Virtua Health will use Canopy UM to automate the authorization and denial management process with the payor community for its inpatient population.
Virtua Health’s case management department will also begin using Canopy CM to develop a continuum-based approach to case management. Ultimately, Virtua believes Canopy will be an essential tool to create a corporate case management program in order to integrate care and services across the Virtua Health system. Because Canopy is a Web-based system, Virtua Health’s case managers and other members of the patient’s care team will be able access the system both in the hospital and in the community.
David C. Kibbe, president and CEO of Canopy Systems gave his reaction to the press: We are excited to work with Virtua Health to implement Canopy UM and CM across their system.
Canopy is designed to assist organizations such as Virtua Health who are committed to improving the health of their community through their care coordination programs. Since Canopy is a Web-based system that interfaces with the hospitals information systems, Canopy can begin with managing the inpatient population and then follow targeted patients as they move across Virtua Health’s continuum of care.
