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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Streamline Health Equips University Hospital in Cincinnati Ohio with Coding Workflow and
Upgraded Document Management Solutions to Improve Operational Efficiencies
Cincinnati, Ohio February 19, 2007 — Streamline Health Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ Capital Market: STRM), one of the leading providers of integrated document management solutions, today announced that the Health Information Management Department at The University Hospital in Cincinnati, Ohio, will upgrade to Streamline Health’s enhanced document management solutions, including Coding Workflow delivered through remote hosting services. With these solutions, University Hospital looks to advance their health information management processes, increase productivity and enhance the quality of patient care.
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The expansion of Streamline Health’s document management solutions will enable University Hospital to create a more flexible work environment, increase their responsiveness to patient information requests, and experience greater efficiencies for quality patient care. These process improvements will emerge through the implementation of an upgraded version of Streamline Health’s leading document management solutions and addition of its Coding Workflow module.
“Through the use of Streamline Health’s solutions, University Hospital will enhance their ability to monitor coder productivity and accuracy,” commented Kathy L. Monroe, RHIA, Director of Health Information Management at University Hospital. “Streamline Health’s document workflow solutions fit with our vision for delivering comprehensive health information when it is needed to enhance the quality of health care decisions.”
Streamline Health’s Coding Workflow software will help University Hospital improve health information management turnaround time, prioritize tasks and securely route charts to coders in remote locations, including home-based employees.
“We are pleased to build upon our long and innovative relationship with University Hospital,” states Brian Patsy, president and CEO of Streamline Health. “These upgraded document workflow solutions will generate a more efficient and streamlined approach to assist with the flow of health information. By eliminating process delays, University Hospital can better serve patients and the community with quick and accurate health care services.”
About The Health Alliance of Greater Cincinnati
The University Hospital is part of the Health Alliance of Greater Cincinnati, the largest and leading integrated health care delivery system within the Tri-state area of Southwestern Ohio, Northern Kentucky, and Southeastern Indiana. The Health Alliance is an integrated health care delivery system that includes The Christ Hospital, The University Hospital, The St. Luke Hospitals, The Jewish Hospital, Fort Hamilton Hospital, Drake Center, West Chester Medical Center and the physicians of Alliance Primary Care.
With a shared vision for a healthy community through caring for people one individual at a time, the Health Alliance strives to offer its community the most comprehensive, effective and compassionate care possible. Health Alliance Hospitals placed 13 programs among the nation's best in U.S. News & World Report 2006 Annual Guide to "America's Best Hospitals."
The Health Alliance covers the entire Greater Cincinnati area and includes teaching and acute care hospitals. These facilities offer a range of medical and surgical services including: a Level I trauma center, air and mobile care transport services, cardiac care services with the region’s only heart transplantation program, women’s health services including the area’s first Level III perinatal center, renowned neurological services, oncology, blood and bone marrow transplant services, orthopedics and behavioral medicine, as well as a wide variety of primary care and wellness programs. For additional information about University Hospital or the Health Alliance of Greater Cincinnati, visit online at www.health-alliance.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, optical character recognition 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. Through the remote hosting option, Streamline Health currently manages over 14 million patient charts securely accessed by over 11,000 users.
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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