News Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Streamline Health’s Integrated Document Workflow Solutions to Improve the Efficiency
of Healthcare Information Delivery Processes for Healthcare Organization
Cincinnati, Ohio November 26, 2007 — Streamline Health Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ Capital Market: STRM), a leading provider of integrated document workflow solutions, today announced that a large Northeastern healthcare system will implement Streamline Health’s enterprise document workflow solutions, as another strategic step in transforming their organization’s healthcare delivery processes. To enhance the flow of patient information, Streamline Health’s solutions will be integrated with the hospital’s current GE Healthcare Centricity® Enterprise clinical information system, enabling them to have a single point of access to critical patient data.
Patient-Focused Healthcare Delivery
A new client for Streamline Health, this not-for-profit, multi-hospital healthcare system located in the northeastern United States is comprised of over 1,000 beds and also includes an outpatient healthcare center, outpatient surgery centers, home healthcare service, and rehabilitation and nursing centers. Streamline Health’s workflow solutions will provide this facility with an automated means of moving documents through various clinical, billing and administrative processes, while also providing a document-based repository of historical health information conveniently accessed from within the patient context of their clinical information system.
The Streamline Health solutions include the following:
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. |
| Release of Information Workflow: |
Facilitates efficient compliance with requests for patient information from third party requestors. |
| 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. |
| RegScan™: |
Captures insurance cards, driver’s licenses and consent forms at the point of registration. |
| eForms: |
Delivers electronic forms automation by integrating information and electronic signatures collected during patient registration to produce needed forms and wristbands on demand to streamline patient access processes. |
“Streamline Health’s document workflow solutions integrated with GE Healthcare’s Centricity® clinical information system will enable this large healthcare organization to achieve their goals for enhancing operational efficiencies, optimizing document workflow, and advancing the quality of patient care,” according to Brian Patsy, president and CEO of Streamline Health. “Streamline Health’s vision is to transform healthcare delivery by partnering with healthcare organizations to improve the flow of document centric business processes.”
About Streamline Health Solutions, Inc.
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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