About PolicyPLUS™
Effective policy and compliance management is an ongoing challenge, particularly in times of rapid change and with large numbers of staff located over multiple sites. Creating and maintaining well written, relevant policy and procedures helps to maintain productivity, reduce liability, improve consistency and is a critical component of maintaining regulatory compliance.
Quality First Management Solution’s flagship product PolicyPLUS™
is a compliance and online policy management Software as a Solution (SaaS).
This means you get all the benefits of a hosted solution:
- No hardware to purchase
- No IT staff is needed to support or install the application
- We handle all the backups of your data
- It is a secure, reliable enterprise application that is designed
to streamline document workflow and manage document lifecycle.
Features include:
- Scan and store. Converts existing printed documents into digital format and
loads them in the system. Handles any document format.
- Policy Formatting. Standardizes policies using a template format or can adapt
to an existing format.
- Lifecycle management. Ability to add, remove, archive, and update policies.
Policy review alerts and notifications (via email)
- Full multi-criteria search functionality.
- Document groups. Group related policies into context based group settings for
easier access and distribution. Collaborate on policies and procedures using
assignments.
- Multi-level review. Streamline the review process. Review and collaborate on
policy updates online in MS Word format. Tracks reviews by committees, review
groups and individual reviewers.
- Offline Work. Download and work on your policies offline at your leisure.
- Acknowledges policies are read.
- Document control history. Traces the timeline and history of all policy
versions from creation to current release.
- Secure Access. Restricts unauthorized staff from adding and/or revising
documents.
- Policy Testing. Facilitates improved quality of care by ascertaining staff
knowledge of policies and procedures. Quiz your staff on their understanding of
policies to maintain compliance.
- Policy Renewal. Keeps policies up to date by scheduling of policy renewals.
Regulatory regulation and accrediting standard (e.g. Joint Commission, AAAHC)
referencing. Tags and tracks policies that are related to regulations or
accrediting standards for ease in review preparation.
PolicyPLUS™ was developed from the ground up with a targeted
focus on a healthcare organization's compliance needs, sensitivity to
costs and resource. Each feature has been developed based off of the
needs healthcare organizations have expressed in working through the
same challenges that you are probably facing with respect to policy
and procedure and compliance management. Healthcare organizations will
appreciate the easy to use application, legal compliance and
accreditation benefits, ease of implementation and low cost.
PolicyPLUS™ harnesses the power of the Internet to:
- Allow access 24/7
- Increase patient safety - makes getting policies in a timely
manner and ensuring that all obsolete and duplicate policies are
removed from circulation. The end result: a higher standard of
care for your patients.
- Disseminate new documents and document changes across provider
sites and organizational units
- Reduce printing costs
- Increase employee compliance: Your workers will know your
policies.
- Track and archive policy changes
- Track and notify provider credentialing source document
expirations and next credentialing cycle
- Reduce risk and liability
- No hardware to purchase
Who Needs PolicyPLUS™?
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