Powered by Epic, Acumen 2.0 is Designed for Nephrology Practices

 

Powered by Epic and focusing on nephrology-focused user interfaces and features, Acumen 2.0 is designed to help healthcare organizations improve the patient experience and achieve greater efficiencies. The product offers a single platform that provides seamless, comprehensive care for patients across the continuum of care, including acute, ambulatory, and outpatient. Its advanced clinical workflows, secure, scalable architecture, and patient-centered design provide users with a powerful, consistent user experience.

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Powered by Epic, Acumen 2.0 offers best-in-class EHR solutions to nephrologists. The solution is designed to meet the needs of nephrology practices by providing enhanced functionality and improved access to patient data.

It also provides patients with better healthcare outcomes. The technology empowers physicians to deliver a comprehensive and personalized care experience.

The new platform provides an easy-to-use, nephrology-specific patient portal that enables direct communication between providers and patients. It includes features previously unavailable to Acumen patient portal users. It also includes custom reports for CKD patients management.

Acumen 2.0 is also designed to improve interoperability and scale. This means that providers can communicate and exchange information with other members of the Epic community, and with hospitals. It also improves access to patient information by creating an open and collaborative environment.

Another important feature is the Care Everywhere network. This allows providers to easily include patient information on claims. This is particularly important for advanced payment models.

Nephrology-focused user interfaces and features

Touted as the king of the pack by virtue of their large number of users, Epic and its ilk have an eye on the patient care front. The eponymous has a large base of medical professionals to chum with and a large stake in the ambulatory triumphere. The company boasts a plethora of ambulatory triumpheres in the form of physicians and allied health care providers. The triumpheres can be found in many an outlying locale. The company also happens to be one of the few companies that is capable of coordinating with the likes of one of their competitors. They have a good foot in the door and a well defined strategy for the future. Keeping track of your medical staff is a daunting task but not unnerving if you have the right tools in the right place.

Fresenius Medical Care North America partnership

Earlier this year, Fresenius Medical Care - North America announced a groundbreaking partnership with Livongo Health. The company will leverage the Livongo platform to help chronic kidney disease patients get the best possible treatment at the best possible time.

This new partnership will enable Fresenius to better deliver targeted care coordination services, including care management for multiple chronic conditions, to more than 11,000 kidney patients. It will also enable Fresenius to expand into the $120 billion chronic kidney disease stage three to five market. The new company will operate under the InterWell Health brand.

The partnership focuses on early detection of CKD, which will increase the likelihood of optimal dialysis starts and, ultimately, reduce hospitalizations. It also aims to improve quality of life for patients with kidney diseases.

The partnership will be funded through available cash and additional debt financing. The deal is expected to close in the second half of 2022.

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Customer support

Using Acumen 2.0 and the MyChart portal, patients can communicate directly with their physician and nurses. This helps them schedule appointments and view their medical record. The practice also has access to information from Epic's Care Everywhere network, allowing RCA to import data from other Epic providers.

The practice has seen a significant increase in coding efficiency. It has also noticed that patients have a more accurate view of their health. In addition, the practice is well-positioned to address the needs of its patients during the transition to value-based care.

The team continues to make improvements to the product as time goes by. This includes the addition of nephrology-specific workflow tools. Among these are the SmartSets, which helped drive consistency and best practice in nephrology.

The Acumen team has worked closely with the Epic team to make the product more nephrology-specific. Moreover, the company has optimized the EHR user interface for nephrology. Lastly, Acumen has created a registry that allows patients to be enrolled based on diagnosis and clinical parameters.