Ensure Institutional Quality
The New Innovations software assists you to intuitively monitor institutional performance, including expiring licenses and certifications, CLER Visits, required personnel data, and institutional agreements.
Accreditation
Ensure the quality and safety of resident training with tools that help you manage the nuances associated with the Next Accreditation System. Problems can be identified and corrected faster and with less disruption.
- Prepare for CLER visits with designated areas for the GME Office
- Gather an informal pulse of resident opinions on the six focus areas of CLER prior to the visit using our poll feature
- Store and automatically distribute site-specific policies to core faculty and trainees
- Monitor agreements with automatic expiration emails
- Supervise learning progress by creating reports on key personnel
- Record CLER visit dates, identify key personnel, enter comments and attach files
Annual Program Evaluations (APE)
Review performance across programs at a glance, and see where programs excel. You can also view program trends, focus in on key areas of your programs and visualize which programs had a critical response to a question.
- Set questions with concise response types (yes/no, %, etc.)
- Easily search through tags, questions, and focus areas (Ex. View all responses that are tagged as “education,” “follow-up,” or all responses related to the APE Program Quality focus areas)
- Compare average responses from program to program
- Conveniently enter any program Citations or Concerns and link to Action Plans
- Track progress and resolutions for citations and concerns
- Record PEC member meetings
Implement Value-Based Reimbursement Strategies
Eliminate your institutional reimbursement issues with our Finance applications, which efficiently manage over $6.2 billion in Medicare/CMS reimbursement every year.
Billing
Automate your billing processes for trainee costs with optimized tools designed to support finance personnel. Enable your institution to configure custom "Contracts" that define the contractual obligations between itself and its affiliates.
- Easily create and manage the amounts paid for trainee salaries, malpractice, FICA, etc.
- Assign all applicable ‘Contracts’ to a single rotation or single person
- Generate billing information for a specific date range
- Various billing reports designed to inform various financial concerns
IRIS
Empower GME and finance personnel to collect and export IRIS information for Medicare Cost Reports.
- IRIS pulls personnel and scheduling data to automatically create reporting results by provider or for multiple providers
- Personnel and rotation schedule data seamlessly creates the Master file and Assignment files required by CMS
Drive Superior Clinical Outcomes
Consistently drive improved institutional results with features that easily manage data collection and provide robust reporting.
Reporting
Spend more time improving and less time discovering program issues. Easily gather information from across the institution, generate reports for individual programs, and customize your reporting to address specific areas of focus.
Evaluation Report Examples
- Extensive filtering options so that you only see what’s relevant to you
- See a global view of evaluation information
- These reports give you an overview of the performance data collected on all trainees
- Access a display of residency competency data
- View a list of assigned evaluations that have passed their due date
- See results of subcompetency questions
Personnel Data Reports
- This report displays the resident roster so you can easily view which residents are at which institution.
Scheduling Reports
Evaluations
Compile timely and relevant data about the performance of your personnel and their rotation experience. A complete 360° evaluation process can be achieved by setting up rules to automatically generate evaluations for all trainees, faculty, and ancillary staff.
Evaluations Builder
Enjoy a fast and intuitive form-building process that allows you to easily make or update your evaluations; even those in use.
- Conveniently edit a form while it's in use
- Enjoy numerous question types that accommodate program nuances
- Extract insights with comprehensive reporting
Evaluation Reports
Provide programs and institutions with dependable information about the quality of learning experiences they offer.
- Easily get detailed evaluation results about each resident, faculty member, or rotation
- Extract useful data immediately
- Intelligent report distribution and printing options
- Take a high-level view of all programs and all participants
- Choose what you want to see with easy filtering options
- '14 Day Compliance' column on Faculty Compliance Report
- ‘Comments-Only' reports for residents, faculty, and rotations
CCC Review
Efficiently accommodate requirements of the Next Accreditation System with our CCC Milestone Review. Allow CCC members to easily review summarized evaluation data and Program Director reviews to determine the trainee's current level.
- The spider graph displays the average resident score for each subcompetency by Year in Training
- Dig deeper into each resident's Milestone Review with notes on Milestones, Resident Reviews, File Attachments and Meeting Notes
- Enjoy a calculated score normalization that represents skill acquisition
Procedure Logger
Track information about procedures performed and diagnoses made by trainees in your program. Accurately monitor required levels of supervision for performing required procedures and set target numbers for trainees to meet.
- Residents and fellows can be automatically credentialed to perform procedures independently once they meet the goals set by you for each procedure
- Create custom fields to capture data that is specific to your program
- Import logs from the ACGME Resident Case Log System and use the features in New Innovations to view, manage, and report on this data
- Verify levels of supervision required for residents when they perform certain procedures.
