NextStep PHMA complete solution for hospitals treating children and adults with mental illness
A great deal of time is spent in transferring information from one form to another to comply with payer reporting requirements, for an upcoming accreditation visit, for billing, and to prepare information for internal meetings and quality improvement. Not only could this time be used more productively, duplicating efforts delays important processes including submitting bills. With this considerable overhead in administrative time and information that’s spread out over many sheets of paper or screens in an electronic records system, valuable clinical information collected during the course of consumer care is rarely used to help the consumer and improve the quality of care provided. Add in large case loads, regular unexpected interruptions, compliance documentation for accreditation, case meetings, and coordinating with psychiatrists and quickly delivering the right information to the right people is a struggle.
NextStep™: The Next Step in Clinical Automation and Evidence-based Care for Mental Health – NextStep automates critical processes that have a real impact on the day-to-day procedures involved in providing, documenting, and evaluating care in mental health and provides simple, intuitive ways to use the information without having to collect information “on the side.” Its flexibility and built-in wizards allow an organization to use NextStep with its own clinical program, measures, and method of operation without having to rely on technical support or customizations. And, it seamlessly connects to scheduling and billing systems to eliminate entering duplicate data and streamline the billing process, tying fees directly to services provided and the treatment plan.
IMPROVING OPERATIONS & PROVIDING INSTANT EVIDENCE-BASED CARE TO CONSUMERS
Operations – Using NextStep, a clinic can: 1) decrease costs by eliminating duplicate work, streamlining billing to reduce delays and errors that occur from transferring information between systems and sheets for billing, and providing eligible services and 2) increase productivity and work quality by improving access to valuable information at the click of a button. NextStep only requires Internet Explorer and the Internet with no extra hardware or software installation. NextStep links seamlessly with existing billing systems.
Instant Evidence-based Care – NextStep provides instant graphs and reports to quickly identify outcomes, goals, and objectives that consumers have made significant progress towards attaining and those that have been difficult for them to achieve. These evidence-based graphs can be viewed by consumer, diagnosis, or provider. Changes in the plan that reflect actual consumers’ behavior can be made effortlessly.
TECHNOLOGY
NextStep is a web-based automation software for care facilities by NextStep Solutions, Inc. with years of experience in outcome-based human services. NextStep is ideal for outpatient services, residential care, and private practice. Highlights include custom assessments, case management, budgeting and seamless billing, a treatment planning wizard, charting, an integrated outcome dashboard, medication management, prescriptions, drug interactions and side effects, portable technology for on the road, and integrated scheduling. NextStep is designed to automate and streamline a paperless workflow and is extremely easy to use, affordable, and easy to set up. NextStep’s award-winning management and outcome-driven care tools are second to none. Using our laptop software, NextStep can be taken on the road for offsite case management and services.
ADVANTAGES
Automate Clinical and Administrative Processes – NextStep’s integrated wizards for treatment planning, charting specifically to goals with direct billing, which remind clinical staff of upcoming assessments; plan reviews; medication reviews; and other important milestones, make day-to-day processes quick and easy.
Extreme Flexibility – Using NextStep’s form builder and program templates, changes to the program, forms, and other important tasks and documents, can be made within the clinic.
Cost-Effective – With NextStep, a clinic can solve many of the problems addressed by cumbersome “form-based” systems that only offer electronic forms to keep records without any process automation or evidence-based dashboard. All this and without the high costs associated with other systems entailing constant upgrades in hardware and software since NextStep is web-based!
No Additional Computers Required – NextStep is a web-based automation software for care facilities by a development team with years of experience in streamlining human services. Highlights include custom assessments, case management, billing, a treatment planning wizard, charting, medication management, prescriptions, and scheduling.
