HealthTech Solutions Group announces new name and brand strategy – GAFFEY Healthcare.

Plano, TX and Pleasanton, CA Oct 31, 2013 – HealthTech Solutions Group (HTSG), a leading cloud-based revenue cycle management software business, has announced that it will operate under the new name, GAFFEY Healthcare, effective November 5, 2013. After the acquisition of GAFFEY in July of 2013 and the successful integration of GAFFEY’s products and services, the combined business offers a unique and comprehensive Revenue Cycle solution focused on utilizing technology to drive unprecedented financial results for healthcare providers.
On August 1, 2013, HealthTech Solutions Group announced its acquisition of GAFFEY, a pioneer in the eligibility and billing segments of the hospital revenue cycle software industry. The move was backed by HTSG’s private equity sponsor, Altaris Capital Partners, a New York-based private equity firm focused exclusively in the healthcare industry.
“The new company name – ‘GAFFEY Healthcare. Technology. Results. is a reflection of the successful unification of our respective staff and product suites as well as a reaffirmation of our mission – to drive positive financial results for our customers. We chose the GAFFEY Healthcare name due to their industry brand recognition as well as their strong reputation built over 26+ years in the business,” said Derek Morkel, CEO of GAFFEY Healthcare.

Precyse Announces Continued Penetration of its HIM Technology Platform

The industry’s only integrated, NLP-driven platform for inpatient and outpatient coding and CDI – precyseCode and precyseCDI
Wayne, PA and Alpharetta, GA Oct 28, 2013 — Precyse, has developed the industry’s only single, integrated platform enabling both inpatient and outpatient coding and CDI, supported by state of-art Natural Language Processing (NLP). Precyse technology is contracted in 21 hospitals, with more than half signing on in 2013. In the third quarter alone, eight new organizations have contracted for precyseCode™ and precyseCDI™. The Precyse implementation methodology developed by industry experts ensures these newly contracted organizations will be live well in advance of the 2014 deadline, joining the other organizations already utilizing the Precyse technology to great success.
Precyse clients have come to realize the value of a single, integrated application that enables concurrent review and streamlined throughput for the analysis of inpatient and outpatient encounters. As an example, one particular Precyse client has already seen a 50 percent increase in productivity with the use of precyseCode for Same Day Surgeries (SDS), and only expects this number to grow.
“There are several methods and technologies an organization can choose to help manage the change to ICD-10 and ever evolving healthcare reform,” said Linda Kloss, MA, RHIA, FAHIMA, president Kloss Strategic Advisors and former CEO of AHIMA. “However the more integrated your technology solutions and workflow, the more successful the technology will be. Precyse offers this solution.”

Cardinal Health invests in healthcare efficiency, providing funding to Intralign

Intralign continues to help providers optimize the cost and quality of surgical care
Phoenix, AZ Oct 28, 2013 – Intralign, a specialty healthcare services provider, today announced that Cardinal Health made an investment to contribute to the expansion of intra-operative management solutions for hospitals. A portfolio company of Altaris Capital Partners and Heritage Group, Intralign offers surgical assistance in combination with analytics and process design services to help providers optimize quality and cost of major joint replacement and other surgeries.
“It’s a tremendous privilege for an industry leader like Cardinal Health to support our vision for implementing sustainable change management solutions within hospitals and health systems to improve the cost-effectiveness of healthcare delivery,” said Rick Ferreira, president and CEO of Intralign. “Today, Intralign’s services focus on the intra-operative space – where more than 40 percent of the cost of the total episode of care is incurred. We help hospitals and clinicians understand cost drivers and help them gain control of the process.”
The value of Intralign lies in the unique combination of in-surgery support and resource management with analytics and service line process optimization. Through its intra-operative clinical support services, Intralign makes high-quality Surgical First Assistants (SFAs) available in the operating room, eliminating the need for hospitals to have SFAs on staff, reducing procedure time, and ensuring efficient use of resources before, during and after surgery. The benefit of intra-operative support is enhanced by Intralign’s analytics services, which enable the hospital to utilize internal and external data to gain a comprehensive and action-oriented understanding of resources usage, treatment quality, etc. The company also offers intelligent care design support to help providers enhance the flow of people and activities in the delivery of major joint replacement, so that ideal efficiencies and quality goals are realized.
“It’s important to us at Cardinal Health that we support the innovation coming from companies like Intralign in order to give providers actionable information, allowing them to address clinical, business and financial challenges in this new era of healthcare,” said Lisa Ashby, president of Medical Devices and Diagnostics at Cardinal Health.

