Sigmund Software, LLC

Sigmund™ provides a comprehensive set of performance improvement, quality assurance and outcome management utilities. The software automates tracking of all compliance issues and provides full support for meeting your specific regulatory as well as accreditation requirements. Sigmund Software uses technology, automation and innovative thinking to improve the quality and management of clinical documentation and organizational performance improvement. Sigmund provides organizationally defined quality assurance measures, workflow, monitoring mechanisms and task assignments. These tools can mirror payer, local, state, HIPAA, CARF, JCAHO, COA and regulations and standards.

• Regulatory and Accreditation Tools
• House all local, state, HIPAA CARF, JCAHO, COA regulations and standards within the application.
• Create, update and review internal policies and procedures
• Make regulatory authority and accreditation agency guidelines, policies and procedures available online to all staff
• Map policies, procedures, logs, forms and process to the standards and regulations that they satisfy
• Conduct ongoing reviews for regulatory and accreditation compliance through a structure process including review dates, categorizations, statuses, comments etc.
• Assign, perform, score and report on comprehensive, user-definable chart reviews
• Organizationally defined documentation review process supports supervisor reviews, co-signatures etc.
• Organizationally defined alerts notify personnel of vital information regarding specific patients and/or referrals
• Establish clinical documentation requirements by program
• Demonstrate and ensure compliance with regulations and guidelines through system settings, work flow options and security.
• Record complaints, critical incidents, physical plant and environmental logs, infection control and emergency drills
• Record and monitor staff credentials, job descriptions, performance evaluations and training and associated expiration dates
• Accessibility of aggregated data, reports and clinical markers provides important clinical management opportunities and meets performance improvement requirements
• Organized structure and legibility in all parts of the patient's chart, including history, medication list, allergies, and lab results, facilitate decision-making, allow coordination of care, and reduce errors
• HIPAA Compliance Suite
• Tracks all HIPAA requirements, including: Privacy Notices, Disclosures, Alternative Communications and Amendments etc.
• Model all of your HIPAA forms and assign for task completion
• Employ specialized logs to track completion of forms, status of complaints, requests etc.
• Associate forms and assessments with patients and contacts
• Treatment Releases
• Consents
• User-Defined Forms
• Track form statuses, dates of force and electronic signatures
• Easily add or view all active, expired, incomplete or rescinded forms.
• Forms date and time stamped to provide users with real time updates to specific form status
• Flexibility to manipulate forms on the fly  without affecting global templates
• True integration allows users to automatically import necessary client information from the system to forms, notes and summaries to expedite the completion of the tasks and eliminate dual entry.
• Administer a comprehensive, role-based, HIPAA compliant security schema
• Eliminates potential breaches or violations based on unsecured or misplaced paper documents
• Clinical Documentation Compliance and Chart Reviews
• Assign, perform, score and report on comprehensive, user-definable chart reviews
• Establish clinical documentation requirements by program
• Automatically assign clinical documentation responsibilities based on staff roles, system events (ex. Therapist must complete treatment plan within 7 days following admission, physician must complete assessment within 1 day when this appointment is delivered)
• Evaluate timeliness of performance of documentation responsibilities
• Establish electronic signature and authentication requirements fore all documents
• Organizationally defined documentation review process supports supervisor reviews, co-signatures etc.
• Organizationally defined alerts notify personnel of vital information regarding specific patients and/or referrals
• Automatically generate narrative summaries for admission, discharge, or progress review for all patients based on information that has already been captured in the medical record
• Quickly filter clinical documents such as progress notes by  author, type, date, service and  keywords
• Environmental Management
• Model your entire physical plant including companies, sites (campuses), buildings, rooms and off site locations
• Maintain logs of physical plant inspections, work orders, repairs etc.
• Maintain logs of emergency drills, critical incidents, hazards, infection control etc.
• Write to logs when specific forms or events are recorded in the system
• Logs support a well-organized review process
• Link forms and logs to policies and procedures to meet the demands of regulatory and accreditation guidelines

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