Across the board, healthcare providers and hospitals are being asked to do more with less. Declining claims reimbursement rates, the shift to value-based purchasing, escalating healthcare costs, heightened awareness of medical errors, and a higher-than-ever number of insured Americans are increasing the need to improve the financial health of medical practices and hospitals. Healthcare providers need to decrease inefficiencies and costs while increasing the level of patient satisfaction. 

Providers need to be able to uncover areas of improvement with efficiency and accuracy and finding those areas needs to be as easy as possible. Practices and hospitals that can see and measure their processes from end to end will have the greatest success in finding key areas for improvement and therefore increasing their efficiency and revenue.

For these reasons, providers must manage their business and clinical processes better from start to finish. Noted management expert Peter Drucker said this, “You can’t manage what you can’t measure.” Before your practice can make any improvements in your process, you must first know where you have opportunities to do so. Many information systems give providers seemingly limitless data. For most organizations, taking this massive amount of data and putting it to practical use has been overwhelming and/or impossible. Determining where and how to employ a quality improvement strategy is complex, but ABBYY Timeline can help medical professionals better understand clinical processes.

What Is Timeline?

ABBYY Timeline is the comprehensive Process Intelligence platform that can provide health care providers the data they need to take action. This cloud-based platform not only delivers continuous operational insight to healthcare providers, but also offers over 28 prebuilt, best practice analysis tools that will help healthcare leaders gain a full perspective of their processes. This enables you to identify areas where efficiency can be improved, where you can provide a better quality of care, and where you can improve the patient experience. Timeline maps out your full process end-to-end, even from data that is stored in different systems (EHR, LIKS, RIS, PACS, RCM, etc.) as well as processes that happen in different locations. Within seconds of loading your data, you can visualize where inefficiencies, repeated steps, bottlenecks, and any other issues within your processes may be occurring. This data comes in real-time and enables your team to make the best decisions to improve your overall process. The result increases patient satisfaction and clinician experience.  In the end, it saves your organization money.

How Does Timeline Work?

While healthcare workers and clinicians make up the most visible portion of healthcare, the entire system relies on a complex web of interconnected and interdependent processes, many of which happen in different locations and use different systems. To optimize your overall process, you need to see how the different pieces are interrelated and the places in that end to end process that can be improved. An end to end perspective can help you discover best practices, identify mistakes and inefficiencies, and quantify a variety of behaviors that can directly impact outcomes, revenue, and costs. Traditional process improvement takes lots of time, money, and people. But new technology makes it possible to take your existing data and integrate it to give you that high-level view without the need to modify existing IT infrastructure. Timeline automatically creates an interactive model and generates a wide variety of analyses.  As a result, you can immediately access process insights that are not available from any existing tools in your current system. This  cloud-based platform can be accessed by your entire team as needed for the highest efficiency for everyone involved. You can now easily identify bottlenecks, costs, and compliance risks associated with any point in your process and across all your systems. Moreover, you can see how to solve them. 

How Will Timeline Give You a Clear View of Your Patients' Entire Experience With in Your Office?

Every area of your healthcare business will benefit from Timeline including Appointments & Scheduling, Clinical Care Coordination, Hospital Operations, Patient Safety & Risk, Patient Satisfaction, Payer Contracting, Pharmacy Procurement Radiology, CP & AP Labs Rehabilitation, PT, OT, ST, Resource Stewardship, and Revenue Cycle Management

• Scheduling/admissions/registration to 
• Previsit financial navigation to check-in and arrival to 
• Care delivery/care management/charging to 
• Checkout/discharge – 
• To coding/charge review to 
• Claims and billing to 
• Finance to 
• Post and home healthcare

How Will Timeline Help You?

You can expect to see improvement in your efficiency in every point of the patient experience when you implement Timeline.

• Reduction of over admittance and patient wait time
• Faster lab request turnaround
• Prediction of staffing allocation
• Decrease in patient wait times and door to doctor times
• Increase in patient satisfaction and retention
• Queue warnings for delayed processes
• Rooming delay reduction

Why AccelHealth Systems?

AccelHealth Systems provides a means for efficiencies in the present and set up for success in the future. As protocols change and processes adapt, ABBYY Timeline with AccelHealth delivers the tools to understand existing processes and make the required updates to maintain peak efficiencies and ensure compliance with all standards and performance targets. AccelHealth helps in a variety of ways. We give fast insight through a real-time measure of processes enabling any organization to make an informed decision more quickly. AccelHealth Systems provides full support and guidance from implementation through deploying. 

Not only will Timeline help you create your most efficient present, It will set you up for success in your future. As required protocols change, Timeline will provide you with the tools to understand your existing process and make the required updates keeping you in compliance with all standards and meeting performance targets.

All this to say, ABBYY Timeline can help you in a variety of ways.

It will give you fast Insights – a real-time measure of your processes - enabling you to make the best decisions in an instant.

It is a low effort. AccelHealth Systems provides full support and guidance during your implementation and onboarding.