Polaris Health Directions Inc.
Polaris-CV was designed to meet the needs of each of the various stakeholders involved in the treatment process: patients, clinicians, clinical managers/administrators, case managers/utilization reviewers, office staff and payers.
Patients
- Helps ensure depressed patients receive appropriate and effective treatment
- Most patients that require and receive treatment for depression experience improved quality of life
- Patients become more likely to comply with medication and other necessary steps to recovery
- Reduced risk for cardiac mortality/morbidity associated with depression
Physicians
- Improve the ability to detect depression
- Supports clinical decision making (refer/medicate/”watch and wait”)
- Improve treatment outcomes: patient quality of life and/or cardiac prognosis
- Can monitor severity of depression over time to determine whether the current treatment is “working”
- May have less paperwork due to the availability of reports for the clinical record
- Reports can be used to help motivate the patient for treatment for depression when appropriate
- Requires no more time or effort than is needed to review the results of a lab test
Office Staff
- Minimal training required for use of system software
- Provided with software tools for the efficient management of data collection
- Designed to complement, not disrupt, the treatment process
Program Managers/Administration
- Obtain standardized, reliable, severity adjusted outcomes data
- May use the system as the foundation for meaningful Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) and program evaluation
- May use aggregate data to respond to payers and comply with accreditation requirements
- Provides for cost-effective resource allocation, ensuring that the “right” patients receive the “right” treatment
Payers
- Can enhance and simplify utilization review
- Receive standardized and clinically relevant information about program performance
- Can document the quality of the care they purchase
- May reduce medical costs
Contact us at moreinfo@polarishealth.com to find out more about the benefits your practice will see by using Polaris-CV.
We are committed to helping you succeed in improving the outcomes of the cardiac patients you serve.
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