BURLINGTON, Vt., Feb. 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- IDX Systems Corporation , a leading provider of healthcare information systems, today announced that the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC), an integrated delivery network (IDN) serving western New York State, will use IDX(R) Flowcast(TM) to improve patient management and accounting practices across their enterprise.
URMC will use Flowcast to increase organizational efficiencies and improve patient services. Strong Memorial Hospital, a 750 bed facility, and Highland Hospital, a 268 bed facility, will implement the Flowcast Hospital Patient Accounting application. Flowcast Enterprise Visit Management will be deployed across the entire IDN. The expected operational and technical simplification achieved by implementing integrated Flowcast solutions across inpatient and clinical care settings will enable a more productive and efficient workforce.
“Having one system for scheduling and registration across our hospitals and clinics will help us to better identify patients and their information and will improve patients’ access to care,” said Jerry Powell, Chief Information Officer, University of Rochester Medical Center. “The productivity gains we anticipate from standardizing processes across our enterprise, we believe, will yield improvements to our financial performance and to the services we will be able to provide to the communities we serve.”
When URMC identified its strategic goal of creating a single patient management and accounting system across its faculty practice plan and hospitals, it selected IDX based on proven results. The University of Rochester Faculty Medical Group, a multi-specialty practice of more than 900 physicians, has been a Flowcast customer since 1997. In addition, the IDX(R) Imagecast(TM) Radiology Information System (RIS) has been in place at URMC since 1992.
“Implementing integrated patient access and accounting solutions across IDNs can yield significant financial benefits and contribute to higher quality patient service,” said James H. Crook, Jr., Chief Executive Officer, IDX Systems Corporation. “There is no better validation of our ability to help large, complex healthcare enterprises succeed than their expanded use of our solutions. Because of its vision of a seamless flow of patient information across care settings, we believe URMC will serve as an example of best practices when integrating the healthcare enterprise.”
For a demonstration of Flowcast, visit IDX at HIMSS 2005, February 13-17, in Dallas, Booth #2334.
About IDX(R) Flowcast(TM)
Flowcast is a comprehensive revenue cycle management solution designed to help large physician organizations, hospitals and integrated delivery networks (IDNs) improve business performance. Flowcast optimizes the revenue cycle through the improvement of business processes associated with patient access, billing and reimbursement. The product also offers robust business intelligence capabilities to help monitor and improve performance metrics, including patient satisfaction, regulatory compliance issues and key financial indicators. Flowcast enables the seamless flow of information across the enterprise, promoting greater efficiency and data integrity from the front desk to the back office. Flowcast combines proven capabilities with embedded best practices to advance business success. Whether deployed in-house, delivered as a hosted solution, or provided as a comprehensive outsourced business service, Flowcast is at the foundation of world-class patient service and business performance. For more information, visit http://www.idx.com/flowcast.
About IDX
Founded in 1969, IDX Systems Corporation provides information technology solutions to maximize value in the delivery of healthcare, improve the quality of patient service, enhance medical outcomes, and reduce the costs of care. IDX supports these objectives with a broad range of complementary and functionally rich products installed at 3,300 customer sites. Customers include 138,000 physicians who utilize practice management systems to improve patient care and other workflow processes. IDX software solutions are installed at:
-- 380 integrated delivery networks (IDNs) representing more than 500 hospitals -- 175 large group practices with more than 200 physicians -- 665 mid-size group practices with less than 200 physicians
IDX also provides its enterprise clinical software as a subcontractor to BT and Fujitsu Services, Local Service Providers 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 2,100 full-time employees.
IDX, Flowcast and Imagecast are trademarks or registered trademarks of IDX Investment Corporation.
This press release contains forward-looking statements about IDX Systems Corporation that involve a number of risks and uncertainties. Among the important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those indicated by such forward-looking statements are uncertainties or difficulties in developing and/or integrating new services and systems, difficulties in implementing systems, possible deferral, delay or cancellation by customers of computer systems or service purchase decisions, possible delay of system installations and service implementations, development by competitors of new or superior technologies, changing economic, political and regulatory influences on the healthcare industry, possible disruptions in the national economy caused by terrorist activities and foreign conflicts, changes in product pricing policies, governmental regulation of IDX’s software and operations, the possibility of product-related liabilities, and factors detailed from time to time in IDX’s periodic reports and registration statements filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, which important factors are incorporated herein by reference. IDX undertakes no obligation to update forward-looking statements to reflect changed assumptions, the occurrence of unanticipated events, or changes in future operating results, financial condition or business over time.
For more information, contact: Margo C. Happer Vice President, Investor Relations and Corporate Communications IDX Systems Corporation 802.859.6169 Bob Osmond Osmosis Communications, Inc. For IDX Systems Corporation bob@osmosiscommunications.com 802.472.3444
IDX Systems Corporation
CONTACT: Margo C. Happer, Vice President, Investor Relations andCorporate Communications of IDX Systems Corporation, +1-802-859-6169; or BobOsmond of Osmosis Communications, Inc. for IDX Systems Corporation,+1-802-472-3444, bob@osmosiscommunications.com
Web site: http://www.idx.com/