Care Management
Care Management refers to the oversight of a patient’s care to achieve improved health outcomes. Vendors in this category provide solutions to support providers in managing the care of their populations to achieve VBC targets. These solutions include provider-facing enablement tools that help providers structure and oversee their patients’ care plans, patient engagement tools that encourage patients to take greater ownership of their own care, and patient-facing services delivered by professionals credentialed in care management, care navigation, and/or care coordination. Companies in this category generally overlap with companies found in the care plan managementcategory and care management functions can often overlap with Care Navigationfunctions.
Criteria:
Software or services oriented around enabling care planning and follow through to achieve health outcomes
Product Usage: The product is used as an all-in-one system for phone communications, ticketing, order management, and customer automation processes, including follow-ups and reminders.
Strengths: The main strength of the product is its powerful automation capabilities and its flexibility, making it conducive for varied strategies in healthcare firms.
Weaknesses: Phone and ticketing functions are basic and are areas that could be improved.
Overall Judgment: The system has proved extremely useful for achieving product-market fit by acting as an all-in-one solution negating the need for multiple SaaS tools.
Product Usage: Used as the primary platform for clinicians and coordinators, allowing for patient registration, scheduling, visits, and communication entirely through Tellescope, except for clinical note documentation, which is done on Elation.
Strengths: Tellescope has an advanced scheduling system that accommodates multiple providers across different states and the open API which permits quick and flexible amendments.
Weaknesses: The user interface could be enhanced on both ends (patient-facing and clinician-facing), with an additional need for better onboarding and user guidelines for new functionalities.
Overall Judgment: Despite minor shortcomings, the product’s unique positioning, continuous development, and responsive customer support make it an excellent choice for their needs.
Product Usage: The product is being employed as a CRM to manage, track, and organize interactions with patients, with additional features being custom triggers, automations, analytics capabilities, and a mobile app.
Strengths: Flexibility and customization to meet users’ needs, responsiveness and proactive adjustments are highlighted strengths.
Weaknesses: Initial experiences of bugs, although notable improvements have been seen. Additionally, the user interface could use some refinement.
Overall Judgment: The reviewer is satisfied, affirming that the choice to use Tellescope was the right decision for their organization, due to its adaptability, customization features, and quick implementation process.
Product Usage: Welkin is primarily used for communication between nurses, facilitating referrals, telehealth sessions, and documentation.
Strengths: Welkin is praised for its flexibility and customizability that allows in-house feature development.
Weaknesses: Users are suggesting improvements in the assessment templates’ interactivity and the functionality of the calendar feature.
Overall Judgment: Despite its minor weaknesses, Welkin is greatly appreciated for its effective overall product and features.
Product Usage: Welkin is used primarily for communication between the clinical team and patients, with custom-built features and functionality present to facilitate seamless transitions.
Strengths: The platform’s strengths include its trackability for patients, customizability, robust API, and security permissions which provide a level of control for sensitive data.
Weaknesses: Welkin lacks a functionality to easily switch coverage for users when providers are unavailable and a feature that correctly links conversations to the involved parties’ account in the case of child-parent relationships.
Overall Judgment: Despite a few lacking functionalities, Welkin has been a good fit for the company due to its strengths and the company has appreciated the support and responsiveness to their requests.
Product Usage: Tellescope is used as a main scheduling tool that offers the flexibility of implementing scheduling constraints, secure chat features, and potential addition of video conferencing and customized patient journeys.
Strengths: Tellescope offers a secure and HIPAA-compliant platform with flexibility, clear documentation, good support from co-founders, and fast customization of solutions based on specific client requirements.
Weaknesses: The product’s provider setting for availability is non-intuitive and the calendar integration is challenging for providers who want to link a non-HIPAA-compliant external calendar. Occasional minor bugs are encountered.
Overall Judgment: Despite minor bugs and the need for additional training for providers, the decision to choose Tellescope is validated by its cost-effectiveness, specific healthcare focus, strong support, and HIPAA compliance.
Product Usage: Welkin is primarily used for clinical operations and to create complex care plans, as well as e-prescribing.
Strengths: Rapid adoption among clinicians and a high level of configurability are notable strengths of Welkin.
Weaknesses: The inflexible scheduling and messaging issues, oversold integrations, and lackluster onboarding process are notable weaknesses of Welkin.
Overall Judgment: While Welkin has been useful and reliable overall, there are areas for improvement and the reviewer mentions considering another EHR system that might have been a better match.
Product Usage: Lightbeam provides a central analytics management hub, tracking patient lives at-risk, financial benchmarks, and offering comprehensive care management.
Strengths: Lightbeam manages to simplify and organize complex health data into understandable blocks, providing clear visibility, and excellent audit support capabilities.
Weaknesses: Lightbeam suffers from real-time application limitations and slow data processing speeds, causing duplicate work and inefficiencies.
Overall Judgment: Despite its limitations, Lightbeam’s simplicity and payor integration make it a suitable choice for smaller practices with limited technological expertise.
Product Usage: Welkin is used as an Electronic Health Record (EHR) system by the company, with features serving as a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system. It is used for connecting with patients, clinical note-taking and review, workflow automation and tracking patient progress over time.
Strengths: The system offers a customizable interface and focuses on tracking long-term patient progress. It has integrated features like DocuSign and DrFirst, and allows data extraction and management for improving clinical operations.
Weaknesses: There are limitations on editing finalized notes, the calendar doesn’t show provider’s working hours or days off, and external care coordination is somewhat hampered due to a lack of support for fax. The APIs have certain limitations and the system doesn’t support bi-directional data flow with other platforms.
Overall Judgment: Welkin’s services have been largely positive, allowing effective patient management and providing a level of customization not common in typical EHRs. While there are certain limitations, the system is overall deemed reliable for the next couple of years, contingent on how it evolves and expands its features.
Product Usage: Tellescope provides a comprehensive care management system suitable for highly interactive patient care with multimodal communication options like SMS, phone, and email.
Strengths: Tellescope quickly and effectively implements new features, offers strong capability in reporting, patient communication, team communication, forms and ticketing, and features a good API that integrates well with other systems.
Weaknesses: The user interface requires improvement and tends to lag in customizing for specific brand alignment. The platform could benefit from improvements in automations and batch processes, along with better rendering for content management.
Overall Judgment: Tellescope effectively fills a niche in the digital health care management market with a well-designed and user-friendly service that adapts well to changing user needs. The product offers latitude for growth, with robust functionality and customization options.