News Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Cincinnati, Ohio, December 4, 2007 — Streamline Health Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ Capital Market: STRM), a leading provider of integrated document management and workflow solutions, today announced that it has reached an agreement with Emergis Inc. (TSX: EME), under which Emergis is integrating Streamline Health’s accessANYwareTM document management repository and document workflow applications into its Oacis Electronic Medical Record (EMR) solution. The integrated solution addresses clinicians’ need for immediate access to patient records in hybrid environments, where electronic health records still cohabit with paper.
“Our partnership with Streamline Health underscores our continuous commitment to offer clinicians advanced capabilities to improve patient care” said Mark Groper, Executive Vice-President, Health – Public Sector at Emergis. “With the integration of Streamline Health’s document management capability into our EMR solution, we will be supporting health professionals and health systems as they shift progressively from a paper-intensive environment towards electronic health records.”
Streamline Health’s applications offer document management and workflow capabilities that allow health care professionals to electronically capture and route any kind of document, clinical or otherwise, related to a patient and store the information in a document repository. This application complements Emergis’ Oacis EMR solution as clinicians will be able to use a single integrated software solution, which combines scanned and electronic data records to access, view and browse patient information online and in real-time, through the Oacis Clinical Viewer.
“Our customers are facing challenges when managing today’s hybrid patient records, encompassing both electronic patient data and documents,” said Brian Patsy, President and CEO of Streamline Health. “The integration of our document workflow applications into Oacis offers superior clinical data management capabilities. By combining our health solutions, we are enhancing the health delivery workflow, speeding up the sharing of information among health professionals and contributing to improved patient safety and to the quality and efficiency of health services.”
Thanks to its open-architecture, scalability and end-user configurability, the Oacis Interoperable Technology Platform serves as the bridge that unifies disparate systems across the enterprise and offers the most flexible health care-specific infrastructure available. At its core, the Oacis Clinical Data Repository is the “gold standard” for collecting and presenting comprehensive patient information at the point of care.
About Emergis
Emergis is an IT leader in Canada that focuses on the health and financial services sectors. It develops and manages solutions that automate transactions and the secure exchange of information to increase the process efficiency and quality of service of its customers. Emergis has expertise in electronic health-related claims processing, health record systems, pharmacy management solutions, cash management and loan document processing and registration. In Canada, Emergis delivers solutions to major insurance companies, top financial institutions, government agencies, hospitals, large corporations, real estate lawyers and notaries and 3,100 pharmacies. Its electronic health record solutions are also delivered in the U.S. and Australia. The Company's shares (TSX: EME) are included in the S&P/TSX Composite Index.
For more information on Oacis EMR, please visit http://www.emergis.com/solutions/health/clinical_care/default.aspx
About Streamline Health Solutions, Inc.
Streamline Health is a leading supplier of workflow and document management tools, applications and services that assist healthcare organizations and strategic business partner’s customers 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 (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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