Expert Abstraction Services

From the initial implementation Rapid Care’s trained abstractors are your resource for abstraction, feedback and education. In essence, we partner with you to become an off-site member of your team, completing your concurrent or retrospective abstraction in a timely and effective manner. Your dedicated account representative is available to you any time to discuss any aspect of your abstraction program and help you achieve your goals.

Our unique workflow is proven to reduce costs, increase quality reporting, educate staff, and provide an efficient operational workflow so you can re-deploy valuable staffing resources to increase reimbursements, and to focus more on improving the quality of care provided at your facility.

Clinical Data Registries

Clinical registries are critical to healthcare reform, as many providers are experiencing, it is the direct path to population health management and lower costs. However abstracting registries are often complex, not supported by current technologies, and are time consuming for your already stretched out resources. Rapid Care has the proven processes, the leadership and certified resources to empower your providers to excel in their pay for performance programs. We assist in base-lining and benchmarking your current quality metrics, in addition to assisting you to continuously monitor and improve them. Our quick set-up process means we can be up and running in less than a week.

• Zero Degrees of Separation with the Abstractor
• Real-time Results
• History of Accuracy and Quality Delivery
• Trained & Certified Staff

WE CAN HELP YOU ABSTRACT:

• Inpatient
• Outpatient
• Hospital-Based Inpatient Psychiatric Services (HBIPS)
• American College of Cardiology (ACC)
• American Heart Association/Get with the Guidelines (AHA/GWTG)
• GWTG-AFIB
• GWTG-Stroke
• GWTG-Resuscitation
• GWTG-Heart Failure
• National Cardiovascular Data Registry (NCDR)
• NCDR-Action
• NCDR-Cath
• NCDR-ICD
• NCDR-Impact
• NCDR-PINNACLE
• NCDR-PVI
• NCDR-TVT
• Healthcare Effectiveness Data Information Set (HEDIS)
• Local and National Cancer Registries
• Local and National Trauma Registries
• National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN)-infection prevention
• National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (NSQIP)
• NSQIP-Adult
• NSQIP-Bariatrics
• Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS)
• Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS)
• STS-Adult Cardiac Surgery
• STS-General Thoracic Surgery
• STS-Congenital Heart Surgery
• Surgical Clinical Outcomes Assessment Program (SCOAP)
• Vermont Oxford Network (VON)
• Vascular Quality Initiative (VQI)

Abstraction Services

At Rapid Care we understand that documenting and improving your patient’s quality of care is a crucial aspect of your quality improvement initiatives. We offer a cost-effective alternative to in-house abstraction which allows you to reallocate your resources, and utilize enhanced abstraction data, which will lower your department’s operating costs all while maintaining control of the abstraction process.

OUR PROCESS

From the initial implementation Rapid Care’s trained abstractors are your resource for abstraction, feedback and education. In essence, we partner with you to become an off-site member of your team, completing your concurrent or retrospective abstraction in a timely and effective manner. Your dedicated account representative is available to you any time to discuss any aspect of your abstraction program and help you achieve your goals.

This alternative workflow is proven to reduce costs, increase quality reporting, educate staff, and provide an efficient operational workflow so you can re-deploy valuable staffing resources to increase reimbursements, and to focus more on improving the quality of care provided at your facility.

WHAT YOU’LL GET

Rapid Care’s thorough knowledge and in-depth experience in health record documentation puts us in a prime position to provide outsourcing services to support a healthcare organization’s critical need for accurate and cost effective core measure abstraction.

All of our prices/chart include:

• No set up or account maintenance fees
• Customized, cost-effective outsourcing services
• Consistent, personalized account manager/abstractor to ensure reliable, & accurate data submissions
• Credentialed, experienced RN’s with at least two years of experience
• In-depth knowledge of CMS/TJC core measures specifications
• Proven track record of success in delivering core measure services
• Stays abreast of upcoming regulatory changes and communicates changes to clients in an easy-to-understand format

CUSTOM APPROACH; PROVEN METHOD

What sets us apart from other vendors is that we approach abstraction not just as an outsourcing vendor, but as a partner and educator. Our staff has worked in hospitals and has the knowledge and expertise to ensure data is abstracted according to CMS/TJC specifications. Our dedication to building lasting relationships is best shown through our abstractors who go the extra mile to ensure that knowledge is being transferred from our team to yours.

The approach that we take to abstraction is to not only develop a customized workflow solution for you, but to help make you and your department more efficient by freeing up valuable resources to work on other projects.

Compliance with and accurate reporting of core measures are key components to:

• Improving your quality of care
• Maintaining the reputation you deserve
• Securing the reimbursement your organization earns

CERTIFIED ABSTRACTORS

Working with core measures since its inception, our knowledge and experience helps qualify us as experts in the field. We only hire experienced, credentialed abstractors with a minimum of five years experience. Our abstracting staff is credentialed at various levels with a minimum of one of the following credentials:

• AHIMA Credentials (RHIA or RHIT)
• Certified Professional in Healthcare Quality (CPHQ)
• Master’s Degree in Nursing (MSN)
• Certified Coding Associate/Certified Coding Specialist (CCA/CCS)
• Bachelor’s Degree in Healthcare-related field and/or Nursing