What Makes PicassoMD Different

In our previous blog post we explored PicassoMD’s origins and our “Why,” the reason we do what we do. In this post we focus on our “How,” examining how our model for clinical decision support, referral management, and care coordination differentiates our platform, leading to higher provider utilization and better patient outcomes.

For any tool to be widely adopted by providers, it must be designed with their day-to-day functions in mind and make a provider’s job easier rather than just add one more task to an already saturated day. The technology must be readily accessible, simple to use, and have minimal impact on their workflow.

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For any tool to be widely adopted by providers, it must be designed with their day-to-day functions in mind and make a provider’s job easier

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With that goal, PicassoMD designed our clinical decision support to be initiated AND completed within the confines of a normal patient visit. Primary Care Providers (PCPs) can be connected with a specialist in under a minute and get their consultative questions answered while the patient is still in the office. This is revolutionary for providers who are accustomed to having to wait hours or days to get feedback from a specialist.

In the vast majority of cases, PicassoMD connects PCPs with specialists in their local area. This is critical because specialist care often requires testing and procedures which cannot be completed through telemedicine. If follow-up care is required, PCPs can refer patients to a local specialist through PicassoMD and together they can coordinate the patient’s care.

By combining clinical decision support, referral management to local specialists, and care coordination, PicassoMD offers providers a complete solution not found elsewhere.

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By combining clinical decision support, referral management to local specialists, and care coordination, PicassoMD offers providers a complete solution not found elsewhere

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As a direct result of this model, we are able to make an impact on our nation’s healthcare system along several key dimensions:

1. Enable patients’ immediate access to specialists, via their PCPs, at no cost, including Medicaid and uninsured patients who typically have the hardest time accessing specialist care
2. Facilitate streamlined access of PCPs to specialist care in rural settings
3. Create more specialist appointment availability by eliminating unnecessary referrals
4. Get patients that need appointments with specialists in faster, with a median time between referral and appointment of 9 days, versus 4-6 weeks nationally
5. Improve care coordination between PCPs and specialists by providing an open communication channel for providers, even across unaffiliated practices

By combining our “Why” with a novel and differentiated “How,” PicassoMD is poised to quickly change the standard of care and accelerate the transition to value-based care.

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