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Ventus

At Ventus, we address client needs and challenges with a strong focus on stability, seamless integration, and innovative solutions. By leveraging industry market insights, competitive data and client input, we make significant moves in product expansion and align our skill sets to ensure long-term client support. We are constantly refining our product narrative to best communicate our vision internally and externally all to build an enduring organization grounded in excellence, growth, and our core values. Our commitment to continuous improvement drives us to serve our clients better today than we did yesterday, making Ventus the ideal partner for your success and growth.

Revenue Cycle Solutions:

HealthQuest™

A hospital information system (HIS) that uses an IBM z Series computer system to provide large, complex healthcare organizations with an integrated suite of solutions for Patient Management, Patient Accounting and Health Information Management (HIM). At Altera Digital Health, we harness the leading-edge capabilities of IBM z Series computer systems to drive HealthQuest™ application performance and reliability. With this industry-leading infrastructure provided by IBM, we ensure robust and secure solutions that meet the evolving needs of our clients. Clients also have access to HealthQuest source code and can make their own software changes and upgrades.

STAR™

A Hospital Information System (HIS) that enables healthcare organizations to automate processes and procedures to manage daily financial and patient care services. STAR supports the demands of a single facility, multi facility and a large integrated delivery network leveraging a single integrated database running on Linux or Unix. Functionality includes an integrated suite of solutions: Patient Processing and Patient Accounting along with Health Information Management (HIM) and General Financials.

Ventus Contract Management

Ventus Compliance Advisor

Medicare compliance solution which automates medical necessity checking and code auditing compliance for outpatient services. Ventus Compliance Advisor can be used standalone or integrated with healthcare systems to perform medical necessity checking prior to services being provided. This promotes potential reduction of losses due to medical necessity write-offs and increases reimbursement opportunity for non-covered services. It may also be used to detect and flag potential billing errors prior to claims submission.

Enterprise Master Patient Index Solutions:

Ventus Passport

Ventus Passport is an Enterprise Master Person Index (EMPI) that links person-demographic data captured in multiple source systems across an organization. It leverages elite person-matching logic to reduce duplicate person records across the enterprise. Passport’s Person-matching logic uses phonetic technologies, address normalization, email and phone number validation, fuzzy logic, expert matching rules and threshold definitions that identify, reduce, and prevent duplicates. Ventus Passport serves as an agnostic solution to connect multiple EHR, Ambulatory, Physician, Registration, Scheduling and Revenue Cycle solutions.

Ventus Enterprise Person Identifier

Maintain our clients’ Enterprise Master Person Index (EMPI), assigning a unique identifier throughout the enterprise. The ePI data repositories store a person’s demographic information to ensure the latest patient demographic information is available across our clients’ multiple clinical and revenue cycle products. This product offers similar capabilities as our existing Ventus Passport solution. ePI is used by many of our Sunrise clients.

Ventus Community Identifier

Maintain our clients’ Enterprise Master Person Index (EMPI), assigning a unique identifier throughout the enterprise. The Ventus Community Identifier data repositories store a person’s demographic information to ensure the latest patient demographic information is available across our clients’ multiple clinical and revenue cycle products. This product offers similar capabilities as our existing Ventus Passport solution. Ventus Community Identifier is used by some of our dbMotion clients.

Surgical Suite:

Ventus Surgical Manager

Ventus Tissue Manager

Ventus Tissue Manager helps automate documentation and gives clinicians immediate access to implant records. With Ventus Tissue Manager, organizations can improve inventory management and facilitate compliance with Joint Commission, AORN, AATB and FDA regulations for tracking tissue implant records. Ventus Tissue Manager provides an integrated closed loop approach to recording implants on a surgical case within Sunrise Surgical Care reducing dual nursing documentation.

Ventus Healthcare Scheduling

Additional Solutions:

Ventus Intelligent Coding

An abstracting tool that helps optimize revenue and reduce compliance risk for Outpatient Facilities and Emergency Care Physicians, through efficient and consistent CPT(r). charge capture and appropriate visit level E&M assignment, with strict adherence to CMS guiding principles. Ventus Intelligent Coding offers modules for Emergency Department Facility, Observation, Emergency Department Physician, Infusion and Chemotherapy, and Urgent Care Clinic which can operate individually or in combination.

Ventus Integrated Patient Record

Provides healthcare providers an aggregated, longitudinal view of a patient's record. Ventus Integrated Patient Record is data agnostic and works with a variety of backend Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems. This tool supports clinical and administrative workflows for care teams across a community and across EHR systems and accelerates productivity through user customized views of health information.

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