CINCINNATI, Aug. 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- LanVision Systems, Inc. d/b/a Streamline Health(TM) today announced an agreement with PeaceHealth to install Streamline Health’s Health Information Management (HIM) workflow solutions as part of its use of the IDX(R) Carecast(TM) enterprise clinical, financial and administrative system from IDX Systems Corporation. Streamline Health’s solutions aid the drive for paperless environments by enabling document images (such as images of signed patient consent forms) to be clearly viewed and managed within each patient’s electronic health record. The result is a streamlined flow of information associated with using and completing a patient’s electronic health record. Through use of these solutions, organizations are better equipped to reduce coding turnaround times and accrue significant savings throughout the revenue cycle.
Key functionality of the Streamline Health solution is tightly integrated with the Carecast enterprise clinical system. This enables physicians and HIM professionals to work within their specific Carecast applications and seamlessly obtain document images critical for efficient chart coding, chart completion and release of information activities.
The solutions implemented include: - accessANYware(TM) provides enterprise access to a patient’s medical and financial records to better coordinate patient care - Completion Workflow expedites the completion of the medical record and accelerates the completion of billing services - Release of Information facilitates efficient compliance Workflow(TM) with requests for patient information from third party requestors - codingANYware(TM) improves coding turnaround time by prioritizing and pushing work tasks to staff coders on campus or in remote locations, including home-based employees - Document Capture Products delivers high speed production scanning and indexing as well as departmental document capture and management
John Haughom, MD, Senior Vice President of Healthcare Improvement at PeaceHealth, commented, “Streamline Health is a strategic partner with IDX, with whom we have a long-standing relationship, including a recent announcement of our upgrade to the Carecast system. Since Streamline Health’s solutions are integrated into Carecast technology, we look forward to realizing greater workflow efficiencies that will benefit our clinicians’ productivity and our service to our patients.”
“Streamline Health is very pleased to offer PeaceHealth a healthcare solution that will complement and enhance the IDX clinical information system. Our document workflows bridge the gap between systems by electronically capturing document-centric patient information and cultivating operational efficiencies. Our technology offers PeaceHealth a greater means for implementing and measuring improved performance while creating significant savings throughout their revenue cycle,” commented J. Brian Patsy, President and CEO of Streamline Health.
About PeaceHealth
PeaceHealth is a 1,100 bed premier healthcare system in the Pacific Northwest. It strives to remain consistent with its mission and heritage as a healing culture that is patient-centered and family friendly. In 1994, PeaceHealth began the process of developing a Community Health Record -- a computerized medical record for its patients and associated physicians. The vision continues to evolve, and consequently, PeaceHealth is recognized as a national leader in the integration of information technology and clinical care. The cornerstone of PeaceHealth is healing and compassionate care, which guides the organization in developing models of care in service to its patients and families.
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 Programme 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.
About Streamline Health
Streamline Health is a leading supplier of workflow and document management tools, applications and services that assist strategic business partners, healthcare organizations, and customers to create and improve operational efficiencies through business process re-engineering and automating demanding document-intensive environments. 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 departments 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 access using a web-browser through the Intranet/Internet. These 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 provides remote hosting services to various healthcare providers. In addition, the Company 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, Medical University Hospital Authority of South Carolina, and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.
For additional information please visit our website at http://www.streamlinehealth.net.
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