Benefits
Benefits of cdmNet
cdmNet has benefits for all users:
Saves time: cdmNet can more than double practice productivity by
- Automatically generating individualised best practice GP Management Plans (GPMPs), including plans involving comorbidities
- Automatically sharing Team Care Arrangements (TCAs) and facilitating electronic communication between the GP and care team, eliminating the overhead required for two way communication and collaboration across the care team
- Automatically tracking patient progress against the care plan, enabling GPMP and TCA Reviews, and Annual Cycles of Care, to be automatically generated
Eliminates paperwork: cdmNet can dramatically reduce the time and cost of administration by
- Automatically producing, electronically signing, distributing and storing all documentation, including GPMPs, TCAs, Allied Health Referral Forms, Home Medicines Review Referrals, GPMP and TCA Reviews, and Annual Cycle of Care documents
- Automatically sending SMS and email reminders and recalls to patients for appointments and reviews
Simplifies collaboration: cdmNet removes the overhead of collaboration with other care providers and the patient by
- Automatically generating an Electronic Health Record that is shared with the care team and patient
- Automatically sharing GPMPs, TCAs, and Reviews with the care team and the patient
- Providing a shared record for recording patient progress notes and appointment details
- Allowing update of the Electronic Health Record and clinical measurements by the care team and the patient
- Facilitating easy electronic communication among the care team
Improves outcomes: cdmNet signficantly improves adherence to evidence-based guidelines by
- Bringing best practice guidelines to the point of care
- Including Allied Health services, specialist services, and Home Medicines Reviews in TCAs as determined by best practice guidelines
- Automatically tracking progress against the care plan, ensuring timely follow up and intervention
- Automatically reminding patients to make planned appointments in a timely way
- Automatically generating Patient Views of the care plan to assist with patient self management
- Automatically alerting the GP and care team of upcoming or overdue tasks, including GPMP and TCA Reviews and Annual Cycles of Care
Increases net revenues: cdmNet can substantially multiply net revenues from chronic disease management services by
- Allowing the practice to manage systematically their entire chronic disease population, greatly increasing the number of Medicare CDM services provided
- Greatly reducing the time required per Medicare CDM service
- Automating the generation of reviews, greatly increasing the number of GPMP and TCA Reviews and Annual Cycles of Care services provided
- Including appropriate medicine reviews as part of individualised care plans, substantially increasing Home Medicines Review services provided
- Enabling more patients to be on care plans, generating more Practice Nurse Incentive Payments, Practice Incentive Payments, and Service Incentive Payments for the practice
Reduces risk: cdmNet tracks patient care and facilitates Medicare compliance by
- Ensuring that all Medicare process requirements are met
- Providing a complete audit trail of GP and care team activities
- Helping ensure compliance with best practice guidelines, including timely review and follow up
- Through automatic patient reminders and tracking of patient appointments, assisting the GP to meet duty of care obligations,
Maximises flexibility: cdmNet works in any practice environment by
- Supporting solo practices and large practices with shared or individual patient registers
- Supporting care management activities by either practice nurses and GPs or GPs alone
- Supporting any practice workflow, including systematic recall or ad hoc patient visits
- Allowing access anywhere, anytime by all members of the care team, including the patient
Disease coverage
In collaboration with Monash University’s Department of General Practice, the range of chronic conditions included in cdmNet is continually being expanded.
cdmNet currently includes treatment guidelines for the following chronic diseases, both individually and as comorbidities with one another:
- Diabetes
- Osteoarthritis
- Coronary heart disease
- Chronic heart failure
- Stroke
- Chronic kidney disease
- Asthma
- Chronic low back pain
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- Depression (as a comorbidity)
cdmNet also allows a GP or practice nurse to create customised care plans for other conditions or particular patient needs.
cdmNet supports all the key processes involved in the management of chronic disease: from care plan creation, sharing and collaboration with the care team, to monitoring of actions against the care plan, through to follow up and review.