Solutions for Better Health Care

MIQS, Inc. transforms patient care into a competitive business advantage. Our products unify business and clinical processes in a seamless, efficient, application infrastructure, while enhancing business intelligence and clinical decision-making. The result is better care at lower cost.

Disease Manager Plus, is a comprehensive, patient-centered, coded software system that incorporates powerful analytic and reporting tools, and accommodates nephrology, transplant, and dialysis patient care, billing, reporting, and administrative functions in a single unitary database.

Disease Manager Plus, has evolved over 30 years and has been tested continuously in nephrology and dialysis practice. Published experience demonstrates that effective implementation results in improved patient care, decreased cost, and a significant increase in revenue captured. It has been praised by the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences and the Computerworld Smithsonian Awards program:

• Managing Disease - captures and analyzes clinical data relationships for individual patients and patient groups, and helps enforce guidelines for care.
• Managing Billing - integrates clinical data, codes charges, utilizes multiple fee schedules and/or payers, and automatically tracks receivables, posting, and collections.
• Managing Workflow - improves workflow, processing orders, result reporting, and referrals.
• Managing Patient Information - makes all patient data available for immediate interpretation by the caregiver at the point-of-care.

Deployment of Disease Manager Plus:

• Improves patient care
• Decreases clinical staff costs
• Decreases billing and administrative staff costs
• Increases revenue capture particularly for billable medications
• Enables compliance with government and other regulation
• Enables documentation to minimize chances of prosecution for fraud
• Prevents improper procedures from being carried out
• Prevents abandonment of proper charges
• Incorporates new drug and device evaluation during routine practice
• Improves coordinated chronic care of patients across multiple providers

Disease Manager Plus has proven itself in the complex care of dialysis patients. It promotes efficient use of dialysis center resources, improving time and revenue management.

• Handles multiple locations with a single database
• Seamlessly integrates in-patient and out-patient care
• Manages dialysis treatment from start to finish
• Provides comprehensive, flexible, reporting and performance profiling
• Coordinates care with nephrology practice, vascular access and transplant centers
• Automates data download from laboratory, dialysis machines, and other systems
• Integrates electronic medical record, vascular access, and billing
• Enables remote monitoring, including home nocturnal self dialysis

• Manages all aspects of vascular access procedures from start to finish
• Tracks and analyzes procedure and outcomes data
• Stores digital images of vascular access sites and access interventions

• Promotes accurate and efficient dialysis facility billing processes, improving time and revenue management.
• Handles multiple locations and provider accounts in a single database
• Promotes fast, flexible, set-up and maintenance of multiple fee schedules
• Creates charges, generates bills, and transmits them electronically
• Translates clinical data into billing data at the point-of care
• Translates clinical data into billing data at the point-of care
• Manages accounts receivables (A/R), payment posting and collections
• Tracks primary, secondary, and tertiary billing processes
• Provides comprehensive, flexible, reporting and performance profiling

• Manages all aspects of renal and transplantation patient care
• Seamlessly integrates in-patient and out-patient care
• Automates data download from laboratory and other systems
• Provides comprehensive, flexible, reporting and performance profiling
• Coordinates nephrology practice, vascular access and dialysis
• Integrates electronic medical record, scheduling, and billing
• Handles multiple locations within a single database
• Enables easy and rapid outcomes data analysis
• Facilitates reporting to UNOS and other transplant registries