Fully integrated solutions that help strengthen revenue streams and drive growth.
Ventus
Ventus is a portfolio of robust, fully integrated solutions including revenue cycle, enterprise master patient index, surgery and scheduling, Intelligent Coding and Integrated Patient Record. Ventus is positioned for growth as it aligns closely with Altera Digital Health’s vision. Its mission is to provide the Ventus Client Experience driven through collaboration to ensure continued client success, world-class support and value-added services. Ventus continues enhancing its portfolio of products in the market while leveraging deep client relationships to secure existing revenue streams and drive growth of the Ventus suite of solutions.
Revenue Cycle Solutions:
A Hospital Information System (HIS) that utilizes an IBM Enterprise Server to provide large, complex healthcare organizations with an integrated suite of solutions for Patient Management, Patient Accounting and Health Information Management (HIM). Clients have access to HealthQuest source code and can do their own software changes and upgrades.
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.
Focuses on the management of Payor contracts. It helps the provider to understand if a contract is profitable or not. Ventus Contract Management also integrates with Patient Accounting systems and accurately calculates expected reimbursement, contractual adjustments, payment variances and denials and appeals.
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 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.
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.
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 is a surgical information system that helps support patient safety initiatives in the operating room from access management, surgery scheduling, supply management, case costing and perioperative documentation for surgical cases.
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.
An enterprise patient scheduling solution designed to meet the appointment scheduling needs of an enterprise. It is the foundation to support Ventus Surgical Manager surgery scheduling, revenue cycle and clinical care processes across the enterprise.
A standalone enterprise patient scheduling, surgery and inventory management system.
Additional Solutions:
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.
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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