New provider management solution from Initiate Systems

Oct 1 2009

Initiate Systems, Inc., a leader in data management solutions for the exchange of health information, announced today the launch of its Initiate^® Provider Management solution, a unique offering that allows healthcare organizations to create a provider registry to ensure that all systems using provider data operate from the same up-to-date information.

Like patient data, provider data exists across a healthcare network in multiple disparate systems, such as human resources, credentialing and provisioning, licensing and various laboratory systems. This data often is incompatible between internal systems, causing redundancy and inconsistency. As a result, communication with providers regarding patient care is delayed and information is sometimes misrouted. This issue can cause providers to discontinue patient referrals, causing a negative impact on a health system’s bottom line.

“Initiate Provider Management is ideal for hospitals with multiple credentialing systems that want to align license, specialization and contact information across their enterprise,” said Brian Vile, Initiate’s vice president, product strategy. “Having the right information available about the providers enables the health system to increase referrals through physician recruitment programs and push clinical results to the right community physicians.”

Initiate Provider Management enables organizations to create a master view of each provider by linking together different representations of provider data. This capability makes it easy to maintain up-to-date contact and credentialing information, while sharing this information with downstream systems and processes across a network. It also provides visibility into the relationships between providers and their patients that exist in the data.

Built upon proven Initiate products – Initiate Master Data Service^® and Initiate Inspector^™ –Initiate Provider Management enables hospitals to link provider and patient registries, offering a more holistic view of clinicians and patient care. Initiate’s unique capability to present graphically patients, providers and their relationships improves a health system’s understanding of its highest referring providers. This capability also helps health systems target programs to keep providers satisfied and loyal to the health system.