Velos Renal is a comprehensive, Renal Care Management information system, providing the following information infrastructure:

• Supports the caregiving process at the point of care.
• Captures and report information for both outcomes and business management.
• Improves caregiving by integrating user-defined treatment guidelines.

Velos Renal works the way caregivers think by capturing and delivering information as it is needed.  It is designed around patient interactions to actively support caregivers at the point of care, supporting all types of patient encounters related to:

• General Nephrology
• Pediatric Nephrology
• Hemodialysis
• Peritoneal Dialysis

Total Patient Management

Velos Renal takes a total care approach to managing patients.  This desktop system is optimized to capture and deliver information pertinent to managing renal care.Applications in Velos Renal handle patient, insurance and clinical information as well as orders and communications.

Velos Renal is designed for outcomes-based reporting. Data are expressed in terms to facilitate various outcomes analyses, including patient and patient-group comparisons, severity and case-mix adjustments, as well as care-process assessments.Clinical information, orders and notes are organized around clinical problems, enabling caregivers to better monitor and manage diabetes, hypertension and other coexisting conditions.

Nephrology

Velos Renal incorporates modules to handle adult and pediatric office visits.  Various renal and pre-ESRD assessment tools are built into the user interface, including

• Physical examination
• Pre-ESRD lab assessments
• Tracking of core ESRD indicates
• Psycho-social assessments
• Semi-automated personalized referral letters

Dialysis

Working with leading dialysis facilities, Velos has successfully mapped the process of managing hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis patients.  Its flexible interface provides all the tools for users to maintain or change the process according to their practice preferences. In all cases, Velos Renal preserves the data integrity to allow robust outcomes reporting and benchmarking comparisons.

Managing the Process

During a hemodialysis session, Velos Renal guides the nurse or technician through the entire caregiver process, from setup to discharge.  The system provides the user with quick access to information as it is needed.  Velos follows the course of administering a dialysis treatment through the following stages:

• Dialysis preparation
• Pre-dialysis parameters
• dialysis treatment(including data interface with most dialysis machines)
• Intra-dialysis medications
• Post-dialysis parameters
• Discharge codes and notes

At each stage, Velos provides key information from the patient’s medical record including core indicators, co-existing diseases, medications, etc.  While Velos provides the infrastructure for managing dialysis, the specifics of each step can be modified and maintained by specified users at each center.

Patient Assessment Guidelines

Velos is equipped with a guideline builder to create and modify assessment instruments to be called-up and used during patient encounters.  Guidelines can be logically constructed to manage question flow based on previous responses.  This sets up a vehicle to create on-line guidelines to support treatment pathways and collect information at the point of care.  Several assessment instruments are already built into Velos Renal and can be easily modified by specified users, including:

• Quality of life
• Pre-dialysis
• Intra-dialysis
• Periodic
• Complications

These and any newly created assessments are fully integrated into the dialysis process and are automatically called-up based on user- defined prompts.

Peritoneal Dialysis

Velos Renal handles peritoneal dialysis encounters in much the same way it handles hemodialysis encounters.  It uses a process-centered approach to managing training, routine checkups, complications and care planing.  Velos Renal also comes equipped with various peritoneal dialysis assessments, including:

• PET test
• Health assessments
• Compliance reports
• Complications

Process-Centered Patient Management

Quality care depends on both the process of caregiving activities and their outcomes.  Velos’ integrated analytic and reporting engine measures health and business outcomes and its guidelines builder provides the tools to improve the care process.  With these, Velos Renal becomes a powerful medium for continuous quality improvement of renal care.