News Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Integration with EpicCare® clinical information system will
support enterprise electronic health records across 13 facilities
CINCINNATI, Ohio March 30, 2006 — LanVision Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ Capital Market: LANV) d\b\a Streamline HealthTM today announced a significant enterprise-wide licensing expansion of its flagship document workflow and document management system software to Texas Health Resources. Streamline Health's solutions aid the drive for business process improvement and
paperless environments by streamlining healthcare processes via workflow and document management-based applications and
tools. The result is a streamlined flow of information associated with using, completing and processing a patient's
electronic health record.
Texas Health Resources is one of largest faith-based, nonprofit U.S. health care systems, comprising 13 hospitals with more
than 2,400 beds, 18,000 employees and 3,600 physicians with active staff privileges, serving 6.2 million people in the
greater Dallas-Fort Worth area. The agreement will complement the organization's implementation of the EpicCare clinical
information system. THR's goal is to establish a comprehensive, integrated electronic health record for patients in all of
its hospitals. Currently, Streamline Health's solutions are installed and in production in two hospital facilities.
Streamline Health solutions provide tight integration with hospital enterprise clinical information systems. Such
integration enables physicians, HIM professionals and business office personnel to work within their existing desktop
applications to seamlessly obtain document-centric health information critical for efficient chart coding, chart completion,
release of information and revenue cycle activities.
The Streamline Health solutions to be implemented across the enterprise include:
- accessANYware™: provides enterprise access to a patient's medical and financial records to better coordinate patient care.
- codingANYware™: improves coding turnaround time by prioritizing and pushing work tasks to staff coders on campus or in remote locations, including home-based employees.
- Integration to EpicCare®: enables physicians and HIM professionals to work within their specific Epic clinical applications and seamlessly obtain document images critical for patient care, efficient chart coding, chart completion and other revenue cycle activities.
- Document Capture Products: deliver high speed production scanning and indexing as well as departmental document capture and management.
- Optional Completion Workflow: expedites the completion of the medical record and accelerates the completion of billing services.
Brian Patsy, President and Chief Executive Officer of Streamline Health, remarked, "We have done business with Texas Health
Resources since 1997, utilizing workflow and document management automation tools. We are grateful for our long term
business relationship and we are excited about the opportunity to expand our solutions throughout their enterprise, while
integrating our document-centric workflow applications within their existing data-centric clinical applications."
About Texas Health Resources
Texas Health Resources is one of the largest faith-based nonprofit health care delivery systems in the United States. The
13-hospital system is the largest in North Texas in terms of patients served and includes the Presbyterian Healthcare System,
Harris Methodist Hospitals and Arlington Memorial Hospital. THR was ranked No. 28 in 2005 on the InformationWeek 500, a
listing of the largest and most innovative users of information technology. For more information about Texas Health
Resources, visit www.texashealth.org.
About Streamline Health
Streamline Health is a leading supplier of workflow and document management tools, applications and services that assist
strategic business partners, healthcare organizations, and customers to create and improve operational efficiencies through
business process re-engineering and automating demanding document-intensive environments. 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 departments 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 access using
a web-browser through the Intranet/Internet. These integrated systems allow providers and administrators to link 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.
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