Optimus has acquired OPIE software and its integration is under way. 

OPIE Software is the Orthotic and Prosthetic industry standard for complete practice management in orthotics and prosthetics.

OPIE provides:

• clinical management forms
• workflow
• automated work-in-progress tracking,
• fabrication management
• purchasing
  
• many other features!

OPIE also breaks new ground in billing and collections, offering an innovative tasks system to streamline the process, and partnering with ZirMed, a leading clearinghouse, to get our electronic claims paid faster. 

The OPIE Suite is the culmination of many years of research, development and testing.

It seamlessly connects:

• practitioners
• technicians
• administrative staff and
• billing staff

OPIE manages workflow processes and creates complete electronic medical records.

The OPIE Suite will change the way we do business, maximizing efficiency to combat declining reimbursements, increasing compliance, and leaving us more time and energy to focus on taking care of our patients.

In addition, OPIE has partnered with Ohio Willow Wood in integrating Omega Tracer which is the CAD/CAM system that Optimus utilizes to design prosthetic socket interfaces.  The OPIE Practice Management Suite allows OMEGA Tracer patient files to be added to OPIE's digital patient records thus reducing double-entry and simplifying file management.

OPIE has also partnered with Orthocare Innovations in integrating the Compas™ system (Computerized Prosthesis Alignment System) functionality into OPIE.  More specifically, the goal is to integrate clinical-outcomes data collection, analysis, and reporting capabilities from the Compas system into the OPIE Electronic Medical Records software. 

"Payers are requiring data-driven, objective evidence in support of payment for O&P clinical care and technologies," commented John Brandt. "By capturing clinical data from Compas directly into patient electronic medical records, this partnership will offer Optimus optimum solutions to meet the demands of our payers, while also improving clinical outcomes."

2009  Optimus Prosthetics offered 5 courses in 2009 to 30 therapy groups representing more than 350 therapists. 

If you are a therapist and your group has not scheduled the 5th and final course for 2009, give us a call!

1. Immediate Post-Op Modalities (for transtibial level amputations)
2. Transtibial Prosthetics
3. Transfemoral Prosthetics
4. Amputee Mobility Predictor
5. Gait Training and Deviations

2010  As mentioned in the last two months' eNewsletters, Optimus will be offering 4 courses in 2010 available on a quarterly basis.  You can call us to schedule the 2010 courses when your group is ready to do so. 

The following are the topics for 2010 which will have new approval numbers (and will be video-enhanced):

1. Overview of Prosthetics (includes an overview of all levels of amputations with emphasis on upper extremity, partial foot, and Symes)
2. Transtibial Prosthetics (including post-op modalities)
3. Transfemoral Prosthetics (including an introduction to our computerized gait alignment system and a refresher on the Amputee Mobility Predictor)
4. Lower Extremity Prosthetic Gait Training and Deviations (a refresher based on course #5 from 2009)

Give us a call to schedule your course! 937-454-1900

Our future in the prosthetics industry will be determined by how efficiently we can become in providing successful patient outcomes.

Efficiency is defined in many ways:

• Increasing the amount of time we spend with patients instead of on paperwork or fabrication
• Automatically document every step of our patient activities from shape capture through shape modification to fabrication
• Optimizing our fabrication processes in-house
• Minimizing our overhead costs with effective technology solutions
• Reducing re-work to achieve successful patient results in fewer patient visits
• Creating standardized patient care processes in our business to reduce liability risks
• Improving our billing processes and reducing our billing rejections through effective patient comparisons

A successfully integrated CAD/CAM solution can help our prosthetic business to improve operations in all of these areas. With declining reimbursements, competitive bidding programs, insurance contracting, and the growing cost of doing business, Optimus knew that it would be critical that CAD/CAM become an integral part of the business.

Any prosthetist will tell you that a successfully fitted prosthesis depends, in part, on achieving the proper alignment. And yet learning to make alignment adjustments through observational gait analysis-not to mention becoming comfortably proficient at it-is no easy task. Not only does it involve classroom training and perhaps years of on-the-job experience, it also relies on keen observation and communication skills. Even the most proficient prosthetists will admit that achieving "perfect" alignment is out of their reach.
 
Prosthetists and their patients are now one step closer to that ultimate prize, thanks to Orthocare Innovations who is bringing a new prosthetic alignment system to market.
 
Orthocare Innovations, Oklahoma City, OK, released its Computerized Prosthetic Alignment System (Compas) on a limited basis earlier this year; Optimus attended the inaugural product release and seminar at Northwestern University (Chicago) May 24th & 25th, 2009 and is the 1st prosthetic clinic in the greater Dayton area to implement the technology. The Compas system consists of hardware and software that allows a prosthetist to analyze the dynamic functions of a prosthesis, and a modular, endoskeletal, multiaxial force sensor called the Smart Pyramid.

This component will take the standard lower-limb prosthesis and make it an intelligent, active, part of the care process. The Smart Pyramid's design is based on the industry-standard inverted pyramid and is easily integrated into any new or existing endoskeletal lower-limb prosthesis.
 
The Compas system provides the kinetic information that one might seek in a gait laboratory, but the measurements can be made without specialized laboratories or technicians, and the information is relayed (via Bluetooth technology) instantaneously and directly to the prosthetist. The software then provides recommendations to the prosthetist for adjusting the pyramid screws to optimize sagittal and coronal plane alignment.  In other words, the Compas system helps the prosthetist see more than he or she can observe.

Scott Schall, who attended the inaugural release of the Compas system, says he has been impressed by the system. "I was stunned by how closely the Compas feedback coincided with my own clinical judgment," he says. "Even more remarkably, the Compas data coincided 100 percent with the patient's feedback when alignment was 'better than before.' This is the first meaningful change in prosthetic alignment since the transition from fixed exoskeletal or endoskeletal systems to adjustable ones," he adds.


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