IMS - Patient Centric Solutions

IMS' inpatient programs result in more efficient use of hospital resources which in turn leads to lower complication rates from nosocomial and iatrogenic disease and from errors.

Situation

Appropriate care is needed for the 5% of individuals who consume 50% of healthcare resources. Information technology can help deliver innovative and more efficient methods of care, resulting in superior clinical and financial outcomes.

Solution

Founded in 1995, IMS-IMP started as a hospitalist company. The company has always used information technology in innovative ways to leverage efficiency of care and to deliver information to the point of service.

Over a five year period, IMS migrated the same innovative care processes to the outpatient setting. Transitional Care Centers are now a proven method to improve care and reduce costs for individuals with the most complex problems. Care is disease focused with current capability in congestive heart failure, coronary artery disease, COPD, asthma, and diabetes. Cost reductions run in the range of 50% per month in this setting.

IMS also utilizes a telephonic disease management product that provides maintenance for the Transitional Care patient while also supporting physician office care for the high risk individual. Additional cost savings run in the range of 8-35%.

Better Health & Lower Costs

The inpatient programs result in more efficient use of hospital resources, which in turn leads to lower complication rates from nosocomial and iatrogenic disease and from errors. By reducing average stays by as much as 1-2 days in the first year and by subsequent amounts averaging 0.5 days,the hospitals realize increased capacity and increased revenue per bed per day.

The results from Transitional Care are dramatic. These patients suffer from the discontinuities in the delivery system. By utilizing disease focused, information technology support, we are able to remove barriers to access to the care that is needed. For a single monthly fee, patients have unlimited access to care. The result is greater than 90% reduction in re-hospitalization and over 50% reduction in monthly cost.

The follow-on care that is telephonic uses the same systems leading to complete integration of care information and communication. Continuation of care that supports their own physician's care leads to additional reductions in cost of 8-35%.

Additional disease specific information is also available.