News Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Albert Einstein Healthcare Network advances health information workflow
to improve the patient care experience
Cincinnati, Ohio March 27, 2007— Streamline Health Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ Capital Market: STRM), a leading provider of integrated document workflow solutions, today announced that Albert Einstein Healthcare Network is in the process of expanding its document workflow solutions from Streamline Health across their enterprise to include the implementation of the Health Information Management (HIM) Suite. Through these solutions, Albert Einstein Healthcare Network expects improvements in operational efficiencies that will heighten the quality of patient care and safety, as well as provide easier access to patient information throughout the enterprise.
Albert Einstein Healthcare Network, based in the greater Philadelphia region, is a not-for-profit healthcare organization with six major facilities and several outpatient centers, providing healthcare programs and services that range from community health education and preventive medicine, to complex and specialized care requiring advanced technology and highly expert staff. A Streamline Health customer since 1995, Albert Einstein has more than 3 million patient charts securely managed and available online. This healthcare network has been dedicated to implementing advancements in technology to enable them to provide better patient care, improve safety and work more efficiently.
In line with their vision, Albert Einstein continues to invest in Streamline Health’s document workflow solutions, by expanding the Health Information Management (HIM) Suite. The various workflow modules will enable their organization to manage the integration and flow of electronic documents and data; facilitate clinician access to full patient records; and ultimately lead to more accurate and informed healthcare decisions. “Our goal is to offer exceptional healthcare to our community enabled by the right technology, such as Streamline Health’s document workflow solutions,” commented Ken Levitan, chief information officer, at Albert Einstein Healthcare Network. “Through the expansion of Streamline Health’s document management solutions, we expect to see our users become more productive and efficient, supporting our high level of patient service and care.”
Albert Einstein Healthcare Network will implement the following Streamline Health document management workflow solutions across their enterprise:
Health Information Management (HIM) 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.
Streamline Health’s solutions accelerate enterprise access to timely and relevant information for the Albert Einstein Healthcare Network, thus transforming their processes by improving the flow of information. “Streamline Health’s strategy has been to develop document workflow solutions specifically for healthcare organizations by incorporating how health information is used throughout their enterprise,” commented Brian Patsy, chief executive officer at Streamline Health. “The use of our advanced workflow technologies provides the Albert Einstein Healthcare Network significant advantages by creating a seamless care environment that leverages hybrid medical records consisting of documents and electronic data and enables them to better serve their entire community.”
About Albert Einstein Healthcare Network
Albert Einstein Healthcare Network is a 1,200 bed integrated delivery network serving the communities of North Philadelphia and Montgomery County, PA. Einstein combines the best of academic medicine and community service, employing nearly 7,000 people and offering training programs for physician residents and fellows, nurses and other health professionals. For more information, visit their website at: http://www.einstein.edu.
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 technology 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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