Healthcare Administrative Partners, a Media, Pa.-based provider of revenue cycle management solutions, will be among Institute for Healthcare Improvement's storyboard presenters next month at an industry conference.
The company will present its submission, entitled "Process Improvement for Follow-up Radiology Report Recommendations of Lung Nodules," at the 2017 National Forum on Quality Improvement in Healthcare. As part of the presentation, HAP Chief Clinical Informatics Officer Sharon Taylor will talk about "the critical patient care gap that inspired the [company's lung nodule] solution, the development challenges overcome during beta testing with the physicians of Radiology Group of Abington [Pa.], and the quantifiable improvements in patient outcomes realized following live deployment," according to a news release. The conference is scheduled for Dec. 10-13 in Orlando, Fla.
Ms. Taylor said of the solution, "Across the healthcare system, patients with incidental lung nodule findings are too often falling through the cracks and not getting the follow-up screenings required for effective care. Our client, Dr. Philip Lim and his colleagues at RGA, recognized this issue as a true opportunity to benefit patients and advance the quality improvement goals at the core of the value-based care concept. Working closely with their team, HAP developed a custom application and business process for radiology practitioners that mines available data, identifies patients with incidental lung nodules in need of a follow-up, notifies them and their primary care physicians at condition-specific intervals, and measures process efficacy via executed screenings and captured patient condition status."