Jun 28, 2021 | News, Verisma Company Updates
Verisma Wins GHIMA Champion Award
Serving the needs of GHIMA and the HIM profession
WASHINGTON, D.C., June 28, 2021 – Verisma, an industry leader in disclosure management technology and services to the US provider market, was honored to receive GHIMA’s Champion Award. Verisma has shown their commitment to furthering the HIM profession through training, CEU-credited webinars, expert-written blogs, a Pledge to Protect Program, and AHIMA national and state scholarship awards. GHIMA gives the Champion Award to individuals, groups, and corporations that have worked tirelessly to support the HIM profession, and Verisma is proud to be recognized as a leader in this area.
“The GHIMA board of directors unanimously voted to recognize Verisma with the GHIMA Champion Award. Verisma has been supportive of GHIMA during the pandemic by providing over one dozen education sessions for our members to earn CEUs at no cost or for GHIMA to incorporate into our virtual annual meeting. Verisma was extremely supportive of HIM students by contributing $5K in scholarship assistance to the AHIMA Foundation this past year. We value our partnership and thank Verisma for their continued commitment in helping GHIMA achieve its mission in serving the needs of our members,” stated Neisa Jenkins, Ed.D, RHIA, FAHIMA, President of GHIMA.
About Verisma: From our technology to our people and our partnerships, we believe our purpose is to protect truth and accuracy. Learn more about our disclosure management system at verisma.com.
Media Contact:
Davy Simanivanh
Phone (571) 205-6722
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Oct 11, 2020 | Compliance & Regulations, News, Verisma Company Updates
Verisma Adds to its Industry-Leading Online Suite of Self-Service Consumer Solutions
Extends convenience to attorneys
WASHINGTON, D.C., – October 14, 2020 – Verisma Systems, Inc., an industry leader in disclosure management technology and services to the US provider market, has announced the expansion of their ground-breaking Verisma Request App™ (VRA) technology. Verisma will now offer the same self-service capabilities, along with an expanded online request management portal, to 3rd party attorney organizations. Verisma’s expanded VRA platform and request management portal will provide attorneys with a remote, self-managed approach to electronic record ordering, tracking, payment, and delivery. This change will enhance efficiency and compliance, result in a more satisfied requestor experience, and eliminate the stress on providers of a paper-driven manual request process.
Benefits of VRA Attorney include:
- Up to a 50% reduction in total request turn-around-times with elimination of a paper driven request mail process, a manual paper request intake and logging process, and a manual delivery of paper record copies.
- Up to a 30% reduction in labor, supplies and postage costs with less need of a manual paper request intake, manual paper record copy distribution, and manual call support process.
- Strengthened compliance through advanced e-request/e-delivery capabilities significantly reducing common manual paper request entry and paper record copy delivery errors.
- Improved requestor satisfaction with ability to self-manage the entire request experience online while receiving record copies faster than ever before.
About Verisma
From our technology to our people and our partnerships, we believe our purpose is to protect truth and accuracy. Learn more about our disclosure management system at verisma.com.
Media Contact:
Davy Simanivanh
Phone (571) 205-6722
dsimanivanh@verisma.com
Jun 16, 2020 | News, Verisma Company Updates
Verisma is excited to announce its continued expansion across the country with the grand opening of three new Regional Training and Support Centers of Excellence in Florida, Ohio, and Wisconsin to further support the demand and rapid growth from new and existing clients. These strategically placed regional offices led by our expert team of Client Operations Directors, professional trainers, HR management and oversight teams will enhance our comprehensive training and national operations management efforts, and provide even greater consistency and reliability in service quality and outcomes to our clients.
Verisma has always been dedicated to collaborative partnership, and these new hands-on training centers, in addition to our New York, Virginia and Colorado corporate locations, will help us continue to deliver on that commitment and our promise to putting patients first.
Feb 19, 2018 | News, Uncategorized, Verisma Company Updates
Move Made to Accommodate Rapid Growth
ALEXANDRIA, VA. – Feb. 19, 2018 – Verisma Systems, Inc., opened expanded offices in Syracuse, NY, on Thursday, Feb. 15, to accommodate recent and anticipated growth. The 13,000-square-foot facility currently houses 48 employees, with about 40 additional hires planned in upcoming months.
