With health care reform taking the national spotlight, the sole point of agreement by all parties is that some form of change is necessary. Many health care industry experts believe that now is the worst time for government-mandated change because innovation has already begun to occur organically from within the industry. One Franklin Tennessee-based software company is defining that innovation and garnering attention in the industry.
Health Mason is the solution to the labor intensive, inefficient, and error prone process of health care claim payment. Health Mason is the first product to automate this process from beginning to end and simultaneously accommodate the frequent contract and compliance changes in the industry that has stymied past software solutions. The CEO of Linnaeus and creator of Health Mason, Sal Novin, describes Health Mason as a product that can emulate the work of a human claim examiner. "Health Mason reads a computer screen, it types in data, and decides how to perform a given task with no additional help or tools." But not only does it replicate the work of a human operator, it performs every process with the same mechanical precision as the last, dramatically decreasing human error and increasing quality.
Still, Health Mason's most jaw dropping feature is its raw performance, which is the stuff of science fiction. Novin attributes Health Mason's performance to a technical concept called "multi-threading." Each thread or instance of the application is like a super-human operator reading, typing and deciding the best way to process a health care claim at 3 to 10 times the speed of an average operator. Each thread works relentlessly 24 hours a day, without the need for breaks, food, or sleep - pausing long enough only for nightly backups and other system related tasks. Multi-threading means that adding "staff" is as easy as adding more items to a shopping cart on Amazon.com - no hiring, no training, and no overhead. Each new thread is a clone that processes as effectively and efficiently as the last.