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<FONT SIZE=4><B>Growth potential of integration of ck_CompCare with Protocol Engine.</B></FONT>
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The principal benefits of standardizing
on ck_CompCare are:
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<LI>Comprehensive and flexible billing system
that will meet current needs, will work efficiently, and can
be adapted to a wide range of negotiated agreements.
<LI>Multi-Clinic architecture. Designed
to be able to exchange data between data sets localized at specific
clinics.
<LI>Fully integrated scheduler with single
quick access to company, and personal information, and routing
slips which list exam schedule along with detailed instructions
tailored to client requirements.
<LI>Protocols can be tailored to clients,
insurance carriers, and specific visit reasons to help insure
that all details agreed upon with clients will be carried out.
<LI>A system optimized to your current needs
and designed with your projected growth in mind.
<LI>A development staff ready and willing
to work with you. You are a very important client to us. Having
our software work successfully for you is as important to our
future as it is to yours. Our goal is to ensure that the program
serves its primary role: a tool that improves staff efficiency,
enforces standards, monitors and helps improve quality, and facilitates
analysis so that you can make good decisions to improve productivity
and profitability.
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<FONT SIZE=4><B>Growth Potential through Integration with Protocol Engine</B></FONT>
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Through grants we have received from the
Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) we are creating a
working demonstration of our Protocol Engine to run in an internet
or intranet environment. As one facet of this demonstration we
will be modifying ck_CompCare to send messages to the Protocol
Engine whenever data is saved. The Protocol Engine will give
a local ck_CompCare application immediate connectivity with systems
throughout an organization without the presence of a high speed
wide area network.
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The Protocol Engine is a tool that will
improve on the protocol functionality that is already built into
ck_CompCare to provide health care staff members access to the
latest management rules and guidelines at the time of treatment.
It will run in the background, and will generally not interfere
with a user's normal tasks. However, when an application, such
as ck_CompCare, sends out notification that an event has taken
place, it sends a small packet of information through an internet
connection to a server describing the event that has taken place.
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The server compares the event with it rules and guidelines list
and either responds that no action is needed, or initiates a set
of actions that could involve:
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<LI>sending e-mail, faxes or some other
form of notification to specific individuals;
<LI>flashing messages or warnings on the
screen;
<LI>printing forms;
<LI>gathering data that has just been entered,
and transferring it to a centralized system, for reporting monitoring
or analysis; or
<LI>connecting the user's system to specific
internet sites for access to the latest technical information.
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Running in an internet environment gives
the protocol engine a great deal of power. Mail can be sent automatically
to anyone with an e-mail address. Information that needs to
be displayed can be accessed from any home page. Data from separate
clinics can be gathered and transferred, record by record as soon
as it is saved, so that at any point management has access to
the most current information. Data residing on other systems,
such as lab results, can be accessed and queried or downloaded.
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The potential for improving quality control, customer satisfaction,
and management monitoring, awareness, and access to current data
is enormous.
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The schematic illustrates the way in which
we feel that the Protocol Engine will be able to tie together
separate clinics with a centralized management system, and also
communicate directly with payors.
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On any individual's computer the Protocol
Engine will require no more than a normal web browser such as
Netscape or the Internet Explorer which will run under the Windows
operating system. The heart of the Protocol Engine will be the
software that that we will develop to run on a Web-server. We
will also modify ck_CompCare to send very small event messages
to the server though a normal internet link so that within no
more than a second or two, the message can be transferred and
the server can determine if a triggering event has occurred and
a prescribed set of actions now need to be followed. The Protocol
Engine will run on the same system as ck_CompCare, but in a different
window. Security of all data flowing in and out will be maintained.
Our development target for setting up and implementing the Protocol
Engine is in the third quarter of 1997.
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<FONT SIZE=4><B>Partnering Opportunity</B></FONT>
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Our goal for this grant will be to develop
and demonstrate a tool which will be very useful to multi-clinic
organizations, and very appealing to insurers and managed care
organizations. We are very interested in finding organizations
who wish to be partners in this development. We feel it is an
excellent and exciting opportunity for everyone involved to achieve
a significant competitive edge in quality of care, efficiency,
and cost reduction. <A HREF="form.htm" TARGET="mainview">Contact us</A>
for more information.
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