Verisma is the premier provider of technology-assisted disclosure management services and solutions, and posted 60 percent growth in its new client roster last year. Employees in the new Syracuse office include release-of-information (ROI) specialists, as well as customer service and quality assurance professionals.
“We are seeing a significant shift in how health care approaches disclosure management and release of information,” said Verisma CEO Marty McKenna. “Compliance and quality are increasingly important, and leaders realize that automated solutions, like those Verisma offers, can increase efficiency and accuracy compared to a historically manual process. We are adding highly qualified staff to ensure our clients achieve the outcomes they are looking for.”
The company’s flagship product, Verisma Release Manager™ (VRM), delivers next-generation technology with highly trained teams of ROI, IT, legal and business experts to facilitate the secure electronic exchange of patient information. It features integrated HIPAA guidance and compliance review support to significantly reduce the chance of errors, as well as an advanced workflow engine, and a comprehensive analytics dashboard for full oversight, transparency and accountability into the ROI process. It also includes Verisma Request App, the industry’s first on-line, self-service tool designed to improve the overall request experience for patients and their representatives.
About Verisma
Verisma is a health information technology provider focused on delivering unparalleled Disclosure Management solutions to the healthcare industry. The company’s flagship automation system, Verisma® Release Manager (VRM), is utilized by well-known healthcare organizations nationwide. VRM automates workflow to improve turnaround times, reduce errors and drive down costs – effectively automating medical records release while delivering comprehensive release audit capabilities. It is the only release technology with integrated HIPAA guidance and compliance review support. For additional information, please visit our website at www.verisma.com, call 866-390-7404 or email solutions@verisma.com.
Media Contact:
Elizabeth Glaser
Phone (770) 317-8831
Elizabeth@verisma.com
Dec 19, 2017 | News, Uncategorized, Verisma Company Updates
Disclosure Management leader expands footprint; builds development, quality, service teams
ALEXANDRIA, VA. – Dec. 19, 2017 – Verisma Systems, Inc. will post a 60 percent increase in new client acquisitions for 2017, according to CEO Marty McKenna. The company likewise reports 98 percent client retention.
To support ongoing growth and ensure an exceptional client experience, Verisma significantly increased staff this year.
“It has been an incredible year for us,” McKenna says. “We are grateful to our long-standing clients for their loyalty and excited to welcome so many new organizations—including several large, complex health systems – to the Verisma family.”
The growth can be attributed to Verisma’s commitment to technology-assisted disclosure management across the health enterprise, McKenna adds. “We’ve automated and added quality control to a highly manual process. Our technology streamlines the release-of-information process, supports a stronger revenue cycle, and increases both staff and patient satisfaction.”
The company’s flagship product, Verisma Release Manager™ (VRM), delivers next-generation technology with highly trained teams of release of information (ROI), IT, legal and business experts to facilitate the secure electronic exchange of patient information. It features integrated HIPAA guidance and compliance review support, as well as an advanced workflow engine, quality assurance to reduce errors, and an analytics dashboard for full transparency and accountability into the ROI process.
Fueling the company’s success this year was the expansion of Verisma Request Application™ (VRA), a self-service solution that enables patients and proxies to request medical records online, and the introduction of Verisma Spotlight™. Enhanced VRA functionality allows internal requestors, commercial health plans and attorneys to benefit from convenient self-service options. Spotlight helps clients respond effectively to requests for protected health information that might pose a risk to their organizations – court-ordered subpoenas, for example, which often represent tight turnaround times.
To support its rapid growth, Verisma expanded its development, client services and quality assurance teams in recent months as well. The company anticipates adding 55 percent more associates by early 2018.
Verisma’s progress has likewise enabled the company to support clients by engaging with industry leaders, adds McKenna. Linda Kloss MA, RHIA, FAHIMA, president of Kloss Strategic Advisors and former CEO of AHIMA, serves at the company’s strategic advisor, for example, and Deven McGraw, former deputy director for health information privacy at the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR), was featured as the keynote speaker at Verisma’s Disclosure Management Summit in May 2017.
“These relationships allow us to share insights into industry trends,” McKenna says. “Plus, they open doors for clients to learn about best practices and how to earn a seat at the table when their organizations consider the future of health information management.”
