News Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Streamline Health’s Solutions to Boost Efficiency within Healthcare Organization
Cincinnati, Ohio January 2, 2008 — Streamline Health Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ Capital Market: STRM) today announced that a multi-facility hospital network located in the Southeastern region of the U.S. will implement Streamline Health’s enterprise document management and workflow solutions integrated with its GE Centricity® Enterprise solution. The combined solutions will enhance the flow of information across the healthcare enterprise, empowering healthcare providers with critical information necessary for quality patient care.
As a not-for-profit healthcare organization, this new Streamline Health® customer offers state-of-the-art technology to optimize patient care and streamline overall business processes. Streamline Health will enhance clinical efficiencies at this hospital network with the implementation of both a permanent, document-based repository of historical health information and workflow solutions to improve the flow of document-centric business processes.
The Streamline Health solutions to be implemented include:
Streamline Health Enterprise Suite
| accessANYware™: |
Provides enterprise access to a patient’s medical and financial records to coordinate better patient care. |
| Completion Workflow: |
Expedites the completion of the medical record, including secure remote reviewing and electronic signature by physicians. |
| Coding Workflow™: |
Improves coding turnaround time by prioritizing and pushing work tasks to staff coders on campus or in remote locations, including home-based employees. |
| Cash Management Workflow: |
Improves and enhances the cash posting, research and follow-up functions within the business office. Expedites the payment cycle by electronically capturing both paper-based and digitized Explanation of Benefits (EOB). |
| Contract Management Workflow: |
Offers healthcare Legal departments a systematic approach to managing the contract approval process and provides immediate access to completed contracts and associated documentation. |
| Referral Order Workflow: |
Captures and routes a referring physician’s hand-written, faxed orders to the hospital’s scheduling office to improve the efficiency of the patient registration process. |
| FolderView™: |
Enables any department to digitize their paper and retrieve the images using a suite defined folder hierarchy. |
Fully available from within GE Healthcare’s Centricity® Enterprise solution, an integrated clinical, financial and administrative system, Streamline Health’s enterprise document workflow solutions will equip healthcare professionals at this healthcare entity with seamless access to document-based patient information.
“Through our business process automation and management capabilities, our new healthcare customer will gain interoperability, providing an easier and more efficient exchange of information throughout their enterprise,” according to Brian Patsy, president and CEO of Streamline Health. “Applying an integrated approach, our solutions will meet the daily demands of inter-departmental processes and will accelerate cost savings to generate a real return on investment.”
About Streamline Health Solutions, Inc.
Streamline Health is a leading supplier of workflow and document management tools, applications and services that assist healthcare organizations and strategic business partner’s customers 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, optical character recognition (OCR) 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 www.streamlinehealth.net.
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