News Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Streamline Health’s Integrated Document Workflow Solutions Empower
Columbus Children’s Hospital for Process Optimization
Cincinnati, Ohio November 27, 2006 — Streamline Health Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ Capital Market: STRM), a leading provider of integrated document management and workflow solutions, today announced that Columbus Children’s Hospital will expand their document management solutions, utilizing Streamline Health's remote hosting services. Columbus Children’s Hospital plans to implement Streamline Health’s complete Health Information Management (HIM) Suite across their enterprise. As part of this implementation, Streamline Health’s solutions will be integrated with the hospital’s current Epic clinical systems for easy and secure electronic document access to complete patient information.
A Progressive Vision for Enhanced Patient Care
As one of the five largest pediatric hospitals in the nation and a top ten National Institute of Health-funded free-standing pediatric research center, Columbus Children’s Hospital, based in Columbus, Ohio, is dedicated to offering the highest quality healthcare. This 323-bed nationally-recognized leader in pediatric healthcare will deploy Streamline Health’s Health Information Management Suite, enabling Children’s to enhance operational efficiencies and advance patient care.
“At Columbus Children’s Hospital we will expand the use of Streamline Health workflow solutions as part of our overall plan to build a strong integrated technology foundation and make complete electronic medical records accessible to teams across all points of care,” stated Jill Choi, MBA, RHIA, HIM Director at Columbus Children’s Hospital. “Streamline Health’s integrated document workflow solutions will enable us to ensure that important patient information gets to where it is needed, enhancing patient safety and the quality of service.”
As part of this expanded contract, Columbus Children’s Hospital will implement the following Streamline Health HIM Suite solutions:
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.
Chart Tracking Workflow: Provides the ability to track and manage paper or other hard copy media charts.
RegScan™: Captures insurance cards, driver’s licenses, and consent forms at the point of registration.
Document Capture Solutions: Deliver high speed production scanning and automatic indexing as well as departmental document capture and management.
“Streamline Health and Columbus Children’s Hospital share the vision of an integrated and robust system that delivers a higher quality of patient care through innovative technology solutions,” according to Brian Patsy, president and CEO of Streamline Health. “With Streamline Health’s document workflow solutions integrated with their Epic clinical systems, Columbus Children’s Hospital will be able to gain enhanced and cost-effective business process improvements that improve accuracy, increase productivity and maximize ROI.”
About Columbus Children's Hospital
Columbus Children's Hospital is a healthcare network that provides wellness, preventive, diagnostic, treatment and rehabilitative care for infants, children, adolescents and selected adult patients. A medical staff of more than 900 and a hospital staff of nearly 5,000 provide state-of-the-art pediatric care for more than 700,000 patient visits annually. Children's houses the Department of Pediatrics of The Ohio State University College of Medicine and Ohio's first Level 1 Pediatric Trauma Center. Columbus Children's Research Institute is one of the top ten National Institutes of Health-funded freestanding pediatric research facilities. More than 75,000 consumers receive health and wellness education each year and affiliation agreements with nearly 100 institutions allow more than 1,700 students and 500 residents to receive training at Children's. The preferred pediatric provider in Central Ohio since 1892, Columbus Children's Hospital is dedicated exclusively to full-service health care for children - serving every child for every reason. More information is available by calling (614) 722-KIDS (5437) or through www.columbuschildrens.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 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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