements have also pushed organizations to focus on similar important areas. Leveraging technology to accomplish higher quality care, underscore accountability and deliver overall efficiency is of utmost importance.

According to an article by LTPAC HIT, the next step after publication of the 2012-2014 roadmap was to, “Invest in emerging technologies, business models and workforce skill sets that support significant improvements in workflow automation, decision support, HIE, user productivity and consumer engagement.”

If your organization hasn’t already, now is the time to invest in a LTPAC partner and LINTECH is prepared to assist you. LINTECH’s COMET™ fully-integrated software solutions improves care coordination and quality by providing a complete suite of information detailing patient profiles with accurate, updated data. Billing and audit trails are driven by the system creating a robust set of reporting data and tools to monitor the overall business model, meeting the business imperative focus. With LINTECH’s COMET, a consumer-centered organization is achievable. Our system streamlines the business process, freeing staff and allowing more time for customer interaction. Ultimately, workforce acceleration exists upon implementation of LINTECH’s COMET through our new, innovative, LTPAC technology, which works to improve overall business processes.

Learn more about our fully automated LTPAC solution or schedule a demo.

LINTECH Participates in LeadingAge CAST EHR White Paper

LeadingAge Center for Aging Services Technologies (CAST) recently announced the release of whitepaper, EHR For Long-Term and Post-Acute Care. A Primer for Planning and Vendor Selection. LINTECH’s Chief Software Architect, Doron Gutkind was proud to participate as a member of the EHR Workgroup, along with other HIT leaders. Also, LINTECH is pleased to be one of the EHR vendors participating in the 2013 CAST EHR Selection Matrix.

The purpose of this paper is to aid LeadingAge members, CAST members and other aging services organizations in choosing an Electronic Health Record (EHR) system that fits the needs of the organization, its providers and consumers/patients/clients. This paper builds upon these two excellent toolkits by summarizing the important steps a provider should take.

The selection matrix focuses on clinical systems that are offered by and aims to show providers how EHR’s impact clinical outcomes and reimbursement. LINTECH's COMET Point of Care – Clinical/EMR program is highlighted in the matrix and offers automated solutions to improve workflow, productivity and the quality and accuracy of real-time documentation. Click here to view the whitepaper.

The online selection matrix tool is already available!

Continuity of Care begins with the Electronic Medical Record

A recent report from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) shows Electronic Health Record (EHR) implementation across hospitals has exceeded government expectations. DHHS recently announced that it “has met and exceeded its goal for 50 percent of doctor offices and 80 percent of eligible hospitals to have EHRs by the end of 2013.” 

EHRs contain information from all the clinicians involved in a patient’s care and all authorized clinicians involved in a patient’s care can access the information to provide care to that patient. EHRs follow patients to each care setting and help ensure continuity of care delivery. Electronic Medical Records (EMRs), a vital component of a patient’s entire EHR, contain notes and information collected by and for the clinicians in that office, clinic, or hospital and are mostly used by providers for diagnosis and treatment. 

EMRs give providers an enhanced ability to track data over time, monitor health status and improve health care quality, therefore, they have become more valuable than paper records. Electronic sharing of patient records ensures accuracy in documentation, reduces duplicative tests, allows for better coordination of care, improves operational efficiency and ultimately helps to reduce hospital readmissions.

So what is on the horizon for the LTPAC provider?

As more hospitals and health professionals begin to rely on EHRs, providers will have an increased need to implement their own EMR systems in order to “connect” with the patient’s overall EHR throughout the transition of care.

While LTPAC providers are currently excluded from the Medicare incentives, EMR and EHR adoption has become critical to the broader health care improvement efforts that have started as a result of the Affordable Care Act.
Read about the 2012-2014 Roadmap for HIT in LTPAC and priority areas for action.

Why LTPAC providers are turning to LINTECH

LINTECH’s COMET provides a comprehensive EMR solution which is fully-integrated with LINTECH’s COMET resident accounts and financial & administrative solutions , designed specifically for LTPAC. This comprehensive software system, originally built on an acute care platform, provides maximum interoperability for providers to interface with hospitals and other healthcare professionals allowing for improved transitions of care.

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.

To read more about how your facility can benefit from LINTECH’s fully-integrated LTPAC software solutions, visit www.LINTECHsoftware.com or schedule a demo.

