Integrated Delivery System Planner™

Hospital Performance Management Software

Healthcare providers are experiencing significant pressure to improve hospital performance. Margin pressures from government and private health plans, rising labor costs, large capital investment requirements, qualified labor shortages, and higher payment shortfalls combine to make it increasingly difficult for healthcare providers to deliver results on expectations. It is increasingly to balance quality of care, efficiencies, and the bottom line.

To answer the need for improved operational and strategic planning capabilities, River Logic has developed Integrated Delivery System Planner™ (IDS Planner) to help optimize resource levels and efficiently maximize quality of care, while improving financial performance. Included in the solution is a detailed, comprehensive operational model of the integrated delivery system, as well as a full financial model.

• CEO/Chief Medical Officers – IDS Planner allows executives to conduct in-depth analyses and develop insightful business plans so that they can grow market share.
• CFOs – IDS Planner increase the accuracy of financial forecasts so that decisions regarding capital investments improve financial return. Costs can be traced back to real activity and financial drivers.
• Hospital Administrators/Department Heads – IDS Planner gives administrators/department heads the ability to know the net impact of their activity across an enterprise. Increased insight into decision outcomes facilitates better tactical choices such as physician hires, compensation plans, etc. Additionally, a proactive approach to identifying errors is possible, increasing revenue/profit and reducing the risk of regulatory breaches.
• Physicians – IDS Planner improves decision-making, resulting in improved patient care, practice performance, and physician efficiency. IDS Planner supports integrated planning across hospitals and physician practices.
• IT Professionals – IDS Planner enables IT professionals to leverage the most sophisticated and powerful Integrated Delivery System solution available today, while freeing their departments to focus on core business – delivering optimal and efficient patient care. Additionally, IDS Planner enables IT staff to expand the usage of Microsoft platforms (SQL and SharePoint).

The Value IDS Planner delivers:

• Significant increase in net-revenue and operating profit
• Reduction of Accounts Receivable by 33% or more
• Deep understanding of activity and financial drivers by treatment plan, physician, physician type, practice, and service line across the integrated delivery system
• Optimal allocation of growth capital, resulting in higher ROI and profitable market share gains
• Improved forecast accuracy (up to 99% accurate in some cases)
• Reduction of operational discrepancies, resulting in higher billings
• Allows the integration of system-wide physician ancillaries and inpatient/outpatient hospital activities
• Identification and correction of discrepancies, eliminating potential regulatory penalties

IDS Planner provides:

• Comprehensive, near real-time tracking and analysis of physician activity, including clinical visits, referrals, ancillaries, and in-patient/out-patient procedures
• An integrated representation of the underlying drivers of activity and capacity constraints across the integrated system
• Validation to actual financial performance and accurate representation of the impact of system activity, including payer mix, so that hospital administrators and physicians understand the net revenue and profit impact of activities
• Advanced planning and decision-support, including what-ifs such as physician hire-fire, M&A, RVU (Relative Value Unit) vs. salary, new service line modeling, treatment plan efficiency, and facility investments with automatic output of financial forecast directly supporting budgeting and financial planning exercises
• Comprehensive reporting capabilities, including daily RVU compensation tracking, daily P&L forecast by physician, physician type, service, and product lines (including all CPTs, DRGs, and ancillaries tracked back to referral source), treatment plan evaluation, scenario analysis and comparison, exception-based activity and billing reports, error identification, etc.
• Comprehensive checks and balances – IDS Planner automatically reviews hundreds of thousands of system events to find discrepancies, coding/billing errors, etc.

Learn about IDS Planner Components.
Download the IDS Planner Datasheet and the Greenville Hospital System Case Study.