News Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Integrated Solutions Enable OHSU to Achieve Enterprise-wide Workflow Benefits
and Timely Access to Patient Health Information
Cincinnati, Ohio April 12, 2007 — Streamline Health Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ Capital Market: STRM), a leading provider of integrated document workflow solutions, today announced that it has successfully implemented integration of its solutions at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU). As part of the implementation, Streamline Health’s solutions for Health Information Management (HIM) were integrated with Oregon Health & Science University’s EMR solution, EpicCare® from Epic Systems Corporation.
Located in Portland, the OHSU Health System includes OHSU Hospital, Doernbecher Children’s Hospital, and dozens of primary care and specialty clinics serving every county in Oregon. OHSU's high-quality healthcare incorporates the latest medical research, technology and innovation. Using a technology-enabling approach, OHSU employed Streamline Health’s enterprise solutions, which are designed specifically for healthcare providers’ workflow, to enable them to address today’s emerging issues of interoperability and the hybrid medical record of patient data and documents.
“The integration of Streamline Health’s solutions with our Epic system empowers us with seamless access to the electronic health record, simplifying the flow of patient information throughout our facilities,” commented Bridget Haggerty, interim chief information officer at OHSU. “Streamline Health® has helped us increase our operational efficiencies, leading to enhanced patient care and satisfaction.”
In addition to Epic Systems, Streamline Health’s solutions were also integrated with other OHSU systems, including Siemens Lifetime Clinical Record® (LCR). The result is a comprehensive approach to document management across their enterprise.
“Streamline Health and OHSU share a vision for improving patient information through an integrated approach to enterprise-wide workflow,” commented Brian Patsy, president and chief executive officer of Streamline Health. “Our document management solutions offer the flexibility to integrate with clients’ existing applications to alleviate process friction points and positively impact the quality of patient care.”
About Oregon Health & Science University
The hospitals and clinics of Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) provide leading-edge healthcare services to patients throughout Oregon and the Pacific Northwest. As the state's only health and research university, OHSU blends education, research, patient care and community outreach into one shared mission: to improve the well-being of people in Oregon and beyond. Together, these pieces form the foundation for the university's patient care services.
OHSU's high-quality healthcare incorporates the latest medical research, technology and innovation. Nationally recognized clinical researchers at OHSU take their knowledge from the laboratory directly to the patient. This proximity between medical breakthrough and applied healthcare enables a level of treatment unmatched anywhere else in the state. OHSU's outstanding healthcare services continue to score high points with patients and the general public. For more information, visit OHSU online at www.ohsu.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 solutions 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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