IMO Core Periop

IMO Core Periop is a surgical terminology and dictionary management solution designed to help hospitals, surgery centers, and health systems optimize operating room scheduling, streamline perioperative workflows, and maximize reimbursement. By maintaining a comprehensive, up-to-date surgical dictionary with accurate procedure terms and corresponding code mappings, IMO Core Periop addresses the data inconsistencies that commonly create inefficiencies across the surgical care continuum.

The solution is purpose-built for organizations that rely on precise procedural language for tasks such as prior authorization, surgery scheduling, case duration measurement, preference card maintenance, and billing. Without a well-maintained, centralized source of terms and standard codes, data becomes inconsistent and negatively impacts an organization's operational and financial performance. IMO Core Periop seamlessly maintains procedure terms along with CPT® and HCPCS code mappings to deliver more accurate data across all these use cases.

Comprehensive and Current Surgical Terminology

• Decreases duplicate terms and supports organizations with standardized procedure descriptions and code mappings
• Automatically updates important annual CPT and HCPCS releases, ensuring terminology remains current without manual intervention
• Includes 5,000+ patient-friendly terms that maximize patient clarity, experience, and transparency
• Patient-friendly terms appear alongside standardized clinical terms, aliases, codes, inpatient-only identifiers, and more — within the same file used for the OR scheduling module
• Data is seamlessly passed through to patient-facing interfaces such as check-in kiosks, patient portals (browsers and mobile apps), appointment reminders, and emails

Workflow Streamlining and OR Efficiency

• Integrates search support with aliases to increase the usefulness of the EHR and reduce the technology burden on clinical staff
• Simplifies content upkeep with mapping tools that provide timely access to IMO Health-validated procedures and codes
• Applies precise case durations through granular terminology to enhance OR utilization and scheduling accuracy
• Improves alignment to preference cards to optimize OR set-up, procurement, and supply chain management

Financial Performance and Reimbursement Optimization

• Flags inpatient-only procedures during the scheduling process to prevent downstream billing issues
• Includes all applicable codes to ensure complete pre-authorizations and reduce denied claims
• Supports more accurate billing by maintaining consistent, validated procedure-to-code mappings throughout the surgical workflow

Dedicated Mapping Tool and Dictionary Migration Support

• Provides a dedicated mapping tool to support migration and clean-up of existing surgical dictionaries
• Allows users to filter by service line to address specific sets of procedures and toggle views to easily locate duplicate entries
• Enables mapping of current procedures to IMO Health-validated, clinically sound terms and codes that did not auto-match during migration
• Offers access to IMO Health's comprehensive catalogue of terms, with the ability to collaborate with IMO Health clinical informaticists to ask questions and resolve mapping challenges
• Includes a proprietary platform for ongoing access, search, and selection of terms and codes to be integrated into the EHR

IMO Core Periop capabilities vary based on EHR channel and integrations. The solution is designed to work within existing EHR environments, with data flowing directly into OR scheduling modules and patient-facing interfaces, supporting both clinical operations and patient engagement across the perioperative journey.