OVERVIEW
Chronic conditions such as diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular diseases, and COPD require consistent follow-ups, lifestyle guidance, and adherence to treatment protocols. Traditional methods of managing these patients rely heavily on periodic visits and manual data collection, which often lead to missed interventions and poor health outcomes.
Chronic Care Management (CCM) provides a structured way of tracking and supporting patients with long-term illnesses. By integrating CCM workflows within a modern Care Management platform, healthcare providers can reduce administrative burden, personalize care plans, and proactively manage patient health. This case study highlights how our solution transformed chronic care delivery for a U.S.-based provider.
CLIENT
The client is a leading care management service provider catering to small hospitals and independent medical practices across the United States. Their mission was to deliver superior patient outcomes through structured care programs, but their existing approach lacked scalability and efficiency. They wanted to digitize their CCM workflows to improve care delivery for patients with chronic conditions.
Challenges
- Manual and Resource-Intensive Follow-ups: Care managers had to call or visit patients regularly to collect health updates. This consumed time and resources while leaving room for missed interactions.
- Tracking Multiple Chronic Conditions: Many patients suffered from multiple conditions (e.g., diabetes and hypertension). Without digital tools, it was nearly impossible to track overlapping care needs and coordinate treatment effectively.
- No Structured Care Plans: Care plans were loosely documented and often not shared consistently with patients. This led to confusion, poor adherence, and a lack of accountability.
- Low Patient Engagement: Patients often forgot appointments, medications, or lifestyle changes, as they lacked reminders and consistent check-ins.
- Care Team Overload: With rising patient volumes, care managers were overwhelmed by manual administrative work, leaving them with less time for direct patient support.
OUR SOLUTION
We designed a comprehensive Care Management platform with CCM-focused features that automated workflows and improved patient engagement:
- Customizable care plans for each patient, with specific goals, milestones, and interventions designed for chronic conditions like diabetes or hypertension.
- Automated scheduling and reminders, ensuring patients receive timely follow-ups.
- An alert mechanism for missed check-ins or critical health triggers, allowing care managers to intervene early.
- Task management tools for distributing responsibilities among care teams, ensuring accountability, and efficient use of resources.
- Seamless integration with the Care Management Portal, giving providers real-time insights into patient progress.
Benefits
- Streamlined Chronic Care Workflows: Automated reminders and alerts streamlined scheduling and reduced manual effort so care teams could focus on meaningful interactions with patients.
- Higher Patient Adherence: Patients are more likely to follow prescribed routines due to structured care plans, digital reminders, and consistent follow-ups.
- Timely Interventions: Real-time tracking and proactive monitoring allowed providers to detect early warning signs and address them before they escalated into severe issues.
- Improved Clinical Outcomes: Patients experienced fewer hospitalizations and complications due to better management of chronic conditions.
- Scalability in Care Delivery: The client manages a larger patient base without needing a proportional increase in staff.
- Optimized Resource Utilization: Care managers had more time for personalized care, while administrative overheads dropped significantly.
Tech Stack
- Programming Language: Java
- Backend Framework: Spring Boot
- Message Broker: RabbitMQ
- Frontend Framework: ReactJS
- Authentication & Security: JWT authentication, HIPAA-compliant
- Data Persistence: JPA (Java Persistence API)
- Database: PostgreSQL
- Cloud Services: AWS / Azure
- Architecture: Microservices
- Device Integrations: Tenovi, SmartMeter, Transtek, Validic
- EHR Integrations: Redox, Athena
- Deployment: Docker containerization
- Product Model: SaaS-based
About Emorphis
Emorphis Technologies is a world class software development and solutions company which truly believes in “Innovation in motion”. Delivery innovation on the go at accelerated pace has been our success mantra till date. Over the years we have provided value to our clients in the field of enterprise mobility, cloud, IoT, backend development, Big Data Analytics, and Block Chain.
We serve industries ranging from unicorns, and startups to large multinationals in the healthcare, telecommunications, fintech, retail and publishing industry. Our go to market software products – iStatement, iPublisher and iBuggy have proved our metal with positive beneficial customer testimonials. We help our client in successful product development, consulting services and testing (manual & automated).
We have profound experience & expertise on various technologies like .Net, J2EE, PHP, iOS, Android and Cloud Computing viz. Amazon Web services (AWS), Software QA & testing (Manual & Automation). Our designed products are cloud ready and can be readily deployed on AWS/Azure cloud infrastructure.
Our pivot on engineering innovation and R&D helps quicken time-to-market, ensuring high quality at economies of scale, delivering cult competency for the global marketplace. We ensure that your ideas, concepts and requirements are backed by brilliant execution at our end. Having said that we extend end-to-end ownership of product/application design, development and deployment.