Precyse Thought Leadership on Display at AHIMA 2013

Clients, colleagues and Advisory Council members present on an array of topics at the conference
Wayne, PA and Alpharetta, GA Oct 24, 2013 — Precyse, a leader in health information management (HIM) technologies and services, will share expertise during three separate educational sessions at the 85th Annual American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) Convention and Exhibit, October 26-30.
Kicking off the sessions is Lori Purcell, RHIA, CCS, Associate Director, ICD-10 and Educational Services at Precyse. Her presentation titled, “The Impact of ICD-10 on Ancillary Departments: Rely on the Principle of Specificity,” will explore the way ancillary departments can participate in a successful transition to ICD-10. It is critical these departments understand the process of coding and how documentation can ultimately impact the revenues of the facility. Participants will learn how to match the service (CPT code) with the diagnosis (ICD-10 codes). Purcell will also review common outpatient claim rejections and tackle problems with coding cheat sheets and documentation templates. This educational session will take place October 26, 4:15-5:15pm, during the Clinical Coding Community Meeting.
On Monday, October 28, Tom Ormondroyd, MBA, Vice President and General Manager, Precyse Learning Solutions, and Precyse University client Donielle Bailey, RHIA, ICD-10 Project Coordinator, UNC/Rex Health will present, “One Year Left: How to Prepare Your Documentation and Complete ICD-10 Education Before Time Runs Out.” With the implementation of ICD-10 less than a year away, this session will focus on how the transition will impact clinical documentation and what steps need to be taken to prepare. The presenters will outline best practices and insights on how to implement an ICD-10 education plan and how UNC/Rex Health is getting physician buy-in. Ormondroyd and Bailey’s presentation will take place 4:30-5:30pm.
Linda Kloss, MA, RHIA, FAHIMA, president Kloss Strategic Advisors and former CEO of AHIMA and Member of Precyse Advisory Council will be presenting with Karen J. Lawler, MPS, RHIA, CHPS, FABC, Director Health Information Management and Privacy Officer, Stamford Hospital. Their presentation titled, “Health Information Management in 2016: Guiding Principles and a Governance Framework for a Digital Age,” looks toward the future of HIM.
This presentation will represent the work of 30 top healthcare institutions in North America – working together toward the common goal of advancing effective HIM and governance. The group, called the HIM Innovation Community, began in 2011 to consider how health information management is changing and to share learning about how to facilitate positive change. Recently, the Community developed guiding principles for each component of the Information Management function.

Intralign awarded supplier contract by Novation to provide orthopedic care efficiency services

Agreement brings cost and quality improvement solutions to over 65,000 healthcare organizations.
Phoenix, AZ Oct 1, 2013 – Intralign, a specialty healthcare services provider, today announced it has been awarded a supplier contract with Novation, the industry’s largest health care supply chain expertise, analytics and contracting company for the more than 65,000 members of VHA Inc., UHC, Children’s Hospital Association and Provista, LLC. Intralign will offer intra-operative clinical support services backed by data-driven efficiency tools and care-centered design processes, enabling the members served by Novation to better control the economics and quality of major joint replacement as well as other surgical categories.
“We partner with suppliers that deliver excellent savings and value to the members we serve,” said Pete Allen, area senior vice president, sourcing operations, Novation. “Intralign is an organization that offers members care efficiency with a particular specialty in total joint replacement procedures, which are growing rapidly. Gaining control of the cost drivers in the intra-operative space is critically important to our members as they shift to emerging care delivery models and seek ways to improve the cost and quality of care.”
Intralign’s integrated suite of services includes intra-operative clinical support, which makes Surgical First Assistants (SFAs) available to the hospital, saving resources while ensuring the best quality support in the intra-operative process. SFAs are clinicians who have specialized training in surgery as well as appropriate license and certification to help with the procedure. Staffing models that increase involvement of mid-level qualified talent help optimize physician involvement, increase efficiency of care and can ultimately increase throughput. The benefit of intra-operative support is enhanced by Intralign’s analytics services, which monitor and collect data on key metrics in the operating room – such as implant utilization and cost to surgical and anesthesia time – to identify opportunities for improvement in care delivery. Finally, the company also offers intelligent care design support to help providers optimize the flow of people and activities in the operating room, so that ideal efficiencies and quality goals are realized.
“To be awarded a supplier contract with Novation is a significant confirmation of Intralign’s value proposition,” said Rick Ferreira, president and CEO of Intralign. “Our services are really resonating with providers because we offer a unique approach to achieving sustainable care efficiencies for the delivery of orthopedic and other types of surgery. Intralign can help them better understand how and where resources are being used, how to optimize those resources and, finally, how to enhance the management of specialized clinical labor to increase throughput.”

Sparta Systems and Veeva Systems to Deliver End-to-End Quality Solution

Integration of TrackWise® and Veeva Vault QualityDocs to Streamline Quality Management Processes and Documentation
Pleasanton, CA and Hamilton, NJ Oct 1, 2013 – Sparta Systems and Veeva Systems today announced plans to deliver a complete, fully integrated quality solution. The two companies will integrate Sparta’s market-leading enterprise quality management solution, TrackWise, with Veeva Vault QualityDocs, a cloud-based document management solution to manage controlled documents across the enterprise. Bringing together quality process and document management in a single, end-to-end solution will enable life sciences companies to strengthen compliance, improve efficiency, and lower costs.
“Sparta’s strategic relationship with Veeva is a significant milestone as quality-conscious organizations move to streamline mission-critical work processes,” said Eileen Martinson, CEO of Sparta Systems. “Product safety incidents are growing as a result of supplier quality issues. The integration of these products, complemented by our soon-to-be-released cloud-based supplier quality solution, will help ensure safety and efficiency across the enterprise and supplier network.”
“Partnering with Sparta, the market leader in enterprise quality management systems, we have the opportunity to deliver greater strategic value for our joint customers,” said Peter Gassner, CEO of Veeva Systems. “Through the integration of TrackWise and Veeva’s cloud-based regulated content management solution, life sciences companies and their suppliers can now manage quality processes and quality documents together, eliminating the limitations and compliance risks of traditional, disconnected systems.”
The integration between TrackWise and QualityDocs is currently planned for release to customers in the first half of 2014.