COLUMBIA, S.C., June 2 /PRNewswire/ -- The American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) has accepted Companion Technologies as a supporter of its Partners for Patients initiative to provide its membership with electronic health records to improve continuity of patient care, reduce medical errors, and ensure health information transportability.
Companion Technologies signed a Declaration of Support for Partners for Patients in which the company agrees to uphold the AAFP's four guiding principles of affordability, compatibility, interoperability and data stewardship in technology products for family physicians. In this initiative, the AAFP particularly stresses the need for quality EHR products.
"At the AAFP, we're very serious about helping to make EHRs and other health information technology more affordable and standardized for our members and other physicians' practices," said David C. Kibbe, M.D., director of the AAFP Center for Health Information Technology. "We greatly appreciate the support from Companion Technologies for a principle-based, industry-wide approach to these goals. Companion Technologies is a long-time leader in this field, and is again demonstrating its leadership."
"AAFP's partner alliances place them clearly in the forefront of technological development among medical associations," said Companion Technologies President Harvey Galloway. "Companion Technologies is pleased to be able to offer Companion EMR as an affordable product that will help family physicians give the kind of care they want to give their patients."
Founded in 1947 and based in Leawood, Kansas, the American Academy of Family Physicians ( http://www.aafp.org/ ) represents more than 93,700 physicians and medical students nationwide. It is the only medical specialty society devoted solely to primary care. To learn more about the Partners for Patients initiative, visit http://www.aafp.org/centerforhit.xml .
Established in 1985 and based in Columbia, S.C., Companion Technologies' ( http://www.companiontechnologies.com/ ) flagship software products are Companion EMR, Companion PM practice management system, and Companion EDI for data interchange.
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