About Verisma
Verisma is a health information technology provider focused on delivering unparalleled Disclosure Management solutions to the healthcare industry. The company’s flagship automation system, Verisma® Release Manager (VRM), is utilized by well-known healthcare organizations nationwide. VRM automates workflow to improve turnaround times, reduce errors and drive down costs – effectively automating medical records release while delivering comprehensive release audit capabilities. It is the only release technology with integrated HIPAA guidance and compliance review support. For additional information, please visit our website at www.verisma.com, call 866-390-7404 or email solutions@verisma.com.
Media Contact:
Elizabeth Glaser
Phone (770) 317-8831
Elizabeth@verisma.com
Sep 13, 2016 | Health Information Solutions, Verisma Company Updates
Verisma Request App (VRA) Simplifies the Medical Records Request Process for Patients
Verisma, the leader in release of information (ROI) automation systems for the healthcare industry, today announced the launch of an industry first – the Verisma Request App (VRA) – a self-service online request solution targeted to the specific needs of not just patients, but all types of requestors. VRA gives healthcare providers an additional tool for improving patient satisfaction by making the medical records request process available 24/7. Ultimately VRA will facilitate not only automated requests but also automated fulfillment of requests.
Verisma is taking a phased approach to launching the new app. VRA Phase I focuses on patient access, specifically requests for medical records by patients and patient representatives. Via the hospital’s website or patient portal, patients and their representatives complete an intuitive online authorization form that replaces the current process of completing the form by hand and mailing it, faxing it, or delivering it to the provider. From the provider’s perspective, VRA helps drive traffic to the patient portal.
One of the challenges with paper authorization forms is they don’t educate the patients and their representatives about what they are signing. Patients and their representatives may not understand what it means to authorize the release of sensitive information such as that relating to mental health and substance abuse, HIV/AIDS, genetic testing, or STDs. VRA helps providers mitigate this risk by including easy-to-understand, customizable descriptions with hyperlinks to additional information.
Verisma continues to strengthen its reputation as the industry leader in disclosure management security and compliance with the introduction of VRA. VRA is architected for 100% compliance with HIPAA, the Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act (ESIGN) and the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act (UETA). It requires multi-factor authentication and digital signature without making the processes burdensome to the patient or the patient’s representative.
Once the patient or their representative submits the online form, the data automatically creates a transaction in Verisma Release Manager (VRM) – the company’s flagship ROI Automation offering – thereby eliminating a significant number of steps performed on the front-end by the Release of Information Specialist. Since VRM and VRA are EHR-neutral, the request is easily fulfilled regardless of where the records reside (current EHR, legacy EHR, paper, or off-site storage).
“Verisma is innovating release of information from the patient’s perspective,” explains Andrew McManus, Senior Vice President of Verisma. “With VRA, hospitals will experience substantial ROI workflow efficiencies and greater productivity for their HIM departments. VRA significantly decreases the time, and in some cases the costs, for patients to receive their records. Overall, VRA is an automated medical records request process that maintains compliance and security, and ultimately improves requestor, patient, and provider satisfaction.”
Additional features include:
- The ability for patients to request documents from any dates of service regardless of the source of the information
- Online guidance embedded in the form, ensuring accuracy and completeness
- Customized branding ensuring continuity within the provider’s website or patient portal
“VRA represents a big step forward for patients seeking greater access to their medical records beyond the data points available in EHR portals,” states Linda Kloss, RHIA, a health information thought leader and member of the Verisma Strategic Advisory Board. “It is also a big advance for ROI management. Productivity and cost control are essential in ROI today, but they can’t be achieved at the expense of compliance short cuts.”
About Verisma
Verisma is a health information technology provider focused on delivering unparalleled Release of Information (ROI) solutions to the healthcare industry. The company’s flagship ROI Automation System, Verisma® Release Manager (VRM), is utilized by well-known health care organizations nationwide. VRM automates workflow to improve turnaround times, reduce errors, and drive down costs – effectively automating medical records release while delivering comprehensive release audit capabilities. It is the only release technology with integrated HIPAA guidance and compliance review support. For additional information, please visit our website at www.verisma.com, call 866-390-7404, email solutions@verisma.com or visit us at the AHIMA National Convention in booth #2213 for a VRA demo.
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