Allscripts Discharge Planning
Allscripts Discharge Planning (DP) enables hospitals to fully automate and streamline this process and connect automatically with the nation’s post-acute care community - cutting length of stay, while increasing throughput, reimbursement and staff efficiency. Interfaced with the hospital’s ADT system, the tool guides the case manager through the discharge planning process and then sends a detailed electronic referral to the relevant facilities in Allscripts’ proprietary database of 90,000 post-acute care providers. First replies typically are returned within minutes.
Offering a comprehensive set of features and benefits, Allscripts DP facilitates the discharge planning process.
- Automatically communicates user-selected patient data and referral information to any extended care provider (i.e., SNF, Rehab, Home Health, DME, Dialysis, etc.)
- Transfers discharge information to providers electronically and securely without the need for a fax machine
- Guides case managers to discharge Medicare patients on the optimal discharge day
- Alerts online extended-care providers via pager, e-mail, and/or fax when they receive a hospital referral and alerts care managers when on-line providers respond to a referral
- Assigns patients to a discharge planner by location, service, physician, patient type, financial class, or combination
- Provides tracking, reporting tools and cross-departmental collaboration to overturn denied reimbursements that do occur
- Allows creation of electronic copies of paper-based documents for inclusion with referrals
- Offers printable Discharge Summary reports to include in a patient’s chart
- Automates completion of required forms, such as home care or state required form for placement
- Creates discharge packets for patient and family members that include educational material such as summary of the provider, a map to the location and what to look for in nursing care
- Maintains communication audit trails and copies of all documents sent
- Receives laboratory results, medications, transcribed notes, history and physicals, and radiology results from clinical interfaces for inclusion directly into a referral
