Visonex: Redesign Document Care in Dialysis Health Sector

Dialysis is a very large expenditure for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). The dialysis healthcare sector has undergone continued structural changes as CMS strives to contain costs yet ensure that quality care is delivered. This result in major obstacles as increasing regulatory burdens is placed on dialysis clinics with declining real reimbursement. “The clinical information systems must be able to provide documentation of treatment parameters, medications, and the care plan within optimized clinical workflows and not merely function as a log of standalone events and billing data,” delineates John Hartman, Co-founder and CEO, Visonex. Bridging this gap is a Green Bay, WI based company Visonex that provides a cloud-based Electronic Health Record (EHR) system. “So, rather than focusing on tracking information for billing or legal reasons, Visonex focuses on providing accurate and precise information within clinical workflows that would positively impact dialysis practices,” confides Hartman.

Hartman envisioned a health care system capable of increasing communication, disseminating patient information, as well as streamlining workflow and hence co-founded Visonex. “We were interested in the way technology could facilitate communications while minimizing the negative impact of introducing technology into the clinic. We feel that we are not merely an EHR, rather; we have focused on truly assisting the clinic manage their information. Our EHR was built using agile software development methodologies to address workflows within the dialysis clinic,” states Hartman. The firm’s focus is to ensure that data is viewed on the individual user based on their clinic role, building work flow co-ordination to bring actionable insights to patient’s health at point of care.

In addition, Visonex’s Clarity is an EHR specifically designed to work with the individual providers’ workflow found in dialysis clinics. “All billing events start with a clinical event,” states Hartman. Clarity provides specific screens to enable the physicians, care providers, nurses and the support staff (dietitians and social workers) to view requisite information for their patient interactions.