News Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Cincinnati, Ohio, July 17, 2006 – Streamline Health Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ Capital Market: STRM) today announced that Nassau University Medical Center in East Meadow, New York will implement Streamline Health’s accessANYware™, business process management solutions for its Health Information Management workflows and document management requirements. Using Streamline Health’s solutions, Nassau University Medical Center will maximize employee productivity, accelerate cash flows and improve operational efficiencies enabling them to focus on quality patient care.
The cornerstone of Streamline Health’s enterprise workflow and document management system, accessANYware™, offers Nassau University Medical Center immediate and simultaneous viewing of paper-based medical record documents from the same workstation and screen display beginning with the point of care. A single log-on enables quick and convenient access to all forms of patient information, whether electronically generated or paper documents. This allows the healthcare professionals at Nassau to utilize technology without signing in and out of multiple applications. As a Level I Trauma Center in the state of New York, Nassau University Medical Center will continue to offer a high level of service to its patients with the implementation of Streamline Health’s workflows and document management solutions while reaching new levels of operational efficiencies that will ultimately improve cash flow.
As part of the implementation, Nassau’s current repository of document images will be migrated from its existing vendor through Streamline Health’s Document Conversion Services. More importantly, Streamline Health will seamlessly integrate its solutions with Nassau University Medical Center’s existing information systems, including their clinical information system, Sunrise™ Clinical Manager from Eclipsys Corporation, supporting various aspects of interoperability across the enterprise.
“The cost savings are very real and will be achieved through measurable improvements as we gain momentum from the implementation of Streamline Health’s solutions,” said Christine Forman, vice president and chief information officer at Nassau University Medical Center. “We have real-time access to accurate patient information that is critical in delivering the best possible patient care while realizing the impact of performance excellence throughout our enterprise with increased operational efficiencies.”
J. Brian Patsy, president and chief executive officer of Streamline Health, stated, “We are very pleased to deliver enterprise business process solutions to allow access to fragmented health information, to optimize the flow of information throughout Nassau University Medical Center. Our workflows and document management solutions address the challenges for Nassau University Medical Center today and tomorrow, giving them the flexibility to adjust to the changing needs of their business.”
About Nassau University Medical Center
Nassau University Medical Center located in East Meadow, New York is operated by Nassau Health Care Corporation, a 1,500-bed health care system, which includes a 631-bed tertiary care teaching hospital, an 889-bed skilled nursing facility and 7 community health centers. For more than 65 years, the Medical Center, which is affiliated with the North Shore-LIJ Health System and the Health Sciences Center of the State University of New York at Stony Brook, has maintained a strong commitment to medical education and has offered a proud tradition of service and caring to the people of Long Island. Nassau University Medical Center has one of the leading Departments of Emergency Medicine in the nation. Nassau offers Long Island's top Level 1 Trauma Center, which treats more than 50 percent of all serious traumas in Nassau County. Today its staff of approximately 3,500 treats more than 82,000 persons annually in the NUMC Emergency Department and more than 200,000 in over 85 specialized clinics.
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 tools and technologies for automating document-intensive environments, including document workflow, document management, e-forms, portal connectivity, 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 http://www.streamlinehealth.net.
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