For leading cardiovascular programs across the U.S., their custom heartbase workflow is a driver of success across the board. heartbase solutions like hbCOR, hbNote, and hbAnalytics streamline workflows, unearth actionable data, and unlock greater insights into the financial and clinical performance of their program.
Each heartbase solution was designed to have a powerful impact in a key area of cardiovascular (CV) data capture, reporting, and analytics. They work seamlessly together with hbRecon as the connective tissue that helps programs like yours do more with their data.
Follow along throughout this blog series, where we’ll explore how hbRecon works together with other heartbase solutions to unlock greater outcomes for your CV program. In Part 1, we’re covering how hbRecon is a perfect partner for hbCOR, heartbase’s solution for streamlined CV data collection.
hbCOR: Data Capture Made Simple
Every year, clinical data sets become increasingly complex. CV programs find themselves juggling more registry requirements than ever across various systems, and capturing it all can feel like a Herculean task—not to mention ensuring that the data is accurate and reliable.
hbCOR is the easier way to capture CV data. With support for submission and collection from every major CV registry, hbCOR arms your team with standardized, validated data they can trust at every step. Check out the features that are included with hbCOR below:
- hbAudit: Data validation & pre-harvest checks. hbCOR’s hbAudit feature validates CV data as it is entered in real time, automatically flagging any entries that look incomplete or out of the ordinary. When it’s time for submission, hbCOR runs a pre-harvest check to ensure 100% accuracy before the data is passed downstream.
- hbReporting & hbQuery: Pre-generated report templates & ad hoc reporting. hbCOR’s hbReporting feature houses an extensive library of clinically meaningful reports that the average user can run without any special knowledge. With hbQuery, clinical staff can easily generate reports on demand and access all clinical data points for a patient population over a specified time period.
- hbInteroperability: Integrate clinical data from various IT sources. Between EMR, hemodynamics systems, billing software, and other sources, it can be tricky for CV programs to manage all of the data at their fingertips. hbCOR’s hbInteroperability feature automatically pre-populates data from these disparate sources, cutting down on the burden of data abstraction.
hbRecon: CV Data and Coding Reconciliation
When CV clinical and coding datasets are not aligned, there’s six-figure revenue at stake—and it happens in CV programs across the country more often than you might realize. Clinical documentation often lacks the required specificity that coders need to appropriately code CV procedures, especially complications and comorbidities, leaving major reimbursement opportunities on the table.
hbRecon breaks down this costly barrier and helps clinicians and coders find alignment. Extrapolating your CV data allows hbRecon to recommend an appropriate MS-DRG code for the procedure, leading to more accurate revenue capture.
- Clinical registry, coding, and financial datasets in one place. hbRecon consolidates all of the data needed for accurate billing, uncovering potential gaps in documentation. This thorough process reduces underbilling and overbilling by flagging discrepancies between clinical data and coding.
- Cross-departmental collaboration. Clinicians and coders are often siloed, with neither having visibility into the other. heartbase facilitates communication between these two departments through monthly workbooks, emails, and meetings, to ensure both sides understand what the other needs to do their job efficiently.
- Institutional enhancements. More accurate revenue often leads to a fortified bottom line, which many leaders reinvest in their CV programs. hbRecon is the first step toward hiring new staff, giving raises and bonuses, investing in new equipment, and other ways to move your program forward.
hbCOR + hbRecon: More Accurate Data, More Actionable Outcomes for Your Bottom Line
When data is reliable and accurate, your CV program’s bottom line flourishes. That’s the reality for the leading CV programs that lean on hbCOR paired with hbRecon.
On its own, hbCOR’s extensive data cleanup tools ensure that your CV registry is as accurate as possible from the earliest stages. When hbRecon is brought into the picture, it serves as a final audit, then uses that accurate registry data to correct and improve coding—and thus, your program’s ability to capture more accurate revenue.
Many heartbase customers use that improved revenue to justify improvements to their CV program. Take it from Kerry Webb, MBA, BSN, RN, an RN CV Quality Data Analyst at a healthcare network with more than 40 hospitals and care centers across the U.S.
“hbRecon has given us a different language to speak to our physicians and our stakeholders,” she shares. “We can talk in dollars and cents, so we can show the impact our program has on patient care. Getting new equipment, hiring the top talent, taking care of our people—it’s all on the table when we’re armed with data hbRecon gives us.”
hbCOR paired with hbRecon ensures that your registry and coding data are always in alignment—a critical factor in the event of a CMS audit. From boosting your bottom line to safeguarding your compliance, the combined hbCOR + hbRecon workflow is a winning combination for CV programs.
Unlock a Stronger heartbase Workflow
With hbCOR and hbRecon working together as part of a unified heartbase workflow, CV programs can rely on trustworthy, actionable data to impact their bottom line. Schedule your personalized demo to see how a heartbase workflow based on hbCOR and hbRecon can help your CV program flourish.