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GuidingCareTM Solution

GuidingCareTM is a user-friendly, interactive suite of web-based health management tools to help manage and address health concerns among individuals either at risk for or suffering from a broad range of physical health, behavioral health and social support needs. GuidingCare is a perfect match for a wide range of organizations that have a mission and mandate to help lead their constituents and members to better health. These include

• Health Plans, TPAs and their health management staff
• Physicians and their office staff
• Hospitals and their discharge planning and case management staff
• Community Clinics and their clinic staff

Modules within GuidingCare

Tools within the GuidingCare Suite can be purchased as a comprehensive integrated package or can be obtained as stand-alone options, customized to client needs and budget. Distinct and discrete tools within this suite are:

• Electronic Web-Based Portals for Nurses, Physicians and Patients – Using the power of the Internet, care managers, physicians, other health providers and patients have distinct and customized web portals to access and track important health information across time and across multiple care providers. Sections in the care record include:
  • Preventive Screening Services and Immunizations
  • Service Utilization Profiles – Inpatient, Outpatient, and Emergency Room Services
  • Medication History
  • Care Management Planning, Education, Advice and Notes History
  • Social and Community Support Needs Assessment

• GuidingSignsTM Engine - Risk Stratification and Predictive Modeling Engine – Uses historic data and risk assessment tools to identify and categorize patients based on their propensity for poor health outcomes and high costs in the future. Identifies signs of health concerns and offers evidence-based opportunities for improvement using an exhaustive set of clinical care, behavioral health and medication-related indicators. Provides a user-friendly, web-based interface to add additional indicators without complex programming and coding.

• DialogGuidantTM – This is a computerized decision support tool that allows users to customize educational content and prompts for health interventions so that automated scripts can be run based on types of diseases, levels of risk of the patients. Enables staff to tailor educational messages based on behavioral clues that are captured in the system through care interactions. This optimizes results of any interaction between care managers, physicians and patients.

  GuidingCare platform can be integrated with many commercially available medical devices (including Blood Pressure Monitors, Glucometers and Weight Scales) to collect health information automatically enabling enhanced monitoring capabilities while providing patients with a greater sense of control. Patient specific alerts can be generated allowing care givers to pro-actively respond to potentially alarming situations if left unattended.

  Benefits of GuidingCareTM?

  Innovative Health Management Tools: Tools such as DialogGuidantTM and GuidingSignsTM are all combined and integrated into one, comprehensive care management system. The system provides a measurable improvement in quality outcomes and ensures a return on investment for health outreach and care management efforts.

  Cost: GuidingCareTM provides high levels of sophistication and functionality at a lower cost in comparison to its competitors.

  Superior, Up-to-date, Clinical Content: Provides Superior clinical content that is updated frequently to reflect changing clinical guidelines and practices, using a team of full time clinical content experts and researchers consisting of physicians and nurses.

  Intuitive, Easy-to-Navigate Web-Based System: Provides user-friendly web-based portals customized based on the user type (Distinct modules available for nurse care managers, physicians, patients). Users have a single point of access to information obtained and compiled into an integrated record reducing the problems associated with the fragmentation of health care services.

  Get more information on GuidingCareTM?

  Live demonstrations of our health management solutions are available through web-conference or through in-person meetings. Contact us via phone at 703.707.8890 Extn:101 or via email at info@altruistahealth.com to schedule a demonstration or to obtain our competitive pricing.