SCI Solutions Launches Provider Network Manager?

Proven Approach Increases Patient Referrals, Reduces Network Leakage and Strengthens Provider Affiliations Health Systems Achieve Greater Visibility and Control Across Physician and Post-Acute Networks

Health reform shifts are placing health system revenue streams in critical condition, requiring new physician alignment strategies to achieve growth. SCI Solutions, the healthcare industry's largest referral management and network scheduling platform, today announced Provider Network Manager TM, a technology platform and service for health systems to create better managed affiliations with independent and employed providers, curtail revenue leakage, grow outpatient volume and improve clinical services utilization.

As the healthcare industry navigates traditional and new reimbursement models stemming from quality of care and productivity measures, SCI gives provider networks a single platform that supports fee-for-service and risk-based reimbursement scenarios, simultaneously. The cloud-based solution is unique in that it extends beyond hospital and health system IT environments, while complementing current strategies, providing a platform and managed service for better understanding and capitalizing on physician relationships. Provider Network Manager ensures revenue opportunities remain within dedicated networks of independent and employed physicians, and that care service transitions are optimally coordinated for patients and providers, improving clinical outcomes while controlling costs.

"As health systems migrate to more risk-based reimbursement models, their priorities have shifted to growing high-margin outpatient volumes, improving utilization management and coordinating patient transitions between care settings," said Joel French, CEO of SCI Solutions. "Provider Network Manager gives health systems an easy way to realize economic value from their trading partner relationships by virtually integrating and servicing demand from independent and employed providers as well as transfers from community hospital, all while complementing existing information technology strategies and investments."

Provider Network Manager integrates SCI's award winning applications into a unique cloud-based service to deliver closed-loop referral and order management, mobile results, patient notifications and performance analytics tools. The managed service includes professional services for implementation, integration, physician onboarding, training and value realization monitoring to enable physician office adoption and compliant utilization.

About SCI Solutions

SCI Solutions operates a software-as-a-service network for approximately 600 hospitals, diagnostic imaging centers, physician groups and post-acute organizations. Provider networks and risk-bearing organizations utilize SCI's platform to coordinate patient care transitions, schedule patients and other resources, automate referrals, orders, results, alerts, reduce network leakage and comply with reimbursement, regulatory and clinical appropriateness guidelines. An integrated and easy-to-use business analytics toolset identifies opportunities and monitors performance. SCI's platform, accessible across mobile, web and desktop devices, uses workflow enriched tools to orchestrate patient care across service areas regardless of originating or destination systems. SCI's network and provider network management offerings remain the most ubiquitous referral management, care coordination and network scheduling platforms in the health industry. For more information, visit scisolutions.com.

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