The 2013 LTPAC HIT Summit

The annual 2013 AHIMA Long-Term and Post-Acute Care (LTPAC) Health IT Summit took place on June 17-18 in Baltimore. During the Summit, the LINTECH team connected with HIT leaders, policy makers, federal and state grantees, providers, vendors, professionals and standards development organizations, all focused on advancing policies and initiatives in alignment with the national health care strategy.

This year’s two-day Summit focused on strategies to bridge the gap between LTPAC providers and those incentivized to adopt EHR technology and the role of technology in reducing hospital readmissions. The summit also covered topics to advance policies and initiatives regarding the LTPAC Health IT Roadmap adopted in 2012.

To learn more about the initiatives discussed or how LINTECH can assist your organization, contact us.

The LINTECH team is at AHIMA's 2013 Long-Term and Post-Acute Care Health IT Summit in Baltimore

The LINTECH team is pleased to be networking with industry leaders during AHIMA's 2013 Long-Term and Post-Acute Care Health IT Summit in Baltimore, MD, June 17-18th.

Stop by BOOTH #8 to discuss your information system and business solutions goals or contact us to request a meeting during the Summit.

About the Summit: HIT leaders, policy makers, federal and state grantees, providers, vendors, professionals and standards development organizations are convening to discuss the advancement of policies and initiatives in alignment with the national health care strategy. The two- day Summit provides thought-provoking, interactive sessions to advance priorities, showcase real world implementation successes, and put the spotlight on certified LTPAC technologies. Summit attendees network with decision-makers and influencers and provide critical insights to move forward the LTPAC Health IT Road Map.

Mitigate Sequestration Cuts with Technology

As you are aware, the Sequestration Transparency Act of 2012 will go into effect on April 1st and includes a 2% reduction to Medicare reimbursements

As LTPAC providers struggle to absorb further reductions in Medicare funding,finding alternative ways to lower cost while continuing to deliver quality care will be vital. Technology plays an important role in ensuring cost efficiencies and the delivery of quality care. EMR technology solutions for LTPAC provide the opportunity to increase quality of care and productivity while decreasing a facility’s operating costs and reporting errors. Fully integrated EMR solutions make it possible for facilities to streamline business processes and care delivery in a cost effective way and potentially mitigate any negative impact from further Medicare cuts.

LINTECH is here to assist LTPAC providers and ensure they are operating most efficiently. LINTECH’s COMETTM software solution is designed to benefit virtually every aspect of a facility, allowing applications to share, analyze and continually update data from department to department. The Resident/Patient Accounts Suite can help improve your facility's cash flow while allowing your staff to be more productive. The COMET billing application streamlines the billing processes and helps maximize reimbursements. The application is so advanced it runs automatically, greatly improving the accuracy of claims by eliminating the need for human intervention. Users also enjoy full audit trails for every transaction as well as detailed claim information. The ancillary charge application integrates with the clinical modules and creates charges automatically based on clinician documentation that a service has been provided. This allows for greater quality care while keeping cost low. To read more about how your facility can benefit from a fully automated LTPAC solution, visit www.LINTECHsoftware.com or schedule a demo.

No Need to Worry About RAC Audits with COMET™

The Tax Relief and Health Care Act of 2006 made the Medicare Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) program, which identifies improper Medicare payments, permanent. RACs are paid on a contingency fee basis and the auditors receive a percentage of the improper overpayments and underpayments they collect from providers. Auditors use software programs to identify payment errors such as duplicate payments, fiscal intermediaries’ mistakes, medical necessity and coding.

LINTECH designed COMET™ to prevent and eradicate errors – all by having every possible data element from our EMR flow into our MDS Application. The errors that cause incorrect Medicare payments cannot happen with COMET™, because data entered into our applications flows automatically into the right fields, including the applicable fields in our Billing Application. Because there is no human intervention in the process, COMET™ users do not have to worry about failing RAC audits.

To learn more about our COMET™ system, click here.

A New Year's Resolution: Operational Efficiency

As you know by now, President Obama signed the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 into law to stave off the fiscal cliff. Although the legislation delays the Medicare cuts to physicians, it makes significant changes to hospitals. Even though the cuts do not directly impact Long Term and Post-Acute Care (LTPAC), providers will continue to focus on ensuring operational efficiency in order to achieve targeted quality outcomes and financial goals.

Now that 2013 is in full swing, many LTPAC providers are setting cost-effective operational resolutions. The possibilities of increasing reimbursement, enhancing overall efficiency and saving costs through LINTECH’s COMET™ could significantly support facilities in their efforts to streamline care delivery.

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.