Cedaron Medical: Innovative Outpatient Rehabilitation EHR Solutions

Health system CIOs have focused significant resources deploying enterprise-wide EHR software to as many of their departmental users as possible. This approach can save money and improve the quality of care. However, enterprise EHR systems were developed for physician documentation, and as such, struggle with the unique workflow, compliance and billing dynamics of outpatient rehabilitation. Karen Bond, Cedaron Medical’s Founder, President and CEO sums it up well by saying “using an enterprise EHR designed for physicians, in a department where therapy is practiced, is like trying to fit a square peg in a round hole”. Hospitals attempting to leverage enterprise EHR systems for outpatient rehabilitation, experience a surge in claims denials and administrative costs, and a significant dip in therapist productivity. Cedaron Medical, a California based company, was established to nullify these shortcomings. Cedaron CONNECT is good medicine for outpatient rehabilitation departments. Cedaron CONNECT clients realize, on average, a 12 percent increase in therapist productivity, 84 percent reduction in denied claims, and 23 percent reduction in administrative overhead.

The differentiated value of Cedaron CONNECT is recognized by the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA), the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA), and the American Society of Hand Therapists (ASHT). Cedaron is the sole vendor of all three national entities. CONNECT allows therapists to maximize time treating patients because the intelligence of the software makes it easy to document therapeutic progress spanning multiple encounters, ongoing insurance reauthorization and complex billing and payment models. CONNECT enables accurate and defensible documentation that is not possible in other systems. It ingrains analytical capabilities that allow organizations to measure results and improve outcomes. Moreover, it puts patients at the center of the treatment process, enabling therapists to make the transition to Value Based Care where reduced costs and improved outcomes are the name of the game. The turnkey CONNECT software package is supported by a dedicated pool of US-based customer service professionals, available 24/7.