- Shared Decision Making

• ePRISM^® can help improve patient satisfaction. Its award–nominated informed consent document facilitates physician/patient interaction and dialogue. Written at the eighth–grade level for improved understanding, the document can be customized to fit a hospital’s legal/medical requirements and translated into the patient’s language. With its embedded risk profiles, the consent form can also function as a clinician’s tool to facilitate evidence–based discussion of treatment options, making patients feel more in control and a part of their care and treatment decisions.

- Cost–of–Care Reduction

• By identifying and applying the optional level of care using ePRISM^®, caregivers can reduce the overall cost of care for a specific patient by:

  • Avoiding expensive anti–coagulants, devices or drug therapies in patients shown scientifically to receive no benefit from those applications
  • Avoiding expensive testing and monitoring for patients who carry a low risk of complication
  • Optimizing the monitoring/testing of patients at greater risk of complications
  • Reducing complications and post–procedure re–admissions, thus lowering the cost of care for that patient (patients developing a bleed post–PCI cost the hospital, on average, $7,000 more)
  • Reducing complications and post-procedure readmissions, thus lowering the cost of care for that patient (patients developing a bleed post-PCI cost the hospital, on average, $7,000 more).

• HOS solutions also help justify, as well as optimize a hospital's financial performance, protecting against recovery by RAC audits and denials:

  • ePRISM^® helps justify the admission of patients exhibiting the "medical predictability of something adverse happening," a CMS criteria
  • ePRISM^® supplies future auditors with information needed to justify in–patient reimbursements and protect the millions of dollars earned by the hospital

- Better Outcomes

• By transforming evidence gathered for a population into an individualized decision–making tool for clinicians and their patients, ePRISM^® can lead to:

  • Reduced complications, such as major bleeds
  • Reduced length of stay
  • Reduced re–admissions
  • A better overall patient experience
  • More precise prediction of noncompliance for better follow–up care