FEATURES AND BENEFITS OF NEXTSTEP |
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FEATURE |
FUNCTION |
BENEFIT |
Customizable forms using the Form Builder |
Enables an organization to create its own forms without requiring any expensive technical assistance. |
Allows for an organization’s providers to collaborate and develop to specific clinical forms. |
Treatment Planning Wizard |
Directs clinical staff through creating a personalized treatment plan. |
Streamlines management planning and results in plans consistent with the treatment program. |
Plan Review Wizard |
Leads clinical staff in the review of plans and automatically creating a new chart. |
Ensures consistency in evaluating goals and quickly generates a new plan based on progress. |
Quick Chart |
Permits clinical staff to chart to the plan for goals and subjectively rate the consumer’s progress for objectives. |
Allows for quick charting in a format that lets a supervisor easily review all charts for quality notes relevant to the consumers’ goals. |
Medication Review Wizard |
Guides physicians through a medication review on a single document without having to navigate back-and-forth between pages. |
Assures expeditious medication reviews using valuable chart notes from clinical staff on goals relevant to target symptoms, managing medications, and automatically migrates symptoms to the treatment plan. |
Integrated Genelex RX |
Determines drug interaction risks. |
Uses APA drug interaction knowledge to color code medications and quickly identify possible risks with prescriptions. |
Evidence-based Dashboard |
Provides one-click access to graphical evidence-based outcomes by consumer, provider, or diagnosis. |
Empowers clinical staff with the ability to modify treatment services and plans according to actual real-time consumer progress and improves the overall program using outcome data without any extra information entry. |
WORKFLOW FEATURES |
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Consumer Information |
Stores a consumer’s identifying details including basic information, insurance carriers, and emergency information. |
Offers fully documented records to facilitate claims processing and billing. |
Reminders |
Produces an ongoing, automatic list of items that are due for completion or past due with hyperlinks to navigate directly to those items. |
Without setting any ‘alarms,’ an ‘automatic reminders’ list identifies important clinical tasks such as assessments and plan reviews. For the item to depart the list, it must be completed. |
Facility Administration |
Generates status overviews of important processes such as admissions, intake evaluations, and assessments. |
Allows a supervisor to ensure that clinical tasks are being performed appropriately and in a timely manner. |
e-Folders |
Provides viewable and printable documents for all clinical paperwork. |
Affords authorized staff to view, print, and create PDFs of clinical documents. |
NextStep Link |
Seamlessly links to external legacy, billing, and scheduling systems. |
Enables organizations to use separate billing and scheduling programs, and seamlessly link to other systems. |
Reports |
Supplies standard reports and enables customized reporting via management select criteria. |
Aids with analysis of business and clinical trends for informed decision-making and budget preparation. |
SAMPLE FEATURES IN NEXTSTEP
Treatment Planning Wizard, Charting, and Direct Billing
This simple wizard helps to automate the development of personalized treatment plans. Each organization puts their specific treatment program into NextStep. Using NextStep, staff examine each consumer’s unique needs and identify treatment plan goals from a series of goals from the treatment program. Based on the goals identified, NextStep helps determine the optimal combination of interventions. Plans are tailored to each consumer by adding personalized details and staff instructions. Staff chart to the plan by goal and bill directly from the chart for services without any extra steps or delays. Part of the treatment planning wizard includes a dashboard for monitoring progress towards achieving a goal and a treatment plan review wizard. This comes complete with reminders that tell staff of upcoming reviews, assessments, and other important events without the hassle of setting reminder alarms – it’s automatic.
Medication Review Wizard
Physicians use the Medication Management tools in NextStep to conduct medication reviews, record and assess presenting symptoms, keep chart notes, prescribe medications, and record side effects. Without any extra work, NextStep links presenting symptoms that are being treated by medication to the treatment plan. Physicians have one-click access to quality chart notes for goals relevant to the symptoms they are treating. NextStep also identifies risks of drug interactions and side effects using the Genelex RX knowledgebase endorsed by the American Psychological Association. With the Medication Review Wizard, valuable information can be collected and aligned with our evidence-based practice engine without any extra work from the doctors. Features like quick-fill options, onscreen symptom history, and color-coded medication status make NextStep a great tool for a quality, quick, and easy medication review, perfect for large case loads!
Custom Forms Using the Form Builder
NextStep integrates important clinical practices and documentation into automation wizards, and also keeps clinical assessments and other records using customized forms. Instead of relying on expensive technical assistance, using our Form Builder custom forms can be created and changed in a matter of minutes. Custom forms can include narratives, diagnoses from the latest DSM, a list of choices, a group of choices where just one option can be selected or a group where one or more can be selected, drop-down choices, consumer information, and more. The forms designed in NextStep can be designated as assessments that reoccur such as an annual psychosocial evaluation or as a form that can be filled out at any time. Forms can be signed by multiple parties using e-Signatures or using a signature pad that captures an image of the actual signature. Information can be set to save as a draft, as final, or sealed. External documents such as Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, and Adobe PDF files can be attached to the clinical record.
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