Scholarly Activity
Trainees and faculty can now easily follow WebADS reporting format by logging scholarly activities using custom forms that you create and conveniently access the PubMed search from our suite
- Create various forms to document abstracts, grants, publications and poster presentations
- Skip the email blasts with automated email notifications for Scholarly Activity Forms
Program Director Review
Create and maintain resident portfolios for Semi-Annual Reviews by gathering a resident’s cumulative statistics. Configure data you would like included from the Work Hours Summary, Evaluation Comments, and many other areas of the software
- Facilitate Semi-Annual Program Director Reviews of resident and fellow performance
- Gather information from most modules to create centralized reports for the review process
Provide Administrative Oversight and Guidance
Streamline your resident data tracking process with conference attendance, materials distribution, patient history, and much more.
Work Hours
Track trainee work hours and easily visualize violation details. Configure rules according to your program, import the daily schedule to reduce redundant data entry, and include sign-off options that require trainees to verify a complete log.
- Take advantage of several reports to keep track of who is logging their hours and where any violations exist
- Enable automatic notifications to alert you when violations occur and to remind residents to log their hours
- View trends and other information that may be causing violations
Conferences
Allow administrators to seamlessly manage conferences. Rid yourself of conference pains by adding shared files for attendees, intelligently assigning speakers, sending email reminders, and distributing conference surveys.
- Assign speakers and send attendee and speaker notifications
- Distribute conference-quality surveys
- Generate attendance rosters
- Create reports detail attendance, speakers and surveys
- Configure conferences to populate duty hour logs when an attendee is marked present at a conference
Rotation Goals and Objectives
Attach required reading materials to rotations for automatic distribution to faculty and trainees prior to the start of their scheduled rotation.
- Set up email and home-page notifications to direct recipients to curriculum documents
- Recipients can confirm they’ve read and understood the rotation goals and objectives
Continuity Clinic
Allow trainees the ability to easily log visits to Continuity Clinic patients.
- Share patients between trainees and departments
- Provide administrators a centralized view of all Continuity Clinics and related information
Stay Informed of Resident Schedules
Whether maintaining rotation schedules, call schedules, staffing a clinic, or coordinating ER shifts, our suite provides efficient entry and distribution of all schedule information.
Rotation Scheduling
Manage yearly academic schedules and share them with everyone in your program. Create an unlimited number of schedule views to include rotators, rotation names, trainee years, and faculty, with easy print options once you’re finished.
- Effortlessly view information regarding resident rotations throughout the year and who will precept the rotation
- Coordinators can create custom views to show specific types of information such as first year residents or a single rotation
Desktop Utility
MedScheduler gives you the freedom to set up rotation and daily schedules offline and then synchronize the data when completed. Configure scheduling guidelines and set up schedules quickly using our convenient drag and drop functionality.
- MedScheduler automatically retrieves your current scheduling information from the department you're logged into so you don't need to worry about confusing imports
- Once you are connected to the internet you can synchronize MedScheduler with your online database to reflect your changes
Daily Schedule
Efficiently handle daily scheduling. Manage requests for days off or for specific assignments and automatically feed projected assignments onto your trainees duty hour logs for their approval.
- Schedule day-to-day activities like calls, clinics, and shifts
- Assignments can be configured to populate a resident or fellows duty hour logs as soon as they are put on the assignment
- Date and start/end time are automatically recorded but can be changed by the trainee to reflect accuracy
Manage Personnel
Enhance the overall efficiency of your onboarding process using checklists to automate the distribution and collection of materials, assign tasks to residents and fellows to be completed for employment. Also, track and advance progress resident progress to the next program year, to another program or to graduation. You can unlock the full potential of this module by opting for our Electronic Signature and rotating medical student onboarding premium features.
Onboarding
Automate the distribution and collection of documents and tasks that residents and fellows must complete before they begin their employment with your program, progressing to the next year in their program, moving to another program, or graduating.
- Build an interactive to-do list to share forms and documents with recipients
- Customize to-do lists for recipients based on special circumstances
- Send automatic notifications and reminders via email
- Include tasks that the recipient can mark complete, links to websites, document sharing and requests for data
- Improve contract signing efficiency our premium Electronic Signature feature
- Enable the onboarding of rotating medical students
Payroll
Efficiently keep track of payroll amounts and funding sources. Remain current with all payroll initiatives and keep in line with the finance office.
- View a list of the compensation paid to residents and fellows including their annual salary, meal or travel allowances, and stipends for Chief Residents or special grants
Credentialling
Ensure all certifications, licenses, and other endorsements are up to date. Training letters and immunizations can be stored and updated in a centralized place so you can remain compliant with accrediting bodies
- Visas
- Licenses and Certifications
- ABIM
- BLS
- ACLS
- Critical Care Medicine Certifications
- HIPAA Certifications
Appointments
Track appointments to take the pain out of managing yearly resident appointments. Seamlessly collect and distribute all contractual information for the duration of the appointment.
- Conveniently distribute a contract through checklists
- Create easy-to-configure contract templates