Thomas Hospital Expands Operational Efficiencies Through Streamline Health Enterprise Workflow Solutions12 July 2006
Streamline Health Solutions, Inc. (Nasdaq: STRM) today announced that Thomas Hospital will utilize Streamline Health's enterprise document workflow solutions to achieve business process improvements. Thomas Hospital's implementation of the Health Information Management (HIM) workflow solutions from Streamline Health (SLH) offers the opportunity to maximize information flows throughout the hospital and enhance the quality of healthcare to its patients. Streamline Health's core HIM solutions look to generate operating efficiencies at Thomas Hospital including improved chart deficiency management; more cost-effective coding and abstracting; timely release of information requests; and streamlining of other business processes across the enterprise.
Over the past decade, Thomas Hospital has experienced tremendous growth in Fairhope, Alabama and the surrounding Baldwin County. The hospital will use SLH's business process solutions to support its growth, increase the accuracy of information flows, and ensure a continuous delivery of excellent patient care throughout its community. Streamline Health's HIM workflow solutions will provide Thomas Hospital with immediate and simultaneous viewing of paper- based medical record documents through a document-based repository of historical health information with a single log-on for quick and convenient access. SLH's solutions offer Thomas Hospital easy access to all forms of patient information, whether generated electronically or from paper. Streamline Health's HIM solutions are unique in that they offer a fully- integrated and convenient user interface, eliminating the need to sign in and out of multiple applications. These applications also alleviate process friction points to enhance interoperability among the different silos of technology across departments.
The implementation of SLH solutions across the enterprise 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.
- 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 Solutions deliver high speed production scanning and
indexing as well as departmental document capture and management.
- eForms delivers electronic forms processing and pushes work to the
desktop to obtain e-signatures at the point of patient registration
while standardizing forms to capture information and create documents
you need to run your business.
- Integration to Computer Programs and Systems, Inc. (CPSI) information
and patient care system enables physicians and HIM professionals to
work within their clinical applications and seamlessly obtain document
images critical for patient care, efficient chart coding, chart
completion and other revenue cycle activities.
"Streamline Health's solutions offer Thomas Hospital the capability to generate faster turnaround times of patient information, increase employee productivity and reduce operational costs meeting the everyday demands of Health Information Management activities. Thomas Hospital now has the means to view a patient's medical history in a complete and accurate picture and manage the information across the continuum of care," commented Brian Patsy, president and CEO of Streamline Health.
"Streamline Health will give us the ability to more efficiently handle patient information and more effectively manage healthcare decisions, which will have a positive impact on the quality of care at Thomas Hospital," said Stacey Sexton, director of Health Information Management at Thomas Hospital. "The impact on our workflow will also optimize business processes throughout the hospital and generate very real cost savings."
About Thomas Hospital
For more than 45 years Thomas Hospital has provided excellent patient care and compassionate service that has earned the distinction of hospital of choice among Baldwin County residents. In 2002, Thomas Hospital opened the county's first open heart surgery and balloon angioplasty center. The 200-plus physicians along with its medical staff are committed to promoting good health in the community through health education and wellness programs. Thomas Hospital also provides a significant amount of charity care and supports local organizations and schools.
Thomas Hospital, an affiliate of Infirmary Health System, currently employs more than 1,100 people and has a volunteer Auxiliary of 400-plus members. Through employment and the purchase of goods and services, the hospital plays a significant role in the Baldwin County economy. Thomas Hospital is dedicated to providing the best possible healthcare locally, and at reasonable costs. The hospital's Board of Directors, physicians, staff, and volunteers all strive to maintain the hospital's reputation for providing quality patient care and compassion in a friendly, hometown environment. From a new 100,000 square foot addition to the main hospital in Fairhope, to an 80,000 square foot outpatient diagnostic and surgery center in Daphne, Thomas Hospital has grown to meet Baldwin County's medical needs. For more information about Thomas Hospital, visit their website at http://www.thomashospital.com.
About Streamline Health
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, 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. For additional information, please visit our website at http://www.streamlinehealth.net.
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Source: prnewswire
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