CINCINNATI, Jan. 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- LanVision Systems, Inc. d\b\a Streamline Health(TM) today announced the licensing of their flagship enterprise-wide document management and document workflow system software to St. Vincent’s Medical Center in Bridgeport, CT. The contract was signed in conjunction with the organization’s upgrade to the IDX(R) Carecast(TM) enterprise clinical system (announced in a separate news release issued by IDX on December 22). St. Vincent’s is committed to establishing comprehensive electronic health records for its patients. The IDX Carecast Document Management solution, powered by Streamline Health, will enable authorized users to securely access document-based information - such as patient consent forms - within the electronic health record, supporting increased productivity and operational efficiencies.
The software, also marketed as accessANYware(TM), is the foundational element of the Streamline Health portfolio of document management and document workflow solutions. The document management system addresses operational inefficiencies and streamlines the flow of information associated with a patient’s electronic medical record. The software provides document management capabilities in conjunction with both IDX LastWord(R) and the next generation Carecast system, and helps to ensure that paper-based documents can be stored and managed in electronic form within the patient’s electronic health record.
“Streamline Health solutions eliminate paper while providing real-time delivery of critical health information and will help redefine business processes for St. Vincent’s Medical Center,” stated J. Brian Patsy, President and CEO. “As hospitals become increasingly paperless, our technology is a powerful tool in helping build more comprehensive, efficient electronic patient records. We are pleased to offer St. Vincent’s Medical Center a software solution that improves their business process management requirements.”
“We anticipate achieving rapid operational benefits from our combined IDX- Streamline Health solution,” said Gary Weiner, Chief Information Officer at St. Vincent’s Medical Center. “We plan to deploy document management within our existing LastWord system and will expand our document management capabilities as we activate Carecast in 2006. As a result, our physicians will be able to quickly and securely access document images within our electronic health records system. The end result promises to benefit physician satisfaction and ultimately enhance the quality of patient care.”
About Streamline Health
Streamline Health is a leading supplier of workflow and document management solutions. Through automation of document-intensive processes, Streamline Health delivers on the promise to streamline operations and improve financial results for healthcare organizations.
The company’s workflow-based services offer solutions to inefficient and labor-intensive healthcare business processes throughout the revenue cycle, such as chart coding, chart completion, remote physician-order processing, explanation of benefits management, cash posting and correspondence processing. The company’s solutions also address the document workflow needs of the Human Resource and Supply Chain Management departments of the healthcare enterprise. All solutions are available for purchase or through a remote hosting services model that closely aligns with capital or operating budget needs.
Streamline Health’s solutions create a permanent document-based repository of historical health information that is complementary to existing disparate clinical, financial and administrative information systems, providing the technology user with seamless access to information, including convenient electronic access to all forms of patient information from any location. The integrated systems allow providers and administrators to link 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.
Streamline Health has installed its workflow and document management solutions at leading healthcare providers including Stanford Hospital and Clinics, Albert Einstein Healthcare Network, Beth Israel Medical Centers, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Children’s Medical Center of Columbus, OH, Medical University Hospital Authority of South Carolina, and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.
For additional information visit: http://www.streamlinehealth.net
About St. Vincent’s Medical Center
St. Vincent’s Medical Center is a 397-bed community teaching hospital. The Medical Center is a member of Ascension Health, a national health system formed by the Daughters of Charity and the Sisters of St. Joseph, and the nation’s largest Catholic healthcare system.
St. Vincent’s is clinically affiliated with New York-Presbyterian Healthcare System and is a teaching affiliate of the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and of New York Medical College.
St.Vincent’s provides a full range of inpatient and ambulatory services including comprehensive programs in Cardiology, Oncology, Orthopedics, Women’s and Family Health Services, Behavioral Health, Senior Health and an array of specialized services.
For additional information visit: http://www.stvincents.org
About IDX Systems Corporation
Founded in 1969, IDX Systems Corporation provides information technology solutions that maximize value in the delivery of healthcare, improve the quality of patient service, enhance medical outcomes, and reduce the costs of care. Our systems are deployed to serve approximately 150,000 physicians and are installed at over 3,400 customer sites, including more than 850 group practices and approximately 370 integrated delivery networks servicing more than 500 hospitals.
IDX also provides its enterprise clinical software as a subcontractor to BT, Local Service Provider for the United Kingdom National Health Service’s National Program for Information Technology, an initiative to establish electronic patient records for 50 million patients.
The IDX web strategy includes browser technology, e-commerce and web-based tools - built using Internet architecture - that facilitates access for patients, physicians and care providers to vital health information and data managed by the IDX clinical, administrative, financial, and managed care products. IDX has approximately 2,400 full-time employees.
For additional information visit: http://idx.com
IDX, Carecast and LastWord are registered trademarks or trademarks of IDX Investment Corporation.
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