Outpatient Rehab

The LIFEware^SM System is an outpatient outcomes tracking and reporting system that documents functional outcomes achieved in outpatient settings, including:

• Outpatient rehab clinics
• Physical therapy practices
• Standalone private practice sites or clinics
• Pain and wound centers
• Cardiac rehab centers
• Pulmonary rehab centers
• Adult day service centers

Outcomes data is provided for individual patients, groups of patients, and overall program performance. Its real-time reporting capabilities and regional and national benchmarks help programs supplement their Medicare documentation and fulfill accreditation requirements.

Additionally, the LIFEware^SM System provides the following:

• A reliable measure of your program’s effectiveness
• Patient progress reports that can help justify additional visits
• Marketing data for third-party payers and physicians
• An objective way to evaluate and detect clinician performance or variation
• Reports that therapists can use to help create short-term and long-term patient goals
• Conversion of scores to the CMS Severity Modifiers and recommended ratings for meeting G-Code and severity code modifier requirements
• Custom form creation

Clinical Sensitivity

The comprehensive LIFEware^SM System covers a wide range of musculoskeletal, neurological, cardiopulmonary, cognitive and other medical conditions. Unlike other outcome products, the LIFEware^SM System allows subscribers to choose from a variety of impairment-specific tools or create their own custom assessment forms by choosing from more than 100 measures. This flexibility improves the sensitivity of the tool, allowing it to detect even the slightest change in a patient’s condition. Measures include:

• Body Movement and Control
• Physical Limitations
• Pain
• Patient Satisfaction
• Cognitive
• FIM® Instrument
• Joint specific (shoulder, knee, hand, ankle)
• Range of Motion
• Expression (General Abilities)
• Vestibular

IT Flexibility

The LIFEware® software is a robust, Internet-based application. Users are not required to load or maintain special software on their PCs and implementation requires little setup time. Easy-to-complete assessment forms are entered online and online patient data entry is available. As soon as data is entered, the application provides users with endless reporting options, including:

• Detailed patient reports that help pinpoint specific treatment needs
• Patient progress reports with comparative expectations for similar patients
• Program management reports that allow you to break out patients by individual physicians and third-party payers, Workers’ Comp, etc.
• Individual clinician outcomes with stratification by condition
• Quarterly comparative reports with summary, detail, trend and demographic information
• Customized quarterly reports that can be stratified by age and employment status
• Claims based Outcome Assessment report converting LIFEware® scores to CMS impairment percentages and CMS modifiers
• Corporate and multiple-site reporting
• Exporting capabilities for dynamic and custom reporting needs

Reliability

The LIFEware^SM System was developed specifically for outpatient treatment settings and built on the results of careful clinical and statistical analysis. It is based on a 2-year study of 7,000 rehabilitation assessments. To ensure the tool’s sensitivity, its developers used a statistical tool called Rasch analysis. This tool calibrates patient responses so that even slight improvements in a patient’s condition can be detected and reported. Currently, the LIFEware® database includes over one million assessments. Using the LIFEware^SM System is a very simple and easy way to consistently, validly and reliably measure your treatment outcomes.

A LIFEware^SM System subscription includes:

• The LIFEware^SM System Clinical Guide
• The LIFEware^SM System Software Guide
• The LIFEware^SM System Quarterly Report Guide
• LIFEware® data collection forms
• Access to the LIFEware® software, including data entry and reporting
• Quarterly comparative reports
• A 2-hour phone consultation for initial technical training
• Technical support
• Report interpretation support

If you are interested in learning more about our subscription package, please contact our sales department at 716-817-7856 or subscriptioninfo@udsmr.org.