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ARRA meaningful use goals drive Kingman Regional and Platte Valley to choose Soarian Clinicals

Siemens Healthcare announced that BJC HealthCare, one of the largest nonprofit healthcare organizations in the U.S., has signed a new twelve-year agreement to migrate 11 of its hospitals to Soarian Financials, Siemens ’ enterprise-wide, web-based revenue cycle solution. Siemens also announced that Platte Valley and Kingman Regional medical centers each signed new multi-year deals to bring Soarian Clinicals live in their facilities: moves based in part on the providers’ goals to achieve Meaningful Use of an electronic health record ( EHR ) as outlined in the HITECH provision of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).

For BJC HealthCare, the new $49 million agreement extends across 11 hospitals, from Barnes-Jewish and St. Louis Children’s hospitals at its academic medical center in St. Louis to suburban community hospitals and others in rural Missouri. BJC was seeking a solution to help drive down operational costs, improve clinical charge automation, and reduce denials and bad debt through system standardization.

"We chose Soarian Revenue Cycle Management because it has the ability to handle the complexities of a large organization like BJC HealthCare while simplifying the way we interact with our patients and helping us create a consistent, efficient patient experience," said Kevin Roberts, Senior VP, CFO, BJC HealthCare.

With the addition of Soarian Scheduling and Soarian Enterprise Document Management in the agreement, BJC will also implement a simplified scheduling process throughout its health system.

“When BJC was formed, we brought together multiple legacy revenue cycle management systems, which created a number of inherent challenges,” said David Weiss, Senior VP, CIO, BJC HealthCare. “We have been in search of a solution that will provide a single enterprise-wide, web–based revenue cycle infrastructure equipped with the necessary tools to reduce ongoing costs and respond quickly to a rapidly changing health care environment."

At the Kingman Regional Medical Center in Kingman, Arizona, a strong desire to achieve Meaningful Use of an EHR and improve patient safety metrics by replacing a paper-based workflow with an enterprise-wide clinical information system has led them to pen a new 10-year deal for Soarian Clinicals, Critical Care, and Siemens Pharmacy with Medication Administration Check, along with NextGen Healthcare’s ambulatory EHR solution. Building upon an existing Siemens health IT relationship – which includes a new 10-year extension of their legacy revenue cycle system contract – Kingman Regional is seeking to generate even stronger physician affinity through Soarian and utilize its unique workflow engine to help nurses and clinicians achieve their specific patient safety, reporting, and efficiency objectives.

Meeting ARRA meaningful use milestones was also one of the driving forces behind Brighton, Colorado-based Platte Valley Medical Center’s decision to recently sign on for several Soarian applications, including Clinicals, Critical Care, Enterprise Document Management, and Siemens Pharmacy, in a contract that runs through 2020. Also a Siemens legacy health IT system customer, the 100-bed acute care hospital is using this new deal to begin building a next-generation electronic health record that offers robust clinical decision support functionality and can help them realize several specific clinical-care benchmarks.

Source: Siemens Healthcare