Streamline Health® To Manage Comprehensive Patient Information For One Of Nation's Largest Not-For-Profit Hospitals
Streamline Health Solutions, Inc. , a leading provider of integrated document management and workflow solutions, recently announced that one of the nation's largest not-for-profit, non-sectarian hospitals, located in the New York City area, has selected Streamline Health to manage comprehensive patient information via Streamline Health's hosted ASP model. This will be the fifth major hospital in the New York City area utilizing Streamline Health's solutions and the fifth new hosted customer signed this year. Streamline Health expects to implement the solutions beginning in early 2009.
Streamline Health will integrate its hosted solution to the hospital's existing Eclipsys clinical information system, with the intention to enhance operational efficiencies and streamline overall business processes, while allowing healthcare professionals easier access to essential patient information without the need for extensive on-site IT resources.
"Streamline Health is extremely pleased to offer this nationally recognized medical institution timely access to critical patient information, be it scanned documents or electronic data, through the integration of our document workflow solution with their Eclipsys clinical information system," stated Brian Patsy, president and CEO of Streamline Health. "The implementation of our comprehensive solution will permit this world-class institution, and its affiliated medical schools and teaching hospitals, to establish a single point of access to essential health information for physicians and clinicians across the enterprise, with the goal of improving patient outcomes and enhancing its position as one of the foremost integrated academic health centers in the world."
About Streamline Health Solutions, Inc.
Streamline Health is a leading supplier of workflow and document management tools, applications and services that assist strategic business partners and healthcare organizations to improve operational efficiencies through business process optimization. The Company provides integrated tools and technologies for automating document-intensive environments, including document workflow, document management, e-forms, portal connectivity, optical character recognition (OCR) and interoperability.
The Company's workflow-based services offer solutions to inefficient and labor-intensive healthcare business processes throughout the revenue cycle, such as chart coding, abstracting and completion, remote physician order processing, pre-admission registration scanning and signature capture, insurance verification, secondary billing services, explanation of benefits processing and release of information processing. The Company's solutions also address the document workflow needs of the Human Resource and Supply Chain Management processes of the healthcare enterprise. All solutions are available for purchase or through a remote hosting services model that better matches customers' capital or operating budget needs.
Streamline Health's solutions create a permanent document-based repository of historical health information that is complementary and can be seamlessly integrated with existing disparate clinical, financial and administrative information systems, providing convenient electronic access to all forms of patient information from any location, including secure web-based access. These integrated solutions allow providers and administrators to link existing systems with documents, which can dramatically improve the availability of patient information while decreasing direct costs associated with document retrieval, work-in-process, chart processing, document retention, and archiving.
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SOURCE: Streamline Health Solutions, Inc.