News Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
T.J. Samson Community Hospital Seeks Secure, Immediate Access to Patient Data Through Implementation of Streamline Health's Hosted Document Workflow Solutions
CINCINNATI, Ohio July 24, 2006 — Streamline Health Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ Capital Market: STRM), a leading provider of integrated document management and workflow solutions, today announced that T.J. Samson Community Hospital, based in Glasgow, Kentucky, selected Streamline Health’s document workflow solutions for their Health Information Management (HIM) business process initiatives to achieve operational improvements. By implementing the workflow solutions from Streamline Health, T.J. Samson aims to improve the flow of information across the hospital and enhance the quality of healthcare to its patients. Streamline Health will host the T.J. Samson document management and workflow solutions in Streamline Health’s Hosting Center based in Cincinnati, Ohio, and will integrate with the hospital’s legacy Siemens clinical application.
Remotely-Hosted Option Facilitates Implementation of Document Workflow Solutions
By selecting Streamline Health’s hosted option, T.J. Samson Community Hospital, a 196-bed acute care hospital serving Barren and surrounding counties in South Central Kentucky, is able to facilitate the implementation of Streamline Health’s document workflow solutions within their HIM department and gain access to 24x7 dedicated technical support staff at Streamline Health for support of the applications. “Streamline Health’s remotely-hosted solution provided us with a flexible and secure method to achieve our goal of enhancing how we process patient information, which ultimately serves our patients with more informed healthcare decisions,” said Susan Garrett, Director of Health Information Management at T.J. Samson Community Hospital. “We anticipate that these workflow solutions will create efficiencies within the Health Information Management department and beyond, generating cost savings and a quicker response time.”
Since 1929, T.J. Samson Community Hospital has continued to expand its services within the region. The hospital will use Streamline Health’s Health Information Management solutions to support its growth, increase the accuracy of information flows, and ensure a continuous delivery of excellent patient care throughout its community. Streamline Health’s workflow solutions will provide T.J. Samson with a document-based repository of historical health information conveniently accessed with a single log-on. Through Streamline Health’s solutions, T.J. Samson Hospital will be able to easily retrieve all forms of patient information, whether generated electronically or from paper. These applications also alleviate process friction points, caused by the various disparate technologies used across the hospital, to enhance interoperability and increase the flow of information throughout the facility.
The Streamline Health solutions include the following:
- accessANYware™-HIM provides enterprise access to a patient's medical records to better coordinate patient care.
- Completion Workflow expedites the completion of the medical record and accelerates the completion of billing services.
- 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.
- Document Capture Solutions deliver high speed production scanning and indexing as well as departmental document capture and management.
Streamline Health’s core HIM solutions look to generate operating efficiencies at T.J. Samson Community Hospital, including: improved chart deficiency management; more cost-effective coding and abstracting; timely release of information requests; and streamlining of other business processes across the enterprise.
"By selecting Streamline Health's solutions, T.J. Samson Community Hospital will gain a greater capability to generate faster turnaround of patient information, improve productivity and reduce costs within the Health Information Management department, commented Brian Patsy, President and CEO of Streamline Health. Through the use of Streamline Health's remotely-hosted services, T.J. Samson will benefit from a quicker implementation process and a lower startup investment, enabling them to achieve their goals sooner and gain a positive impact on their business processes."
About T.J. Samson Community Hospital
A regional health care provider based in Glasgow, Kentucky since 1929, T.J. Samson Community Hospital serves the region by providing acute care; preventive testing and treatment; community outreach activities; and partnerships with local health care providers, civic organizations and public schools. T. J. Samson takes pride in being good stewards of available resources and utilizing them to anticipate and meet the health needs of the region by promoting health in its communities and delivering quality, appropriate and compassionate care. To find out more about T.J. Samson Community Hospital, visit their website at: www.tjsamson.org.
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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