Salar
Salar, Inc. specializes in providing comprehensive electronic clinical documentation and charge capture solutions to the health care industry. Salar’s suite of products is designed to transform traditional physician paper-driven documentation into electronic format to boost clinical productivity, operational efficiency and care team collaboration. Founded in 1999 and headquartered in Baltimore, Salar provides solutions to many of the nation’s leading hospitals.1
Company Overview
Salar's unique approach allows physicians to replicate their familiar paper-driven documentation into electronic format. Physicians design their own documentation forms and then can drive multiple value-added activities from it like: team collaboration, patient handoff, hospital billing, MS-DRG assignment, medication reconciliation. Clients include John Hopkins Hospital, John Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, University of Massachusetts Memorial Health Care, University of Pittsburg Medical Center and George Washington University Hospital.2
Product Overview
At the core of Salar's product suite is its inpatient documentation system, TeamNotes™. TeamNotes eliminates paper-based documentation and provides clinicians real-time patient information to expedite their workflow. Using a wirelessly enabled tablet PC, desktop PC or laptop, providers have access to all the information they need at the point of care, ensuring improved patient safety though better communication and continuity among medical staff.
TeamRelay™ automates and streamlines patient handoff to further improve patient safety and treatment. TeamRelay generates “handoff lists” that are pre-populated in real-time with patient data, problem lists, and to-do tasks taken from the most recent patient documentation and physician notes.
To facilitate real-time review of physician documentation, Salar’s productivity suite includes TeamQuery™. Through remote concurrent coding capabilities, hospital billing departments can review individual physician progress notes as they are created and immediately query physicians to request additional information. This process allows hospitals to increase inpatient revenues and management teams to focus on cases approaching target discharge dates.
TeamNotes
Completing the product suite is Salar's TAP Charge Capture™ (TAP). This application optimizes physician billing. TAP can be installed as a standalone product or in conjunction with TeamNotes. Together these tools offer optimal efficiency resulting in 100% accountability between services documented and services billed.
Salar’s TeamNotes can be embedded into your EMR system to address a variety of documentation needs. TeamNotes Embedded is ideally suited for basic consent forms to advanced clinical documentation notes. Simple forms can include patient demographic information and barcodes for quick scanning and archiving. More advanced forms can import data from external systems allowing you to facilitate CPT coding, integrated clinical data, such as laboratory results, medications and allergies and sophisticated workflow features designed for the healthcare environment. Truly dynamic forms allows users and analysts to capture data elements from forms and report on information in real time, create custom form handlers and link to external items. All of these functions are offered as a “natural extension” of your own Electronic Medical Record eliminating the need to toggle between applications, install redundant systems, or manage multiple interfaces.
Software developers may quickly integrate electronic clinical forms into applications with TeamNotes Embedded. Create and deploy electronic enterprise forms for consent applications, clinical documentation, admission packets and more. TeamNotes Embedded includes CPT coding capabilities, and can be used with voice recognition, handwriting and/or discrete data elements.
Additional features include availability as a .NET component or a web-based Active X control, flexibility to design and deploy in any electronic form, freedom to use integrated ADT and clinical data.2
